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Hello,

my name is Jürgen Sartorius, I'm a PA2X demonstrator in Germany,
checking out the PA2X the last weeks.

Sorry for my bad english - here are all the (translated) facts
"What's new in the PA2X against the PA1X?" - it's a lot...

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PA2Xpro – what’s new against PA1Xpro?

More compact: 121x37x13 about 18kg

New wooden Edges, very elegant

Tilt-Display, motorized

More sensible Display – more easy to touch

Possible to catch sliders (volumes, Numbers) on the display and change them!

Easy -Mode: shows only the most important functions for live-Performance,
because of that bigger display-„knobs“

76 keys are weighted new!

2 new USB-2.0 Ports for USB-Sticks, Floppy etc.

third USB Port: supports USB to MIDI

Intros / Endings adjusted more logical (Intros, Variations, Fills, Endings)

New: Ending 3 Button (every Style now with a third Ending!)

1 additional Fader for MP3 Volume and the 9th Drawbar!
(also to handle and to move on the touch display like PA800)

new LYRICS-Button, leading immediately to the Lyrics page

3 new MIC-Buttons: ON/OFF, HARMONY, EFFECT

MIC ist now phantom power supperted (48V)

Nearly every Button has an LED!

2 new assignable Switches

Harddisk already mounted – like PA1Xpro Elite

128 - 256MB Sampling RAM – the eightfold Memory!
(up to 12.000 Samples possible - Pa1Xpro about 2.500)

EDS + RX Soundengine (M3)
120 polyphony

2x MP3-Player & Recorder
MP3: Time-Stretching & Pitch-Shifting
Recording: possible Bitrates from 96 up to 256 kb/s

Guitar-Modus: Style-Record-Feature to produce authentic Guitartracks

New NTTs, (Note Transposition Tables)

Master-EQ (Low, High, parametric Mids)

Clock & Date Window

Track-Volumes un-muting by changing the Volume

3-Band-EQ for EACH Track


New Sounds!

(more than 250 RX-Sounds! – total over 400 Sounds!)

for example:

unique RX-Piano with Pedal- and Stringresonances and Key On/Off Noise

Organsounds, Organsounds, Organsounds…
B(X)3-Rock-Organs, BX3-Jazz-Organs, "Entertainer"-Organ-Performances
9-Drawbar-Feeling because of the additional Slider

RX E-Piano

RX Choirs und Scats

RX: new lovely Clarinet, new Alt Sax, new RX Flute...

New bavarian Accordion-Sounds

„Real-Guitar“-Sounds (acoustic & electric guitars)

new Latin & Percussion-Drumsets

and more…


New Styles!

Movie&Show-Stylegroup

modern Contemporary-Styles

Unplugged Stylegroup

new Organ-Styles

new Country-Styles

new Latin-Styles
...

all Styles are re-built with the new Guitar-Mode
and the new NTT (Note Transposition Table)

Yep time to sell my PA1X. Thats all i will say.

And this ALL ??? Sory but more "news" from Pa2x I have now in my Pa800 ...

Hello Jürgen,

if you make this analogy you´ve to list the + and the - points

and a big minus point are the missing EXB-Slots - so all PA1X Users with EXB-Board have no possibility to change to PA2X cause Korg cut them.

Analogy PA800 and PA2X
All PA800 User have the same Technology like PA2X (nearly)

So - if we look at this "news" - we have to do it totally and not only from the sight of the comany.

For me it´s not a replacement for PA1X (cause the missing EXB-places) - it´s a bigger brother of PA800 (cause 1:1 same features).

cu
Detlef

Analogy PA800 and PA2X
All PA800 User have the same Technology like PA2X (nearly)

and even the PA800 has a lot lot lot a lot lot lot more features than the PA1X

(but no EXB-Boards, right, but as I see, it is the only " - ")

I´ll listen to that and maybe there´s coming something for the future i can use my loved EXB´s.

cu
Detlef

Hi
i just wanna ask if anybody has any ide about pa2x? not PRO!!..
i dont need 76 keys..61 is enough cause i dont use it in the studio...pa1x's size is fine for me to take it with me when i will play out..and i dont have problem to take it in my car but...pa2x pro?? 76keys??!!! i'm not so happy for that...and if it has the same featuers as pa 800 so why should we buy pa2x pro while all know that it will be much more expensive than pa800!!

the hottest price for the PA2Xpro is € 2999,- (in Germany)

Hi,

this Pa1X <--> Pa2X comparison chart looks good enough for me. Thanks for sharing this list Sartorius, very informative.

I've tried also the Pa800 (from which the Pa2X clearly derived) and there is enough difference to move from Pa1X to Pa2X (I like the 76 keys and the sturdy construction btw).

The missing EXB slots (big problem for some) is not a problem for me, especially now that the piano, electric piano, clavinet and organ sounds (like in Pa800) seems addressed. In the need of some additional sounds I can load them, as happened with Pa1X, I can live with it.
IMHO I think that Detlef is pushing a lot this feature also because he is selling EXB, so it's not 100% out of the business in this case (no fight wittid, just my opinion).

Best Regards.

first - i´m not selling EXBs

i´m only using EXB´s and it´s my own interest to have the fitting slots for the boards.

cu
Detlef

mr.Sartorius can you answer my question please?
will korg make pa2x 61 keys with speaker???

kardo - this is pa800

wittid i asked korg in my country that i want to change my pa1x to pa800..so the answer was PA800 IS NOT BETTER THAN YOUR KEYBOARD..they told me that pa1x is still better..and as i know that pa800 is just an updat of pa80..not pa1x...dont you think?

i think their wrong

look at the datas os PA800 and PA2X

you´ll find your answer by yourself i think

http://www.mister-music.de/korg/Verglei ... yros2.html

(it´s PA2X not PA1X in the middle list)

cu
Detlef

i think korg play with us! it should be much better keyboard with more features in it..i still think that pa1x is better than pa 800..and you showed me that there are not different between pa800 and pa2x pro so i really dont understand that well...