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The Pa700 Oriental is Korg's mid-range arranger workstation tuned for Middle Eastern and Arabic music. It adds quarter-tone scales, a dedicated Quarter Tone Sub Scale mini-keyboard and a Kaoss-style X/Y effects pad to the standard Pa700 platform, which already carries over 1,700 sounds and 370-plus styles. The 61 semi-weighted keys, 2x25 W bass-reflex speakers and capacitive TouchView display make it a self-contained performance keyboard. It suits wedding and party players, Arabic and Turkish repertoire specialists, and gigging soloists who want a single board. Against the standard Pa700 it trades nothing but adds the Oriental sound and scale set; against the flagship Pa4X it is lighter and simpler, with fewer outputs and no aftertouch.
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Lowest price we've seen: $1,949.99 on Nov 10 at Focus Pro Audio. Tracked across 13 stores since Nov 10.
Owners rate it highly, praising the quarter-tone implementation and the Middle Eastern sound set as the reason to choose it over a generic arranger. Most criticism centers on weight and the time needed to learn the interface.
The Korg Pa700 Oriental is a 61-key arranger workstation built for Middle Eastern music. It has all the functions of the standard Pa700 and adds a mini-keyboard on the left side. This mini-keyboard is used to customize quarter-tone scales and has four preset buttons for common quarter-tone scales, including Arabic scales. Sounds and styles specific to Middle Eastern music are included, such as oud, bouzouki, kanoun and Middle Eastern percussion.
The keyboard uses Korg's EDS-X (Enhanced Definition Synthesis-eXpanded) sound engine with over 1,700 sounds and over 370 styles. The sounds cover classic and contemporary keyboards, band and orchestral instruments, and electronic and acoustic instruments. They include two multi-layer stereo grand pianos with damper and body resonance, electric pianos from the Korg SV-1 Stage Piano, and a digital drawbar organ with key on/off noises, leakage and Rotary Speaker emulation. Sounds can be fully edited, with up to 24 oscillators per note.
A 2x25 watt amplifier drives two speakers in a bass-reflex enclosure. The capacitive TouchView display has a redesigned graphical interface. Kaoss-style X/Y touch grid effects are included, and a mic/guitar input lets the keyboard process and amplify other signals. User memory holds up to 256 MB of compressed PCM data for custom sounds. The keyboard can load or import KORG, WAV, AIFF and SoundFont formats, and export in WAV or AIFF.
