Totally missed this; I don't *know* what's different on the PA5x yet, still waiting ours.
The aluminum (aluminium in the UK) case of the PA4x, PA3x etc will undoubtedly be on the PA5x as well. Physically it's as nice as you could ask for: brushed metal is easy to clean, and doesn't really leave fingerprints, nor does it wear out. But it comes at the cost of extra weight: the Pa5x-76 is 10 lbs heavier than the Genos.
Mark
8Gb compressed Ram for user samples (5Gb at current OS) plus 4Gb compressed memory of local samples
with streaming from on board Nand Ram
- 30.060 samples positions at current OS (doubled) , stereo sample takes one position.
- Over 10 GBs of factory samples with addons from Kronos sound libraries
- New EDS-XP sound engine with 24 Stereo Oscillators per Sound (from 24 mono of Pa4X)
that are shared 3 DNC controllers (main DNC2 engine is still the same as in Pa4X)
- 160 notes polyphony
- 10 insert effects (max 3 per track) and 3 master effects per Style (8 tracks)
- 3 insert effects / 3 master effects per KBD set
- New Finalizer effect added of 4 parametric EQ , plus Hi Pass & Low pass , plus Limiter / compressor that can be
assigned in every style and create separate dynamics compared to old global Maxx EQ.
- New updated and enhanced Vocal Processor with ability of simultaneous 6 effects
- Graphical improvement of effects and compressors and their interface with more clarity and better overal
stereo-phony of EDS-XP sound engine with 4 additional Audio Outputs
- Dual players of 2 Independence styles or any , with XDS crossfade control
- Smooth Sound Transition (SST)
- Applied round-robin feature in DKs , fully editable
- Improved Drawbar Organ interface and controllers
- 16 multi-pads plus new controllers assignment using sliders
- 3 pedal inputs with Half-pedal support
- Guitar input with gain and guitar effects via effects interface
- Favorite mode with available 11 KBD sets that can be used in every Style
- Direct SET as a function do not exist anymore , since you can browse directly to any KST folder with Styles/KBD Set and will work as older
Direct SET of Pa4X , as usual without custom samples & custom SOUND folders that will never change in PaSeries if not loaded & preloaded in Ram.
- Double resolution screen compared to Pa4X , 800x480
- 3 USB 3.0 ports , 1 HDMI , RGB leds
- New loading/saving interface with partial elements
- SF2 support similar to Kronos for simple formats (not complex layers)
- Many improved sounds & DKs using new EDS-XP sound engine
- 88 weighted Keybed edition
- User Samples loading time is close to Pa4X Next (though new AM5728 Arm Proc is twice faster) since they use the same streaming
method and can exceed 90sec if 4Gb Ram is filled by user samples.
- Pa4X/1000 resources conversion to new KST format works excellent if resources have been exclusively made on those
models and not from older Pa like Pa800/2X with corrupted parameters that already had issues in Pa4X !