Korg Professional 61-Key Arranger Keyboard with Built-In Speakers, Quarter Tone Middle Eastern Music Styles, TouchView Color TFT Display

The Korg Professional 61-Key Arranger Keyboard with Built-In Speakers is a compact, professional musical arranger keyboard with built-in amplification that features a wide variety of musical arrangement styles with programmable functionality. It is designed for quick and easy arrangement and execution of live musical performances and more. It is equipped with quarter tone sub scale functionality and comes preloaded with sounds and styles to suit a variety of Middle Eastern music tastes including Persian, Arabic and Turkish.

Designed as an All-in-One performance tool, the PA-600QT is equipped with two internal loudspeakers that are housed in a bass-reflex box and driven by two 15-watt amplifiers. In addition to the standard 61-note keyboard, it also features a mini-keyboard on the left side for use with quarter tone scales. These features, in tandem with its compact design and programmable features, make the keyboard a handy tool for "one-man-band" type performances such as restaurant or coffee house gigs.

The PA-600QT boasts an assortment of over 950 preloaded sounds with 96MB of expansion memory for adding new ones. In addition to the sound bank, there are over 360 on-board genres and musical arrangement styles that accommodate to a wide range of performance occasions. Each style includes intros, endings, variations and breaks that allow you to create arrangements for your performances. Styles can be edited and custom styles can be created as well.

In terms of effects, the arranger includes four stereo master processors with 125 different effects including reverb, delay and chorus. Additionally, each track features EQ with low, mid and high controls. Other programmable features that aid in arranging and performing your music include the chord sequencer function that allows you to record a chord progression on the fly to free up both hands for a solo passage and the SongBook database feature for quickly for locating musical pieces and recalling settings such as FX, tempo, master transpose, muted tracks and more.