I took the liberty of translating the posting of Jurgen Sartorius for those of you who don't understand German: (So what follows is NOT MY WRITING! It is a translation by me of the message on http://foren.musik-meyer.net/korg/index.php?t=msg&th=6131 )

Hi All,

Just came back from the Musik Mayer Hausmesse in Marburg, where I had the chance to look at the new OS2.0 for the PA2XPro and PA800. What I most certainly have to tell you before loads of questions will arise: I was most impressed by the new DNC-sounds (Defined Nuance Control)!

Let me explain: A sound can consist of 16 different sounds (oscillators). Korg has added functions that can trigger these oscillators in various ways. For example by playing Legato, by Aftertouch, by using the SoundControl- or EC5-buttons, or at random, or in preset order...
We all know Legato, but now you can control the way the effect works: long legato, or shorter...

Using the sustain pedal you can add sounds to the patch: saxophones, guitars, trumpets, all with legato-functions, valve-noise, breathnoise and of course the extra sounds you already assigned to the buttons mentioned above. And everything can be editted, every detail of the sound!

Also, the random function of additional noises to the voice is very useful. For instance, the guitar sound consists of 12 different 'noises' that create a very life-like playing style when added at random.

Guys, let me tell you this: after I heard this for the first time, I couldn't get the smile off my face anymore.

Organs with monophonic percussion, truly 'ready' (random) synthsounds, triggering timpani with the benders, I could go on endlessly...

To all MIDIfile users:

Us Korgies knew before: Having TWO midiplayers is better than having just one. And now they added an cool and above all easy search function to it!

Just enter the search phrase (for example 'ROCK') and in an instant the display will show you a list of all MIDI's, MP3's and other data containing the word "ROCK". This means: no sorting anymore, just put it all on the harddrive and always find it again. Cool, isn't it?

And of course the cool note-display. Every track can be made visible with a simple click and can be transposed within the octave. Lyrics, chords and note names can also be displayed. You can't change the layout of the display but "Hello?!?!" We have note-display! That already is cool enough!

Many small and more detail-improvements can be found on http://www.korgpa.com . Routing MP3 to a seperate OUT for example, and much more.

Be sure to be ready to download this new OS once it's available!

Regards,
Jürgen Sartorius

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[This message has been edited by Burkels (edited 09-16-2008).]

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