The mixing of two styles facility, will open a new era of music playing and creativity. Your demonstration is highly professional Tony; for a very sophisticated keyboard arranger. Please keep up with the very good work, greetings from Egypt.
This is a brilliant demo of the PA5X. The best so far. I was disappointed with the Official launch, but this demo shows the potential of the keyboard. Well done Tony.
Thank you for a very nice video. I am Japanese. KORG is a Japanese musical instrument maker, but since arranger keyboards are not popular in Japan, there are few opportunities to see them at musical instrument stores, and only Pa1000 is sold. Unfortunately, PA5x is not available domestically. I was surprised at the high-class appearance, high sound quality, and high functionality of the KRONOS2 and Pa series. Currently, the yen is depreciating, and it is difficult for individuals to import high-priced products from overseas (though they are Japanese products, they are not distributed). I envy those who live in the UK and enjoy PA5x.
@@abohsukampret YAMAHA Genos has not been released in Japan. KORG is an affiliated company invested by YAMAHA. YAMAHA is focusing on the music classroom business, and its main business is Electone. If the arranger keyboard becomes widespread, it will not be possible to do the music classroom business that has greatly grown YAMAHA. Because of that, we can predict that it will not be released in Japan in the future. Genos is only on display at the corporate museum on the premises of Yamaha headquarters. Arranger keyboards are little known to Japanese musicians and music lovers.
@@hiro_taka it’s interesting you mention Electone because that is only available in Japan. But on the surface it looks like the Electone and Genos/PSR series have common technology under the hood. With Korg, as far as I know the PA series is developed in Italy so it is kind of a European product.
@@mudi2000a not really electone is also well known in other countries like the Philippines. I used to play on the electone before I got my korg M1 paired with a Roland MC50 sequencer. Thank you!
@@DynamteKid316 yes well in the 80s it was also sold in Europe. I had ( actually still have, still works after 40 years) an entry level model back then.
I say this: if musician plays good it be sound good on any keaboard, especially higher end. Encourage you to teach children while they young to play it be easier when get older to handle complicated arrangers or workstations
Tony always brings it. Other reviews, except Korg's own stuff, I've seen today have been poor so far, focusing more on getting stuff out soon rather than uploading something good. The first review to really demonstrate the excellent sound of different instruments thoroughly.
Another brilliant demo. Thanks very much for showcasing this machine. Currently own a brilliant Genos (which I bought from Bonners). I do like the look and sound of this korg. Would I swap....NO....would I add to.....definitely. Call it greed 🙂
Those round robin drums really sealed the deal for me. I was programing drums an realized how annoying it was having the snare sound exactly the same for ever hit even when I modified it and layered each hit with a different snare. I knew i had to grab this keyboard
❤🎉Thank you for the nice, concise and useful explanation of the pa5x masterpiece, which is an ocean of unknowns for people like me who have bought this wonderful device for a few months now. If you can continue to provide series of explanations for this device in your channel, surely many people like me will benefit from it. Best wishes ❤️ Jakob from Austria 🇦🇹
Takes me back working at Dawsons Music decades ago. When doing a keyboard demo, you need to learn loads of short bits of music you can use for all the different sounds. Once mastered I could sell to virtually every customer that was interested. Happy days.
This is the best Performance on You Tube. You show in a very professional Way this fantastic Keyboard. Perfect filmed, very good explained and a good Sound Quality. Great Job. If I live in Great Britain I will buy one in your Shop. But I am from Germany and will buy it from a Local Dealer - Sorry :-) You are also one of the Best Performer! Very sympatic (sorry for my bad English)
Great demo. The only drawback(if you can call it that) is that there are so many more mechanical buttons & sliders that there is more chances of them giving way over a period of time with dust & humidity!
@@Ahmad-vw5uw Well, this is the arranger keyboards are all about, is taking them out to live performance in dusty gigs. They're not meant to be indoors lol. Manufacturers should've always considered that.
You don't think manufacturers consider that. I have 3 Korg keyboards from the mid 80s that are still functioning like new and they were definitely gigged hard!
@@hienvu1714 Yes, the manufacturers do consider this but obviously, the conditions are not the same everywhere. In the 80s I had a Korg M1 & those buttons gave me a lot of trouble. I finally had to get rid of it. No matter how well the buttons/sliders are built they are most prone to dust.
KORG, why havent you released a vst with all the sounds of these keyboards? especially the oriental ones? We dont want to carry around a big ass keyboard.
Thanks so much Tony for this excellent demonstration. The sounds and features are outstanding. My only problem is with the keyboard stand . . . it is not stable. Perhaps another stand would solve that problem. Best wishes, Jerry.
Has KORG PA5X in the search function also to find chords instead sound, styles etc, in YAMAHA TYROS and GENOS it has always a list of chords examples in the search function. thank you 👌for example: how you can easily take a chord F#7(b5)
THIS IS IT !!!!!🤩 I have ROLAND E-500 from 90' , hmmmm. I can't imagine how I can learn to play and use the capabilities of this equipment ? Maybe I save the money and buy this, but what next ? I will need the teacher anyway. And the money invested must be returned 🤑 Best regards
Big Korg fan, starting with the 800, 3X and current 4X. Always have been disappointed with the acoustic pianos, but this model sounds promising in that department.
Im still deciding should i go for PA5x or Yamaha Genos... but i think at the end it will be Korg. Main reason is that Yamaha lacks sampler and for me having to fiddle with files and to transfer them using USB is not quite elegant solution.
enjoyed your detailed demo on this new arranger model very much. Always a pleasure watching and listening. But if I get one I'll never get anything else done because it's way too much fun...and that would be a problem:). What does the PA5x look like in the dark? Take care...
Looks great big Touch screen with lifting options 👍 hopefuly not a dull LCD green but sound voices seem to be very articulate we can hear 👌👏👏from but only Just 600 styles that's weird may be few Indian styles on it , we need great Indian professional atleast 50 to 75 styles to buy this for the price we pay ☹️🇨🇦
BR how many Indian styles and voices are in this PA5X also combined two styles to play alone which is superb 👍👍but I think some styles may not play with right tempo which may sound very odd🤔 also I saw one WARNING from other video with screen shots this particular model has so much bugs and firmware updates with error which gives freeze is that true have you faced any ?? Also I have a experience with Korg customer service which is one of the world worst care service 😯 Let me know Thank you
I like it. Too pricey for me, but I like it. The feature of blending/mixing two styles was actually done 20 years ago by Roland on their VA-76 using the Style Orchestrator and Style Morphing functions which let you seamlessly blend one style into another. What's old is new again.
the Pa5x is like the time they came out with the Oasys I liked the Oasys pad setup more convenient under the screen better than the way over to the right pads
I've expected more polyphony.... 256. but looks great. I have nautilus 88 just because pa5x was not released. So should I change it? I need the same quality of sounds as in Nautilus...
24 (48 mono) stereo oscillators. No keyboard ever has that many oscillators for a single sound. So given that, I think 160 is pretty decent. Plus they've programmed the patches to not eat polyphony so that's good.
Nice demo. I'm really new to the keyboard industry. What is the difference between a synth and an arranger? I just got one of these Pa5X and I have no clue how to use it. I really want to make orchestra music with choral singing in it. I wonder if I can do that with this. Or is there something else I need.
Nautilus is a temporary product designed to hold a market spot until Korg can finish working on their next-gen synth. It is sort of like the FA from Roland.
I just happened to watch this video and your Legend 70's demo, back to back. They are of course very different animals in regards to their use cases and functionality, but I was struck by how, IMO, the instrument sound quality on the Legend was leagues better!
This is an arranger, not a workstation like the Nautilus or Kronos. And from the software pov, Nautilus is an upgrade to the Kronos. From the design and front panel control section, it is a downgrade.
I have a Korg Pa 3X. I don’t have the manual book for how to save the whole data in the usb?…I will appreciate if you can teach me how to to do the saving!🙏. Thank you. Raffi Nazarian.
Hello, just wondering from my ignorance, can you create your own sounds here ? can you create a song from scratch ? otherwise does not make much sense for me to spend so much money on a basically good sounding karaoke machine, thanks !
My conundrum : Solved below. I found the answer. 3:55 - "PA5X also has On Board Sampling ..." ... ? I haven't found Sampling or Sampler in the Performance Guide PDF. There is no dedicated chapter, and I ran through all the Guide. Also, you didn't make any mention of Sampling on your "Timestamps". - Answer : They didn't offer at first ANY User Manual, several months ago. And I thought that the new name for the manual was the PDF I downloaded : the Performance Guide. It looks like a full-fledged manual. Why did they need to separate these two ?
Terrific demonstration...thank you!! What is your opinion of the sound quality vs. the Yamaha DGX 67O? Is this one worth 5 - 6 times the cost of the Yamaha?
Most of the sounds of this synthesizer in this demo are really unimpressive. Electric guitars are bad, Organ sounds are horrible, brass sounds are bad, orchestral sounds are bad. Some good piano sounds and synth layer sounds but nothing more. At this price no thank you.
I'm looking for a workstation that can emulate real instruments really well. This one sounds great. I'm only using it in a studio, so I have access to great sounding plugins, but I like the idea of having an all in one workstation. I already have some really nice synths, but I'm looking to be able to emulate pretty much every kind of real acoustic, electric, wind, string, brass, percussion, etc.. instrument on the planet. This one is up there in price, so if I did get one, it would more than likely be B Stock or used.
Why get a workstation if you are in a studio? VI's will serve you way better (in terms of sound and control) than a dedicated keyboard arranger or workstation. The purpose of hardware multi-timbral keyboards such as these are primarily focused on live performance rather than studio arrangements.
The mixing of two styles facility, will open a new era of music playing and creativity. Your demonstration is highly professional Tony; for a very sophisticated keyboard arranger. Please keep up with the very good work, greetings from Egypt.
This is a brilliant demo of the PA5X. The best so far. I was disappointed with the Official launch, but this demo shows the potential of the keyboard. Well done Tony.
Thank you for a very nice video. I am Japanese.
KORG is a Japanese musical instrument maker, but since arranger keyboards are not popular in Japan, there are few opportunities to see them at musical instrument stores, and only Pa1000 is sold. Unfortunately, PA5x is not available domestically.
I was surprised at the high-class appearance, high sound quality, and high functionality of the KRONOS2 and Pa series.
Currently, the yen is depreciating, and it is difficult for individuals to import high-priced products from overseas (though they are Japanese products, they are not distributed). I envy those who live in the UK and enjoy PA5x.
Ah, the pain of having to import your own product. Just curious though, what about Yamaha Genos? Its availability in your country, I mean.
@@abohsukampret YAMAHA Genos has not been released in Japan. KORG is an affiliated company invested by YAMAHA.
YAMAHA is focusing on the music classroom business, and its main business is Electone. If the arranger keyboard becomes widespread, it will not be possible to do the music classroom business that has greatly grown YAMAHA. Because of that, we can predict that it will not be released in Japan in the future.
Genos is only on display at the corporate museum on the premises of Yamaha headquarters. Arranger keyboards are little known to Japanese musicians and music lovers.
@@hiro_taka it’s interesting you mention Electone because that is only available in Japan. But on the surface it looks like the Electone and Genos/PSR series have common technology under the hood.
With Korg, as far as I know the PA series is developed in Italy so it is kind of a European product.
@@mudi2000a not really electone is also well known in other countries like the Philippines. I used to play on the electone before I got my korg M1 paired with a Roland MC50 sequencer. Thank you!
@@DynamteKid316 yes well in the 80s it was also sold in Europe. I had ( actually still have, still works after 40 years) an entry level model back then.
I say this: if musician plays good it be sound good on any keaboard, especially higher end. Encourage you to teach children while they young to play it be easier when get older to handle complicated arrangers or workstations
Tony always brings it. Other reviews, except Korg's own stuff, I've seen today have been poor so far, focusing more on getting stuff out soon rather than uploading something good. The first review to really demonstrate the excellent sound of different instruments thoroughly.
Only missed the guitar and mic interface demos .. .
@@markferreri5814 84zv
Love the big screen!
Another brilliant demo. Thanks very much for showcasing this machine. Currently own a brilliant Genos (which I bought from Bonners). I do like the look and sound of this korg. Would I swap....NO....would I add to.....definitely. Call it greed 🙂
Excellent Demonstration. Very professional. Best I have seen to date. Thank you for your effort.
Absolutely outstanding demonstration, thank you
Those round robin drums really sealed the deal for me. I was programing drums an realized how annoying it was having the snare sound exactly the same for ever hit even when I modified it and layered each hit with a different snare. I knew i had to grab this keyboard
❤🎉Thank you for the nice, concise and useful explanation of the pa5x masterpiece, which is an ocean of unknowns for people like me who have bought this wonderful device for a few months now. If you can continue to provide series of explanations for this device in your channel, surely many people like me will benefit from it.
Best wishes ❤️ Jakob from Austria 🇦🇹
Takes me back working at Dawsons Music decades ago. When doing a keyboard demo, you need to learn loads of short bits of music you can use for all the different sounds. Once mastered I could sell to virtually every customer that was interested. Happy days.
Excellent demo, thank you! This keyboard is fairly mind-blowing...
Such a lot of work goes into making these videos. Thanks Tony
Thanks for showing us the korg my friend owns a kronus which is absolutely brilliant
This is the best Performance on You Tube. You show in a very professional Way this fantastic Keyboard. Perfect filmed, very good explained and a good Sound Quality. Great Job. If I live in Great Britain I will buy one in your Shop. But I am from Germany and will buy it from a Local Dealer - Sorry :-) You are also one of the Best Performer! Very sympatic (sorry for my bad English)
Inspirational...many thanks Tony!
Amazing keyboard!
You are great keyboardist ....awesome you are
I am thinking of buying it. This guide will go a long way in helping me get the best out of it.
Glad to hear it!
Today I had a chance to play this amazing keyboard loved it ❤❤
Every time Tony demos a keyboard I want to buy it! Great as usual 😊
wonderful Presentation, thank you for this and please stay safe..
Excellent demo as always Tony!
Great demo. The only drawback(if you can call it that) is that there are so many more mechanical buttons & sliders that there is more chances of them giving way over a period of time with dust & humidity!
Always use a Nylon cover and clean it carefully and periodically. Also, please keep it in a dry place and away from Heat and Dust.
@@Ahmad-vw5uw Well, this is the arranger keyboards are all about, is taking them out to live performance in dusty gigs. They're not meant to be indoors lol. Manufacturers should've always considered that.
You don't think manufacturers consider that. I have 3 Korg keyboards from the mid 80s that are still functioning like new and they were definitely gigged hard!
@@hienvu1714 Yes, the manufacturers do consider this but obviously, the conditions are not the same everywhere. In the 80s I had a Korg M1 & those buttons gave me a lot of trouble. I finally had to get rid of it. No matter how well the buttons/sliders are built they are most prone to dust.
What an impressive quality of sound.
That wobbly stand gives me anxiety! Thanks for the demo.
Great work on the demo. Hope you get the business. I wish I had seen this last week. I bought a Roland. Nice, but this is an awesome arranger.
This guy is really good ...
Technically it’s a 32 track sequencer with cross fader in middle. Amazed no one brings that up.
Thank you with love from iran 🇮🇷
Still on my wish list...hope someday I can own PA5X
awesome. I have a PA1000 which I haven't fully exploited yet, but the PA5x looks like a major upgrade to the PA1000...
In a year or two, you may have a sucessor to your Pa1000.
Great .. but i wish if you talk about the Audio microphone and vocalist
Bonners is since 1976 so it is as old as I am :)
5:31. Thats a beautiful patch and song
Wow! What a great keyboard!
you are the best demonstrator thanksss
Who knew Mark King was demoing keyboards!!
Mantabb nih udah rilis
J’ai acheté un pa5x et je suis très très satisfait de ce clavier
Great - tx for the presentation.
Great Instrument. Thanks for this presentation.
Wow very beautiful sounds ..now i got confuse within yamaha genos and this obe.. ove day i will obe of this
cool subbed
What a fantastic demo. 👍👍Best regards Ben
KORG, why havent you released a vst with all the sounds of these keyboards? especially the oriental ones? We dont want to carry around a big ass keyboard.
Thank you Tony
Super demo
Thanks so much Tony for this excellent demonstration. The sounds and features are outstanding. My only problem is with the keyboard stand . . . it is not stable. Perhaps another stand would solve that problem. Best wishes, Jerry.
To the Korg Engineering Department, thank you.
thank you very much for this review.
Has KORG PA5X in the search function also to find chords instead sound, styles etc, in YAMAHA TYROS and GENOS it has always a list of chords examples in the search function. thank you 👌for example: how you can easily take a chord F#7(b5)
THIS IS IT !!!!!🤩
I have ROLAND E-500 from 90' , hmmmm. I can't imagine how I can learn to play and use the capabilities of this equipment ?
Maybe I save the money and buy this, but what next ? I will need the teacher anyway. And the money invested must be returned 🤑
Best regards
Big Korg fan, starting with the 800, 3X and current 4X. Always have been disappointed with the acoustic pianos, but this model sounds promising in that department.
The piano samples have been borrowed from the flagship Kronos, Nautilus workstations as well as a few EP sounds from the SV-2.
This equipment is hella nice
Im still deciding should i go for PA5x or Yamaha Genos... but i think at the end it will be Korg. Main reason is that Yamaha lacks sampler and for me having to fiddle with files and to transfer them using USB is not quite elegant solution.
My favourite ❤ and future ❤ keyboard
enjoyed your detailed demo on this new arranger model very much. Always a pleasure watching and listening. But if I get one I'll never get anything else done because it's way too much fun...and that would be a problem:). What does the PA5x look like in the dark? Take care...
very cool. It's like a Clavinova less the large piano cabinet and price
ooops quite new very interesting
I've got Pa4x one
Can you assign chords to the pads like with the Korg M3? That keyboard was a beast for it's time. I want to know if this can replace it Midi wise.
The styles sound much less cheesy than the Yamaha Genos and allow more freedom to improvise.
Very good piano
Looks great big Touch screen with lifting options 👍 hopefuly not a dull LCD green but sound voices seem to be very articulate we can hear 👌👏👏from but only Just 600 styles that's weird may be few Indian styles on it , we need great Indian professional atleast 50 to 75 styles to buy this for the price we pay ☹️🇨🇦
BR how many Indian styles and voices are in this PA5X also combined two styles to play alone which is superb 👍👍but I think some styles may not play with right tempo which may sound very odd🤔 also I saw one WARNING from other video with screen shots this particular model has so much bugs and firmware updates with error which gives freeze is that true have you faced any ?? Also I have a experience with Korg customer service which is one of the world worst care service 😯 Let me know Thank you
Thanks Bonny for demo wonderi g is needed to buy also speakers or thus one have oen speakers self.
Best demo so far specially the songs but man $5K 👀👀
WELL PRESENTED!!
Yes. But please, use a better stand next time, to me the wobbling was quite distracting :)
Nice piano
I like it. Too pricey for me, but I like it. The feature of blending/mixing two styles was actually done 20 years ago by Roland on their VA-76 using the Style Orchestrator and Style Morphing functions which let you seamlessly blend one style into another. What's old is new again.
Very true. But no-one could understand how to use it on the VA76 :-)
Loved the va variphrase and style switching. However, can you take the elements from each style instead of having to play the stock style
the Pa5x is like the time they came out with the Oasys I liked the Oasys pad setup more convenient under the screen better than the way over to the right pads
Video thật sự bổ ích 😘 Thanks
I've expected more polyphony.... 256. but looks great. I have nautilus 88 just because pa5x was not released. So should I change it? I need the same quality of sounds as in Nautilus...
24 (48 mono) stereo oscillators. No keyboard ever has that many oscillators for a single sound. So given that, I think 160 is pretty decent. Plus they've programmed the patches to not eat polyphony so that's good.
Can u build loops while continuing to stack sounds onto it while incoorperating the selected rhythm style?
Sounds amazing❤❤❤ But expensive, only for the rich ones
Awesome sounding keyboard! Does it include Korgs latest innovation, "After Touch?"😉
Nice demo. I'm really new to the keyboard industry. What is the difference between a synth and an arranger? I just got one of these Pa5X and I have no clue how to use it. I really want to make orchestra music with choral singing in it. I wonder if I can do that with this. Or is there something else I need.
So much control.. I wonder if we will get these goodies on the Nautilus 2 if it ever arrives.
Nautilus is a temporary product designed to hold a market spot until Korg can finish working on their next-gen synth. It is sort of like the FA from Roland.
@@ablesam That makes sense.
Extraordinary 👆
A very entertaining, enthusiastic, and confident presentation. I’m guessing that you didn’t learn all the ‘tech’ during a lunch break…
Tony's a gigging musician and the Bonner's store owner. He's been doing this for more than 3 decades.
I just happened to watch this video and your Legend 70's demo, back to back. They are of course very different animals in regards to their use cases and functionality, but I was struck by how, IMO, the instrument sound quality on the Legend was leagues better!
Really wish i knew this was coming only a couple months after I settled for the Nautilus not wanting to invest the the obsolete Kronos
This is an arranger, not a workstation like the Nautilus or Kronos. And from the software pov, Nautilus is an upgrade to the Kronos. From the design and front panel control section, it is a downgrade.
I have a Korg Pa 3X.
I don’t have the manual book for how to save the whole data in the usb?…I will appreciate if you can teach me how to to do the saving!🙏.
Thank you.
Raffi Nazarian.
I need ❤❤❤
But THE PRICE ??? $6000 +......Insane.....
Thanks for the demo! In your opinion; Genos or Korg pa5x?
Korg pa5x👌🏻👑🎶
Super
Hello, just wondering from my ignorance, can you create your own sounds here ? can you create a song from scratch ? otherwise does not make much sense for me to spend so much money on a basically good sounding karaoke machine, thanks !
Would this be considered a direct competitor of the Roland Fantom? What are the main differences in capabilities?
VERY COOL DOES KORG WORK WITH ABLETON
My conundrum : Solved below. I found the answer.
3:55 - "PA5X also has On Board Sampling ..." ... ?
I haven't found Sampling or Sampler in the Performance Guide PDF. There is no dedicated chapter, and I ran through all the Guide.
Also, you didn't make any mention of Sampling on your "Timestamps".
- Answer : They didn't offer at first ANY User Manual, several months ago. And I thought that the new name for the manual was the PDF I downloaded : the Performance Guide. It looks like a full-fledged manual. Why did they need to separate these two ?
Sangat cantik tata tombolnya mirip Yamaha❤❤❤❤❤
Супер!
please, where do we distinguish between korg pa5x international and korg pa5x musikant
I know this is a year ago can you explain why people have a problem with those pianos because I want to buy one, but I need to know why
Is the Quick Record in the Sequencer still not available?
Terrific demonstration...thank you!! What is your opinion of the sound quality vs. the Yamaha DGX 67O?
Is this one worth 5 - 6 times the cost of the Yamaha?
No it doesn't sound 6 times better than DGX 670 😂
@@Mirceanagymusic thank you...i will consider the yamaha DGX @ $900
Most of the sounds of this synthesizer in this demo are really unimpressive. Electric guitars are bad, Organ sounds are horrible, brass sounds are bad, orchestral sounds are bad. Some good piano sounds and synth layer sounds but nothing more. At this price no thank you.
@@luisl2066 entonces es mejor genos y psr sx900?
I would like PA5x 88
I'm looking for a workstation that can emulate real instruments really well. This one sounds great. I'm only using it in a studio, so I have access to great sounding plugins, but I like the idea of having an all in one workstation. I already have some really nice synths, but I'm looking to be able to emulate pretty much every kind of real acoustic, electric, wind, string, brass, percussion, etc.. instrument on the planet. This one is up there in price, so if I did get one, it would more than likely be B Stock or used.
Why get a workstation if you are in a studio? VI's will serve you way better (in terms of sound and control) than a dedicated keyboard arranger or workstation. The purpose of hardware multi-timbral keyboards such as these are primarily focused on live performance rather than studio arrangements.
VI's buddy! VI's !!
Oh didn't I see it already for sale? And who knows how much it costs please tell me?