PA500 Oriental

OrientalKB · Post by **OrientalKB** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 2:29 pm

Hi all..

I'm new to this forum... I need some help and suggestions regarding the new Korg PA500 ORT, or "Oriental"

I'm in process of buying a KB to play Oriental music with... I was about to get the Yamaha OR700, but I just heard that Korg has a new Oriental version of the PA500... I haven't been able to look up any info on it on the web such as the built in "oriental" sounds and styles

I was wondering if anyone already owns one or if anyone has info about it... I just need some feed back weather I should go with the Korg or get the Yamaha..

Thank you..

macboy · Post by **macboy** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 6:56 pm

www.korgtr.com should be some info. It is not out yet I think ? Nedim ?

BasariStudios · Post by **BasariStudios** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 9:48 pm

No this is not the same, this is PA500 Turkije. Oriental, few weeks ago Jerry,
Korg USA Menager invited me to go review the synth nd we went with
Abdallah Safar from MIDI EAST. Dont confuse your self, there is 3 different
versions of it, one is Oriental for the Arabic world, one is Turkiye and one is
Persian, they are all different, i reviewed only the Oriental version.
It is a very good machine, everything is based on Bassam Ayoub's USB stick.
You have the user scale taken out for easy acces. All the styles and sound are
in ROM. For that you have separate Oriental banks. What else to tell you i dont
know since everything comes down to personal taste.

jerrythek · Post by **jerrythek** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 1:26 am

Yes, the ORT is for Middle Eastern musicians and is different from the Turkey model, or the Chinese model, or the German model (not that you'd likely confuse that one!).

We're just finishing getting the images, text and demos and will have the web page built in a week or so. It's a very good instrument, well-suited for a lot of Middle Eastern musicians. Wait for the demos etc. and you'll see... er, I mean, hear.

Regards,

Jerry

BasariStudios · Post by **BasariStudios** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 2:52 am

Welcome back Jerry. To not open another post, i just wanna remind you about
the issues we discussedon KMP PA>M3 which is an M3 bug...if you did something.

Thanks

OrientalKB · Post by **OrientalKB** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 4:35 am

Thank you all for all your informative replies.. The other question I have is can load pa80/pa800 sets to this keyboard?

macboy · Post by **macboy** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 8:39 am

Yes that should be no problem. Except no favorites banks on PA500 !

korg4me · Post by **korg4me** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 2:44 pm

hi, where can i download the RESOURCES file for PA-500 ORT ? i try to load the files file from www.KORGPA.com into PA-500ORT but it says it damaged !!! any help ?

mrniceneasy · Post by **mrniceneasy** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 9:33 pm

Hi Korg4me. Did you not receive a CD with your Keyboard? If so the operating system should be on there....

korg4me · Post by **korg4me** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 9:47 pm

1st thanks for ur reply

im not just need the OS i also need the Musical Resources too, i try to browse the CD but i didnt find the OS or the Res files, so i use the OS 1.18 from here and it works fine but the res file didnt work maybe because my model is ORT

Sam CA · Post by **Sam CA** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 10:34 pm

Can you load a user sounds/drum kit in PA500 like we do in PA800? Or PA500 series are only limited to whatever they come with?

korg4me · Post by **korg4me** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 10:37 pm

yes it contain user DK/Sounds, before erasing the Musical Resources but now there is nothing, so i must re-load the Musical Resources to bring it back

Sam CA · Post by **Sam CA** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 10:46 pm

korg4me wrote:yes it contain user DK/Sounds, before erasing the Musical Resources but now there is nothing, so i must re-load the Musical Resources to bring it back

Sorry for confusion. I was just asking in general , if it's possible to have your own sounds and drum kits that are not based on internal sounds with PA 500.

korg4me · Post by **korg4me** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 10:50 pm

after i erase the SSD which contain the Musical Resources there is no sound comes out from it, i just can re-load the OS only, i dont know if this is the answer for ur question !

mrniceneasy · Post by **mrniceneasy** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 10:03 am

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