Surprisingly, the Korg PA50 has a lot to offer for its price. It's a synth with a sound engine like that of the Triton Le, which uses a hyper integrated synthesis tone generator system. That alone will blow you away.
Its lineup of impressive features include polyphony, 4 effect processors, 2 sequencers, 89 effect types (for mixing) and 660 sound programs. You can store up to 160 user-defined settings. The Backing Sequencer it has allows you to capture up to 8 tracks of style accompaniment. Plus, during live playing or recording, the DJ-style crossfader of the Korg PA50 allows you to transition from one song to the other seamlessly. With this, you can load the next song while the current one is still playing. The XDS dual-song player makes this possible.
The piano sounds produced are definitely top-notch. High-quality instrument voices it possesses are saxophone, guitars, trumpet, brass, drums and strings, plus, as an added bonus, you can edit and modulate these voices to produce just the sounds that you need. Combine this with the use of other controllable features of the Korg PA50 like the joystick, fade in and out, tap tempo and more and you have a lot of fun ahead. With some practice and patient reading of the manual, you can make serious music with it.
The keyboard is not weighted and feels like any synth keyboard out there, so you will notice anything unusual in this area, even if this is not your first synth. Its casing is made of plastic and is at par with other brands and models in its price range. The Korg PA50 is not flimsy but being a little careful is not a bad idea. It is not something you'd want to be too careless with, either.
It can be used for stage performances or a practice instrument either at school or at home. You can take it with you as it only weighs in at about 25 lbs (about 12KG - not counting the weight of accessories you'd want to take with you). It also has built-in dual cone speakers with 15-W amps that give its rich sound, perfect for both songwriting and gigs.
Since it's a synth more than just a digital piano, there are countless ways of controlling and editing the sounds that you might want to check the manual for. If you lose the manual, you can download it from Korg's website. The Korg PA50 OS is also available online if you need to download it, too. In fact Korg back-up is really quite good in this area for most of their keyboards.
This synth would be useful to musicians as an additional instrument to their set or as the main arranger for recording or live performances. While beginners can use this as a regular digital piano and just plug and play it out of the box, they can later explore other musical styles with a few button pushes so it's pretty flexible. You can compare the Korg PA50 with the EXR-5 or Yamaha PSR and you will find, I think, that the sound quality is a steal for the price.
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