Korg SP-500 Professional Stage Piano
Product Info
he new SP-500 combines the great sound and feel of an acoustic piano with really musical and easy to enjoy accompaniment features. Its good looks fit in anywhere, and its full complement of features makes the SP-500 Digital Piano perfect for home, school, church, etc.
Korg instruments are praised by professional musicians around the world for their superior sound. The new SP-500 Digital Piano continues that tradition with it rich sampled pianos - including a stunning stereo grand piano. And with a generous 64 notes of polyphony, the SP-500 ensures that notes will not be interrupted, even when you perform with full use of the damper pedal.
The SP-500 is loaded with 396 sound programs, all taken from Korg's professional synthesizers. In addition to 19 different piano sounds, the SP-500 boasts a selection of electric piano, organ, flute/sax, brass, strings, guitar, drum and synthesizer sounds. There are also eight special Melody Voice programs featuring natural-sounding vibrato that realistically captures each instrument's expressivity. Any two sounds can be layered together or split between the SP-500's high and low ranges.
The SP-500 Digital Piano features Korg's newest Real Weighted Hammer Action II keyboard that responds to your playing in the same way a grand piano does. It provides a heavier touch in the low register and a lighter touch in the high register. The SP-500's Key Touch Control function can be adjusted in six stages, letting you select the sensitivity you prefer.
The SP-500's professionally-produced accompaniment styles make it easy for you to create great sounding ensemble performances. Its Pianist Rhythm Styles provide accompaniments featuring piano-type left-hand passages that enable even novice players to sound like accomplished pianists. A wide range of Rhythm Styles covering rock, pop, jazz and more enable the SP-500 to deliver the full-sounding performance of a complete pro backup band.The SP-500 comes loaded with 128 Rhythm Styles, 26 Pianist Rhythm Styles and room for 64 User Styles you can create and save to memory.
Key features and specifications
- Keyboard: 88 key (A0-C8), Real Weighted Hammer Action II keyboard
- Touch Control: 6 velocity curve types
- Tone Generator System: Stereo sampling system
- Polyphony: 64 voices maximum
- Programs: ROM 204 +128(GM), RAM64/Drum
- Programs: ROM 13+1(GM), RAM 2/Sound Programs, Piano (19), E. Piano/Organ (33), Flute/Sax (47), Brass/Choir (45), Strings (45), Guitar (37), Bass (26), Synth/SE (59), Percussion (46), Includes 8 Melody Voices.
- Accompaniment: Rhythm Styles = ROM 128, Pianist Rhythm Styles = ROM 26, User 64
- Effects: Reverb (13), Others (24)
- Recorder: 1 song, 40,000 notes, 8-track (Control, Chord, KBD+5-track), Maximum 100 songs memory can be stored. Song Control (Song, Pause, Rew, FF, Play/Stop, Record), Total max. 128,000 notes when 12 songs are recorded. Total max.72,000 notes when 100 songs are recorded)
- Help Support: Help supports 2 languages-English/Japanese
- Demo Songs: 24 songs for piano programs (right-handed and left-handed is possible to separate), 9 songs for other sound programs, 1 song for Pianist Rhythm Style, 8 songs for other Rhythm styles,
- Metronome: On/Off, Tempo, Beat, Volume Tap Tempo Control
- Display: TouchView Graphical User Interface, 240 x 64 full-dot display
- Temperament (Scale): 10 types + 4 user scales
- Additional Features: Key Transpose, Pitch Control, Layer Function, Split Function
- Pedals: Damper, Soft or Assignable
- Connectors: Audio outputs (L/MONO, R), Audio inputs (stereo mini jacks), Headphones, Damper, Assignable switch
- MIDI: In, Out
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