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add new feature on assignable switch half bar on fill in,

If KORG designers in Italy were to take the PA800 series and improve on it the following are my ideas for areas of improvement. Like to hear yours.

1. DNC is great but sounds are behind the competition (TYROS3) and even behind KORG's M3
2. Button layout needs an ergonomic redesign.
a. Spreading them out more
b. Illuminated buttons for better display in the dark
c. Larger touch sensitive multipads as in M3. Live performance with current pads lineup is a drag.

3. More memory translates to more creativity. Many musicians especially from the near and mid east use MANY samples for creating sounds and styles.

4. Allow user upgrade of RAM chipset.
5. Keep the big speakers.
6. Software integration is the future. Korg needs to invest in this area or it will loose to the competition. For the arranger series Korg needs to develop style management and creation software. Also Globol settings, sounds, programs, styles etc. should easily be managed from software.

7. Improve screen resolution and sensitivity (accuracy)
8. More user banks for sounds, styles, performances.
9. Manual is useless. The section on sampler is almost non existent.

tonsy wrote:add new feature on assignable switch half bar on fill in,

you already have the facility to create multiple time signatures.

oracle wrote:DNC is great but sounds are behind the competition (TYROS3) and even behind KORG's M3

Hi Oracle,

I was a bit surprised to read this. I have both the Pa2x and M3/73 with EXB_RADIAS, and co-incidentally and not purposefully, I had earlier posted a message on the M3 part of Korg Forums saying the reverse. In my experience, the new DNC sounds on the Pa2x with legato triggering sound better than what you can do at present on the M3.

I wonder whether the Master EQ and speaker setup and reverb settings with external studio monitors is perhaps lacking in some way on your Pa keyboard? I found that Master EQ settings with MID boosted by 3dB and HIGH boosted by 6dB gave a better sound with studio monitors. I also raised the Reverb offset in Global settings slightly. I think many sounds on the Pa800/Pa2x have been set up for inclusion in a recording mix (when you need to avoid reverb on individual instruments, and add it back into the final mix) whereas when you play live you need to add keyboard reverb at source.

Best regards,
Rob

In Record mode, i could use a Stop/start feature to audition the style from any given measure. At the moment, if you want to hear a specific measure, it takes you back to the beginning and it playsback the entire loop, until it reaches where you wanted to. Would've been nice, if we could set a starting point for the loop...

a way to bind pads to the styles and a way to select the pads with the style FX group!

MetroFM wrote:a way to bind pads to the styles and a way to select the pads with the style FX group!

As i know pads are bound with styles, every style can use different pads and pads use style fx.
I was thinking of something more revolutionary: crossfading styles in volume and tempo.
I know it is hard to do because of fx and different sounds but it could be done if it starts with tempo transition and volume going down, at the lowest volume change sounds and fx and then bring volume up. That could be useful for people who don't want to make pause in playing (including me).

master eq is just a thing that is not necesery because we alredy have a eq on each track even on a mic. so my opinion is to have master multi band compresor on korg pa series...

Hi....i'm a new member with a rustily english language....hope that my post isn't on wrong place... ....

I have a no simply solution for individually switching on or off the harmony voices......for example during a play of one song, you need more then one harmony voice.....for a one part of song you can set a one individual voice (for example third above or +3 applied to V1) and for a other part of that same song you need a fourth below (-4) that is applied to individual voice V2...but if you need a fast switching from V1 to V2 during a playing of one song you must have opened a voice procesor preset page in global menu so as you can switch them on/off individualy and that is a complicated .....why the simply switching on/off the V1 V2 and V3 not in a list of Assignable Switch function for assignable switch 1&2 or for a EC5...

Sorry for a long post.... .....

Hi muzz,

Although there is not an assignable function to do exactly what you want, a similar thing can be achieved a slightly different way as follows.

As you know, you can program up the settings you need in any number of presets. (Global -> Voice Processor Preset). Then from the Audio tab on the main menu, you can select any Voice Processor preset from the list.

Then the currently selected Voice Processor preset can be saved into either a User Style or a Performance. Then in consecutively numbered User Style or Performance slots you can save a variant with a different Voice Processor preset. Then you can use the assignable "Style up/down" or "Performance up/down" function to step up or down between diffferent consecutive Style/ Peerformance configurations under the control of a footswitch.

Best regards,
Rob

Hi Rob.....thank's for the your time for reply.....

Yes, it can be done like that....but.....i think that is not a solution....when you change performance it will change a program (sound in upper) or with changing a style it will need too much duplicated styles and i could not use in that way....

If happen that you play one song, for example in Em, settings of harmony are on scalic hamony mode root E and type min1 and use a in one part of song harmony voice V1 adjusted and in other part of that song you use a V2 voice.....then you change a note....in same style playin' a song in Gm....then you need for example same settings of V1 and V2 but you need to change root to G and type min3 its a little complicated to have all the time a opened a Voice processor preset page in global meny to do this change......

That can be saved in voice processor preset's but there will be a too much presets (12root x 6 type's = 72 preset's).....ok.....let say that is not TOO much but if you save for each of that 72 preset's V1on V2off V3off, than V1off V2on V3off etc..... that is too much preset's......it can be reduced for the preset's that will not be used....but...it's a big job......

It would be much simpler when will be posible to add to a list of Assignable Switch function switching on/off for V1, V2 and V3 individual voice to use with assignable switch 1&2 or EC5.....

And would be perfectly to have on main screen, on Mic tab possibility of changing Root and Type for selected preset.....

Sorry again for long post caused by my bad english..........thank's

Sorry....forgot to write....

On main screen, mic tab have a EQ for mic....maybe that EQ is not need...when EQ for microphone is adjusted once and saved to Voice processor setup i think that is not need to have for fast adjustment...several of this combination can be saved for a other user's of voice processor....sorry if wrong....

To a list of Assignable Switch function can be add a voice processor preset up or/and down and can be added too the list a voice procesor setup up/down

I hope that will be a updated text font's for a support txt files for cyrilic and central european......

Best regards....

Hi Muzz,

There is no solution apart from what I suggested earlier. I guess you are requesting a software/product change, but other owners like you on this user forum can't help you with that. Also Korg don't respond on this forum to requests for new features. My guess is that if these sort of changes were implemented by Korg, it would be on a new product.

Maybe you could try using a separate vocal processor unit, see if that has the configuration options you want?

Best regards,
Rob

Hi Rob.....well.....then....cold beer and waiting for new product....

Thank's for help....

Best regards.....

Hi Gang

Having just changed from a PA1X to the PA2x I miss the 3 assignable switches that the PA1X had. I used this extensively for muting sounds 1,2 or 3 in a performance when playing live because I found it easier when trying to press 2 sounds to mute at once on the touch screen.

As you know these switches have been moved over to the far left and now there's only 2 of them, and there are occasions when I want to mute sound 1 and unmute sounds 2 & 3 at the same time which I could do successfully on the PA1X by pressing all 3 buttons at once, and that's difficult to do on the touch screen.

Obviously Korg can't put another button on the keyboard but maybe some of the other buttons could be programmed to allow this. Or am I being niave.

I would appreciate any views?

Bruce