Korg Pa588 Digital Piano and Arranger Keyboard

Korg Pa588

 is ideal for the musician, composer, performer and entertainer alike with Korg Pa588's stellar features including 88-key RH3 graded hammer piano action and the piano sound of the C-720 Concert Digital Piano. RX (Real eXperience) technology is used to achieve stunning sounds, which is based on the EDS (Extended Definition Synthesis) that powers the popular M3. Programming is simple with the TouchView interface, while realistic articulation can be controlled with the 4-way joystick.

Four stereo processors provide up to 128 effects with a 3-band parametric EQ available on each track. Korg Pa588 has over 320 styles programmed by some of the leading arrangers in the world each with up to 8 parts, 4 variations, and 3 intros/count-ins/fills/breaks/endings. Performance can be custom tailored to your specifications with the Tap Tempo, Fade In/Out and Manual Bass features.

Create accurate guitar parts with picking, strum, chokes, slides, hammer-ons and guitar-specific artifacts while enhancing guitar tracks of standard MIDI-files.

Expand your musical database for live performance with the SongBook feature with pre-programmed settings such as Sounds, Style, Performance, Volumes, Muted Tracks, FX settings, Easy Edit, STS settings, and Master Transpose for every song you need to play. Back up your data to SD or MMC cards and uses USB or MIDI for connection with your computer.

Intuitive Layout
Everything from the 88-key RH3 graded hammer piano action keyboard to the touch screen LCD is designed for an easy working experience.

Effects
Korg Pa588's four stereo master effect processors provide hundreds of effects, including reverb, delay, chorus, and much more for added richness and depth.

Styles
Hundreds of styles in a wide variety of genres are included to give you the full power of a backup band without the hassles.

Giving you two 16-track sequencers to work with, the XDS Double Sequencer lets you play one sequence while loading another, perform DJ-style cross fades, or play two sequences simultaneously.

SongBook
The SongBook function of Korg Pa588 is a programmable musical database that lets you instantly access all the necessary settings for a needed song - great for taking requests.

Full Controls
Everything from a pitch/modulation joystick to assignable sliders, switches, and pads give you full, precise control over the system. A damper pedal input, assignable pedal input, are provided for hands-off control.

MIDI and USB plus SD/MMC
Korg Pa588 has both MIDI and USB connectivity with an SD/MMC card slot for data backup.

Keyboard:
88 Keys; RH3 Graded Hammer Action with Velocity

Polyphony:
80 Note Polyphony

System:
OPOS (Objective Portable Operating System) and RX (Real eXperience) Technology
Multitasking
Load While Play Feature
Upgradable Operative System
SSD Solid State Disk

Tone Generator:
EDS (Extended Definition Synthesis) 80 Voices, 80 Oscillators
Filters with Resonance
3 band EQ for Each Track

Effects:
4 Stereo Digital Multi-Effect Systems
124 Effects Types
Final Semi-Parametric 3-Band EQ

Sounds-Drum Kits:
880 Sounds, including a Stereo Piano and GM Level 2 compatible Sounds, 56 Drum Kits
User area: 128 Sounds, 64 Drum Kits
Realtime control: Assignable Slider, Switch
Full editing of Sounds and Drum Kits

Styles:
More than 320 Preloaded Styles, SSD-resident, Freely Reconfigurable
Up to 448 Available Style Locations
64 User Styles - 8 Style tracks, 4 Single Touch Settings and 1 Style Performance Per Style
Guitar Track, Parallel and Fixed NTT
Compatible with Old "i-Series" and Pa Series Style Format
Style Record with Step Record, Track and Event Edit Functions
Style Controls: 4 Variations, 3 Fills, 3 Intros, 3 Endings, Synchro Start/Stop, Tap Tempo/Reset, Fade In/Out, Bass Inversion, Manual Bass, Tempo Lock, Memory, Accompaniment/Real Time Track Balance Volume, Accompaniment Mute, Drum Mapping, Snare & Kick Designation, Single Touch

Performance:
256 Realtime Performance Locations

Single Touch Settings (STS):
Memorize Realtime Track Settings
Up to 4 x 512 Styles
Up to 4 x SongBook Entries
All Programmable

Realtime Tracks:
4 Keyboard tracks (Upper 1, 2, 3, Lower)
4 Pad Tracks

Song Play:
Patented XDS Crossfade Dual Sequencer Player
2 Sequencers with Separate Select, Start/Stop, Home, Rewind and Fast Forward controls
Balance Control
Lyrics Data Can Be Displayed On-Screen
Markers
Jukebox Function
Compatible with SMF (Formats 0 and 1)

Sequencer:
16 Track, Up to 200,000 Events
Full-Featured Sequencer
Quick Record (Backing Sequence), Multitrack and Step Record Functions
SMF Native Format

SongBook:
Fully Programmable Music Database, Based on Styles, SMF, Karaoke, with Automatic Selection of Style Play and Song Play Modes
User-Definable Custom Lists
Filtering Options

Compatibility:
"i-Series" Model Styles
Pa series: Style, Performance, Program/Sound, Song, SongBook, Pad

Multi Pad:
4 Assignable Pads + Stop Button Pad Record Function

Help System:
Hypertextual, Contextual, Multilingual

General Controls:
Play Piano Button, Master Volume, Real Time-Acc/Seq Balance Volume, Ensemble, Octave Transpose, Master Transpose, Style Change, Split, Quarter Tone Arabic Scale, User Scale Memorized Inside Performance/STS
Realtime controllers: Joystick (pitch + modulation), 1 Assignable Slider, 1 Assignable Switch, Dial, Up/+, Down/-

Control Inputs:
Damper Pedal, Assignable Pedal/Footswitch

Analog Output:
Unbalanced Jack Left/Mono, Right, Headphones

Analog Input:
2 Unbalanced Line In Jacks

MIDI:
In, Out standard Midi connectors
USB to Midi using the USB Device port
Individual track assignment
8 user definable MIDI Setups

USB:
1 USB Device connection (1.1 Full Speed)

Card Slot:
SD (Secure Digital) Card and MultiMedia Card (MMC) Memory Devices

Display:
320 x 240 pixels, Monochrome TouchView Graphic Touch Screen

Amplification:
2 x 15 W
Fixed EQ

Speakers:
4 Speakers (Two Bass and Two Tweeter) in Bass Reflex Box

Included Accessories:
DC 12V external power supply
Stand
Half Damping Pedal
Robust Speaker System
Manual
AC Adapter
Music Stand
CD-ROM

Options:
Expression/Volume Pedal (KORG EXP-2, KORG XVP-10)
Damper Pedal (KORG DS-1H)
Switch Pedal (KORG PS-1)

Physical:
Dimensions (without music rest): 56.6 x 17 x 6.3 Inches (1438 x 432 x 160mm) (W x D x H)
Weight: 67.24 Pounds (30.5kg)

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