The Korg Pa800 is the successor to their Pa80, the most successful professional arranger ever produced. RX Technology First used on the Pa1X, the most powerful Arranger around, RX Technology is the guiding philosophy behind the Pa800. RXReal eXperience - guided all Korg"s design and sound decisions. When the Pa800 performs, the audience will listen. The Pa800 includes as standard the acclaimed TC Helicon Voice Processor. This features EQ and professional quality effects (reverb, echo, etc.), designed and shaped specifically for vocals. These effects, combined with the built-in 3-voice harmony and dedicated high-quality mic preamp, ensure your vocals have the highest possible sound quality. The most important controls to keep your voice under control are available in the panel and in the display"s main page. Simply connect your microphone and start performing! Taming Technology for Intuitive Ease of Use With all the technological power packed inside, it was vital that Korg also made the Pa800 easy to understand and easy to use. But even more, they wanted the whole way you use the Pa800 to be an intuitive, musical, fast, foolproof experience. The graphical user interface uses an amazing Graphical Color Touch Screen so you simply think, point, and click for easy and intuitive useRX Technology at work for you! Allowing musicians of all levels to make great music quickly, there are two interface modes: easy and expert. The easy mode shows only the most important controls while keeping a clean and easy interface, useful for beginners or playing live, while in expert mode you have full editing control. Nothing stands between you and your professional performance. Switches and sliders are assignable so your live performances work the way you want. And when you need more information? Check out the multilingual contextual Help System that is standard onboard! Unparalleled Quality of Sound Of course, having power and ease of use mean nothing without great sound and the stunning high-quality sound performance of the Pa800 will impress any audience. The Pa800 delivers sound that makes it seem like you have the coolest band available on stageall working under your control. Korg sound quality is relied on by musicians everywhere. For the Pa800, they redesigned what was already the most powerful synth sound engine available to give you an even richer, more detailed, sophisticated, and natural sound than ever before with musical instruments from almost every genre exploding with depth, nuance, subtlety, accuracy, and richness. They even used several sounds from OASYS helping the Pa800 set a new standard for arranger keyboards. The sound memory of the Pa800 has been largely increased to achieve the best sound quality possible boasting all new multilevel samples of the instruments you know and love. Many of these also include also various levels of articulation so the polyphony has also been expanded to 120 notes to cover even busy passages. There are more than 950 ROM sounds, including a new amazing multilayer stereo acoustic piano accurately sampled from a Concert Grand (and including String and damper pedal Resonance!), plus an extra 64 drum kits. In addition, the RAM area contains up to 256 user sounds and 64 drum kits and of course, there is full onboard sound editing. Full Featured Sample Tools Still not enough sounds? Many professional musicians choose to add their own sounds and because the Pa800 is dedicated to professional musicians, you can load Wave, AIFF, and Korg format files plus, of course, the incredible Akai sample libraryabout the largest sample library availableinto the standard 64MB of added memory. The Pa800 also features professional editing facilities such as loop, cut, normalize, and cropp