Korg Pa600 61-Key Arranger Keyboard

The Korg Pa600 gives you a massive sound set and 360 styles — plus, it’s expandable with custom sounds.

Stunning Sound

With 50 years of experience, Korg has consistently set the bar for sound quality in performance instruments, and have been relied on by musicians around the world all the while. The Pa600 gives you a rich, detailed, natural sound with instruments from almost every genre; exploding with depth, subtlety, and accuracy. With DNC (Defined Nuance Control) and RX (Real eXperience), you can add easily-controlled natural sounds and gestures that are part of playing a real instrument, such as guitar fret noise, horn glissandos, and mechanical key sounds. Over 950 expressive sounds are included, including a refreshed GM sound set and 64 drum kits. There is also an amazing multilayer stereo acoustic piano that was accurately sampled from a Concert Grand, and includes String and Damper pedal Resonance. Sounds are fully customizable to your tastes, and your changes can be saved for fast locating and use in your performances.

One very exciting feature added to the Pa600 is the option of purchasing musical sounds and styles from different regions around the world. 96MB of dedicated memory allows many instruments to be added to the Pa600 sound engine, and used with styles that were developed to represent many of the popular musical styles of certain countries.

Enhancing Effects
Great sound is more than just the quality of the PCM. For many years, Korg has produced outstanding studio quality effects that are simply breath-taking. The Pa600 has four Stereo Master Effect processors with 125 of these effects including standard FX such as reverb, delay and chorus as well as some of the universally acclaimed REMS guitar-based effects for authentic guitar tone.
Each Track features EQ with Low, Mid and High controls. A custom track EQ can be memorized in the general preferences for the Song Play mode. This will help sculpt the sounds to your personal taste for any MIDI file you play. Need a lighter bass track? Save the desired equalization, and the Bass will stay light with all the subsequent Songs.

A limiter and final 4-band parametric EQ, have been added to the sound output of the Pa600. Everything can be processed by this powerful and musically refined EQ, easily adapting the sound to your musical taste or adjusting sound in problematic live environments.

Styles
The Pa600 delivers a new set of great-sounding and and vibrant styles, programmed by some of the leading arrangers in the world, highlighting their unique musical strengths. The result is hundreds of included Styles that provide unparalleled realism and detail. Covering an expanded range of musical genres, the Pa600 provides styles for almost every occasion. If you require a special Style collection, simply record and edit your own styles on board.
We add further realism to your performance with four Fills, Break, three Intros and three Endings. More flexibility is added by the choice of different transposition tables to suit any instrument characteristic, and the stunning Guitar Mode 2 adds a totally new perspective to how realistic Guitar tracks can sound. If you need both hands to play a solo passage, record your chord sequence and let the Pa600’s Chord Sequencer play it for you.

Compact, yet powerful
The Pa600 is one of the easiest arrangers to carry around. While its size might appear compact, the power of the onboard, exceptionally high-quality custom designed amplification system is anything but small. The 2 x 15-watt amplifiers drive two loudspeakers in a bass-reflex box to generate a powerful listening experience.

Play any song, and view it as traditional music notation
The player on board the Pa600 can read MIDI, KAR and MP3 files. It can also read lyrics and chords from most of these files, and add markers on-the-fly to MIDI files. Traditional score viewing is also available for those who prefer to read music.
The Score Viewer displays the lead track (or any other track) as clear and plain traditional musical notations with notes or chords, together with lyrics and chord abbreviations. Chord names can also be seen in different languages (English and Italian). For music learners, we also added a function to show note names next to each note.

Easy to use

With all the technological power that’s packed inside, it was vital that we also made the Pa600 easy to understand and use. Your experience using the Pa600 should be intuitive, musical, fast and foolproof. The panel layout has been simplified, and the gorgeous color TouchView Display lets you simply think, point and click for easy and intuitive navigation and performance.
So that musicians of all levels can make great music quickly, there are two interface modes: Easy and Expert. Easy mode shows only the most important controls while keeping a clean and straightforward interface, useful for beginners or playing live, while in Expert mode, you have full editing control. Nothing stands between you and a stellar performance.

Switches are assignable so your live performances work the way you want, and when you don’t remember where a file, song or style was saved, just use the Search feature to let the Pa600 find it for you.

SongBook

This exciting feature was developed to make your life easier while playing live. The SongBook is a Musical Database that’s completely user programmable, containing all the settings needed to play a particular song. You only have to search for the title of the song you would like to play, select it and hit “Play”. The SongBook can use styles, MIDI files, or MP3s, and can immediately recall settings such as Song Title, Genre, Artist, Tempo, Volumes, Sounds, Muted Tracks, FX settings, Easy Edit, STS*, Master Transpose and more. Everything that you need to play your song perfectly is in the SongBook; a useful musical feature that is unique to Korg.

*STS – Single Touch Settings is a memory that recalls sounds for all the real time tracks (Upper 1, 2, 3 & Lower).

With the SongBook Editor you can easily view, create and edit your KORG Pa-Series SongBook entries and custom lists using a Windows based computer.

NOTE: Windows XP-Vista-7-8® compatible

Model
2 versions“Pa600 – Standard”
“Pa600QT -Quarter Tone”

Keyboard
61 keys with Velocity
Sounds
More than 950 (including Stereo Piano and GM 2 Sounds)

64 Drum KitsPa600QT comes preloaded with Sounds and Styles to suit a variety of Middle Eastern music tastes including Persian, Arabic and Turkish.User256 Sounds

128 Drum KitsTone Generator128 Oscillators (max polyphony 128 voices) – Filters with ResonancePCM User Memory96 MB
Styles

More than 360 preloaded Styles, freely reconfigurableUserUp to 1,200 available Style locations including the Favorite/User banksStructureEight Style tracks, 4 Single Touch Settings and one Style Performance per StyleStyle controls3 Intros, 4 Variations, 4 Fills, Break, 3 Endings, Autofill, Synchro Start/Stop, Tap Tempo/Reset, Manual Bass, Bass Inversion, Memory, Accompaniment Mute, Designations, STS Mode – Chord Sequencer

Guitar Mode 2
Parallel and Fixed NTT, Style Record with Step Record, Track and Event Edit functions
Effects & EQ4 Stereo Master FX / 125 Effects types
Three band EQ for each track – Articulations

Limiter – Master 4 band Parametric EQOthersDynamic Nuance Control (DNC) Technology
Full editing of Sounds and Drum Kits
Realtime sound control using Assignable Switches

Controllers
Joystick – 2 Assignable SwitchesUser SamplingNo Exist
Performance/STS320 Realtime Performance locations
STS: Memorize Realtime tracks
Up to 4 x Styles, up to 4 x SongBook entries
My Setting special

Performance
Realtime TracksFour Keyboard tracks (Upper 1, 2, 3, Lower)Pads4 Pad tracks + Stop button – Pad RecordSong PlaySingle Player with Select, Start/Stop, Home, Rewind and Fast Forward controls
Jukebox function – Compatible with SMF (formats 0 and 1) and MP3 with Vocal Remover –
Lyrics (compatible with CDG), Score, MarkerDisplay7” 800 x 480 TFT Graphical Color TouchView

Sequencer
Quick Record (Backing Sequence), Multitrack and Step Record functions
Full featured sequencer – 16 tracks – Up to 100.000 events – SMF formatSong BookFully programmable music database, based on Styles, SMF, Karaoke, MP3 with automatic selection of Style Play and Song Play modes – User-definable custom lists – Filtering optionsSearchYes for Style, Song, Performance, SongBook, Sound and Lyrics TXTCompatibility for Sound Data“i-Series”: Styles only
“Pa series”: Style, Performance, Sound, PCM, Song, SongBook and Pad
General ControlsMaster Volume, Real Time-Acc/Seq Balance Volume, Ensemble, Octave Transpose,
Master Transpose, Fade In/Out, Tempo Lock, Style Change – Quarter Tone Arabic Scale,

User Scale memorized inside Performance/STS, Search, Lyrics, Score, Maker, Dial, Tempo, Metronome, Split
ConnectionsControl InputsDamper Pedal, Assignable Pedal/FootswitchLine OutUnbalanced Jack Left/Mono, Right, Headphones
2 Unbalanced Line In JacksMIDIIn, Out MIDI connectors – USB to Midi using the USB Device port Individual track assignment – 8 user definable MIDI PresetUSBType A (TO DEVICE) x 1: 2.0 Hi Speed Type B (TO HOST) x 1: 2.0 Hi Speed
Speaker SystemAmplification15W x 2Speakers100 mm x 2 Double Cone Speakers in Bass Reflex Box

Power
Power SupplyAC 100-240 VPower Consumption20 WattDimensions
(W x D x H)1,030 x 378 x 127 mm (without music rest)Weight11 kg (without music rest)AccessoriesOwner’s Manual, Music Stand, AC Cable

*Accessory Disc including Video manuals, PDF manuals, USB-MIDI Drivers has been removed since June 2020.

Please see here for the video manuals.
https://www.korg.com/products/synthesizers/pa600/page_4.php

For other items, please download from here.
https://www.korg.com/us/support/download/product/0/90/OptionsExpression/Volume Pedal (KORG EXP-2, KORG XVP-10)
Damper Pedal (KORG DS-1H)
Switch Pedal (KORG PS-1, PS-3)