I'm lovin the PA800, get to use it this weekend on 3 gigs, starting tonight.

Steve,

I never had a doubt that you would love the PA800 its a wonderfull unit especially for live gigs...........good luck on your gig!

Give em hell!

When I asked Rob Sherrat about these a while back he said that they were not intended for the PA-800 users. I'm confused.

they are for the pa1x I read but can be enough info to use with the pa800 also.

The PA1X PA800 and PA2X have very similar navigational and operational functions. If you have ever owned the Pa1x then using the pa800 or pa2x will be easy as they share so much between them.

I will be posting the 'Korg Arranger Secrets ' DVD's on Monday. A lot of work has gone into this. We truly hope you enjoy what we have done and that you get a taste of the potential of these amazing instruments

spalding thanx for the info!! sounds great!

Wonderful work to all those involved.

Can't wait!!!!

from the Korg pa800 forum....


"I thought you might be interested in this. I recently finished as one of the team of volunteers who made the three "Korg Arranger Secrets" DVD's featuring Chris Whitehead (an ex-Korg demonstrator), which are now available. This was the technique we used for the studio recordings (all done in 1 day):

L&R line outputs from the Pa1x were routed to Chris's stand alone hard disk recorder, laying down one stereo track. Two microphones were connected "dry" (ie without FX) to individual tracks on the Hard Disk recorder. We recorded Worth singing vocals/ harmonies via the Pa1x by routing the Pa1x vocal outputs to Output 1 and 2 and connected these to a new stereo track on the HD recorder. We transported all the tracks from Chris's HD recorder using a 500 Gbyte disk on a laptop, and then copied them to the desktop PC doing the editing. This has 3x 500 Gbyte hard disks.

We also accumulated 12 Mini-DV tapes from each of 3 digital camcorders, ( ie 36 hours of video fotage) - these contained digital video plus audio tracks. Once camera filmed the display, one the side view and one the front view. The tapes were captured into my desktop PC one at a time over a 36 hour period using a firewire interface between the Camcorder and my PC, and Adobe Premiere CS3 software on the PC.

We then loaded all the tracks into Adobe Premiere CS3, and did the rest of the track synchronisation and editing there. Menus were built using Adobe Encore CS3. Total disk space taken up was about 900 Gbytes. There was approx 800 hours of post production editing work which I won't go into here ."

Best regards,
Rob Sheratt

well they have almost all been shipped. It took a lot of effort but its out there now. We attempted to show what could be done with this wonderful range of arranger instruments. You will see that we have tried to get 'under the hood' of these instruments. I have said many times before that most of us simply scratch the surface on these instruments.

We did this as a "not for profit" enterprise to benefit all users and if the "project" makes any surplus cash we will plough this back into producing more DVD's on requested topics in the future.

We wanted to stop talking about how great these instruments are and to start to actually show what they can do .

The DVD's feature Chris Whitehead who is arguably the best known demonstrator and improviser of the Pa1x and Pa800 in the UK. The recordings were done using three video cameras and a hard disk sound recorder in Chris's studio in Maidenhead UK on 8th July. Each DVD has a "four screen" view showing the chapter title, the display in close up, a rear view of the whole keyboard, and a front view of Chris as he narrates and demonstrates. The other recordings are of Chris playing and demonstrating the Pa1x with optional MP3 board fitted.

As far as we know, the content will be useful to owners of the Pa800 as well, although we have not covered any of the "extras" that are in the new OS1.5 for the Pa800 at the moment (you lucky people!!).

The contents are as follows:

DVD 1 of 3
Introduction
Demonstration
Sounds & Editing
Organs & Leslie FX
Style Playing
Modifying Styles
Songbook & Editing
Vocal Processor
MP3 Recording
Sub-Output Mixes


DVD 2 of 3
Sequencing
Multitracking
Step Editing
Import from Midi
Quantising
Backing Sequence
Saving your work
Sound Synthesis
Effects
Creating Sounds
Grooves & Loops
Loading Samples
Drum tracks

DVD 3 of 3
Style Creation
Midi to Styles
Create Styles
Editing Styles
Copying Styles
Merging .set files
Hints & Tips
Putting it into practice

We truly hope that the DVD inspires you to dig deeper into your keyboard and become even better arranger musicians !

PS

Merry Christmas everyone at the Synthzone !!

How do I get in on this?
Sound like a great learning tool !
UD

Write to Yamaha, they will send it to you...

I am only half kidding..Does'nt Yamaha still hold an interest in Korg USA?

Apparently not according to wikipedia:

"Yamaha Corporation has always been a major partner of Korg, supplying them with circuitry and mechanical parts. In 1987, shortly before the release of the M1 Music Workstation, Yamaha acquired a controlling interest in Korg's stock. The takeover of the company was amicable, with Kato drawing up the terms, and the two companies continued to independently develop their product lines and compete in the marketplace. After the following 5 very successful years, Kato had enough cash to rebuy most of the Yamaha share back in 1993, something that has gone unnoticed to many except maybe the shareholders."

Full text can be read here .

Paul.

Just a quickie. The Korg Arranger Secrets DVD's have arrived at our USA distributorb this afternoon. Those of you that ordered should be recieving your individual orders over the next 5-10 days !!!

They got held up in customs. Goodness knows what sort of DVD's they thought these were.....

Spalding Great new.....I cant wait!!! Yipppeeee!!!

DITTO!!

Just got mine today ...haven't had a chance to fully watch them all....just quickly browsed....very well done & packed with so much useful info professionally demonstrated.
I'll get into all 3 DVDs in due time for sure .....every keyboard on the market should have instructional DVDS like this for sure. Bravo!

Thanks for those comments DNJ. We are currently discussing the preparation for a 4th DVD. We really hope you will enjoy the work that we have done but more than that we hope that the practical performance related tips will inspire you to make even better music more efficiently.

PS i was jamming by myself with the PA1X last night till 1.00am this morning. I have had it 3 years . I cannot remember any instrument that kept me inspired and creative so long after i bought it. I love my PAX!

To whom should payment be made, and how many USD ?
Bernie

Nevermind, it was inside the DVD set

Got mine on Saturday and started viewing them. I'll certainly be learning something from them and have already learned a few things I did not know. I particularly like the 3 camera angles and the section on the Vocal Harmonizer.