KORG PA500 NEWS !!!!!

piotrek_muzyk · Post by **piotrek_muzyk** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 8:45 pm

http://korg.com/gear/info.asp?a_prod_no ... egory_id=1

AVI6520 · Post by **AVI6520** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 9:12 pm

wow....

How much?

It dos not have a mic? Is it?

Rob Sherratt · Post by **Rob Sherratt** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 9:12 pm

Hey,

That's so new it doesn't even feature on www.korgpa.com yet!

Best regards,
Rob

piotrek_muzyk · Post by **piotrek_muzyk** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 9:42 pm

http://www.korg.co.uk/products/professi ... _pa500.asp

AVI6520 · Post by **AVI6520** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:03 pm

HI "piotrek_muzyk"

HAVE A PA2X and still looking on the pa500?....
How dare you?....
Be careful that your PA2X will not know, and do to you some "frozen" faces,

[KORG- we found the problem with the PA2X, "she's" jealous....

]

piotrek_muzyk · Post by **piotrek_muzyk** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:38 pm

AVI6520 wrote:
HAVE A PA2X and still looking on the pa500?....
How dare you?....
Be careful that your PA2X will not know, and do to you some "frozen" f

It;s only news ;d My friend

piotrek_muzyk · Post by **piotrek_muzyk** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 3:43 pm

http://korgpa.com/pa_root/en/products/p ... fo.html?en

Rob Sherratt · Post by **Rob Sherratt** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 4:33 pm

So, it seems the Pa500 is based on the Pa800, many of the same facilities, but with sampling and ability to load user samples removed. Is this a fair summary?

Best regards,
Rob

BasariStudios · Post by **BasariStudios** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 6:44 pm

Rob, i think its fair for many users...take me for example, i have many synths,
i sold my PA800 and now i have no arranger. I am planing on getting AUDYA
but only for pleasure, just for home and studio.
The other thing is, i see many people in here play and make money with
PA50 just as a drum machine, nothing else, they use other synths for solo.
Now, for me personally the PA800 is a great machine. I'll stuck it up with
styles, i dont need samples in there, get one of my workstations and go play.
And a lot cheeper too...why would i keep PA800 when i wont use sampling
and all of the samples i need i already have ready in another workstation.
The most combination i see in USA especially us orientals and Balkan people
is PA50&LE.

george kaye · Post by **george kaye** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 8:37 pm

I had a chance to play the PA500 and PA2XPRO yesterday at the NAMM show. The 500 is a very nice keyboard for $1499.00 here in the US. Like the PA50, I can load many middle eastern styles created for the 50 and 80 that didn't require new samples and I can save everything on SD cards. The sounds and styles are from the PA800. The PA2XPRO is being shipped to stores this week and the 500 will be at the end of the month.

Rob Sherratt · Post by **Rob Sherratt** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 11:09 pm

I'm sure it will be good for the masses, and I can understand that Korg need an entry of their second generation Pa technology at this price point to compete with all the PSR's in the shops. Let's be clear about what the Pa500 means for the sound creation pros on the forum, though... specifically, what can't you do with a Pa500 that you can do on a Pa800?

The Pa500 apparently has no USER SAMPLE capability. There is no USER SAMPLE RAM. Therefore you can not load any Pa800 USER SOUNDS that use USER SAMPLES. You can not load any USER STYLES that depend on USER SOUNDS that in turn depend on USER SAMPLES.

Just so long as this is what you want! I will bide my time to get a Pa2x or Pa800 once the next OS is released.

Meanwhile it seems that a "Style Compatibility" coversion tool will be even more badly needed

Mick - are you listening?

piotrek_muzyk · Post by **piotrek_muzyk** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 11:31 pm

george kaye wrote: The 500 is a very nice keyboard for $1499.00 here in the US.

Are you siure ?? Only 1499USD ??

rikkisbears · Post by **rikkisbears** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 12:09 am

Hi Nedim,
are they finally releasing it??
I first heard about it in April 2007, Ketron seem to anounce stuff early , & then it can take a year or more before the product actually becomes available.
I sure hope they've updated some of the functions from their prior top of the line model the sd1+.
SD1 lacks some real basics when it comes to style creation/editing. No event list editing, no way of exporting & importing style parts as midifile except for using EMC, & that method has it's limitations also..
As for the midi, it was archaic.

The audio loop functions sound like they're going to be pretty amazing on the Audya . I haven't seen any specific details on it yet though.
[quote="Nedim"]i sold my PA800 and now i have no arranger. I am planing on getting AUDYA

BasariStudios · Post by **BasariStudios** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 12:13 am

I think its gonna be somewhere in April so i have to wait.

Bernie9 · Post by **Bernie9** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 7:31 pm

I read a report from a dealer who visited Ketron, and their reply was " It still is in prototype stage, and won't be in production for some time" I wouldn't count on April.
Bernie