This product has now been discontinued in the UK and information supplied here is for reference only.

Revolutionary Sequencing

Recording your musical ideas is where the PA-80 provides its most distinct advantage. Where traditional workstations provide you an empty palette to start your idea with, the PA-80’s Backing Sequencer can take advantage of the accompaniment system to provide you with as little or as much of a band as you need. If you simply need drums, you can select a Style and create a drum track with the press of a few buttons, adding fills where needed. Want more? Use the full system to get up to eight players who will follow your every idea. After playing you can easily change chord ideas, break-downs etc. and the system will automatically change the parts needed so you can try out new ideas without re-recording everything.

This brings a simplicity and flexibility to creating music that the more complex but demanding traditional systems can’t match. So it’s the perfect tool for the non-keyboardist and for the professional who needs to work quickly. And the sounds you need to play yourself are separate from the sequencer tracks so there’s never any fear of note-robbing or effects setup compromises.

Dual Sequencer

The PA-80 further revolutionizes sequencing with its XDS Dual Sequencer Engine (patent pending). This new innovation allows the user to playback two independent sequences at the same time, with individual transport control for each sequence and a crossfader to switch between them. That’s a total of 40 tracks of sequence playback power – two sixteen track sequences plus four realtime tracks and four Pad tracks. Use it to create your own mixes drawn from more than one sequence, or to create long medleys of tunes with nice overlaps between songs.

Even More Innovations

The PA-80 features a powerful multitasking operating system which allows you to load a new Style while one is playing, load a new Program while a Song is playing, even edit sounds or Global parameters while listening to your song ideas. This makes working with it a fluid process – the technology never gets in the way of your creativity. Play data directly from floppy disk or optional internal hard drive, and use optional PCMCIA Flash-ROM cards to add more sounds, samples, grooves and styles to your world with no load time. And the Operating System can easily be updated, so expect some exciting new functions already planned for the near future.

Specifications subject to change without notice