Korg - EK-50 CSA 61-key Entertainer Keyboard with Latin Styles

EK-50 CSA Arranger Keyboard with 61 Velocity Sensitive Keys, 64-Voice Polyphony, Real-Time Recording, 686 Sounds, 34 Effects, and Built-in Speaker System.

The Korg EK-50 CSA Entertainer Keyboard is a new addition to Korg's Arranger Keyboard series, featuring inspiring new Styles and Sounds focused on popular music in Latin America. The EK-50 CSA is simple to use and allows your musical ideas to evolve effortlessly into complete ready-to-play songs, with auto musical accompaniment that follows your chord changes. Styles provide an entire backing band as you play the keyboard, and high-quality sounds inspire you to add phrases as they come to mind. Simply put, the EK-50U is an Arranger Keyboard with Latin flare that you can enjoy on any musical level.

EK-50 CSA Features

• New sounds and styles that focus on popular music from Latin America
• New sounds including trumpets, saxophones, brass, guitar, bass and other popular instruments such as Sampona and Charango
• Performance record mode for quick and easy recording
• A layout that makes the numerous functions intuitive
• Built-in speakers for immediate enjoyment anywhere
• Play back favourite songs on the instrument while performing
• Refreshed speaker grill colour
• Add Styles from KORG's extensive library

Authentic Latin Music
The EK-50 CSA is packed with 686 instruments, 160 Keyboard Sets, and 356 authentic musical Styles that capture the essence of Latin music. Many of the Styles in EK-50 CSA have been re-made to take advantage of new and inspiring sounds. New authentic saxophone and brass sounds can be heard in Style categories such as Salsa and Merengue, and specialty sounds such as Quena can be heard in Styles such as Cumbia Andina. This allows EK-50 CSA to create the widest variety of Latin music genres, including Cumbia, Reggaeton, Mariachi, Merengue, Ska, and many more. In addition to the new Latin Styles, EK-50 CSA also includes the wide range of international Styles and Sounds from the original EK-50, allowing you to cover a wide range of music.

Inspiring Sound Capability
EK-50 CSA adds new sounds including trumpets, saxophones, brass, guitar, bass and even specialty instruments such as Sampoa and Charango. With a total of 39 custom drum kits and a complete MIDI GM2 sound set, the EK-50 CSA is a capable instrument no matter where your music takes you.

A high-fidelity PCM sound engine and two stereo effects processors make the EK-50 CSA capable of creating expressive music with motion and depth. There is also a convenient Grand Piano button located on the main panel, which means you can instantly recall a beautiful acoustic piano sound at any time.

A layout that makes numerous functions intuitive
The middle of the operating panel has a bright, clear display that shows the currently selected sound and Style names in large characters for great visibility. The buttons on EK-50 CSA are illuminated by their own LEDs which helps you visualize the setting of each function. There's also a "Grand Piano button" which brings you right back to the starting grand piano sound at any time, regardless of the currently selected sound.

Built-in speakers for immediate enjoyment
Powerful 10W x 10W stereo speakers are built into the instrument. They can reproduce not only the sound of the instrument itself, but also sound from an external device that you connect to the input jack. Additionally, a music rest and AC adaptor are included, so you're completely ready to go right out of the box. The EK-50 CSA also works with AA batteries (sold separately), so you can play on the go!

Compose, Record, and Share
EK-50 CSA offers a number of ways to easily capture your musical creations, and features convenient one touch recording. With this feature, your ideas can be quickly captured when inspiration strikes. There is also a powerful and easy to use sequencer that can function as a linear 12-track recorder.

Song mode lets you play back your own original creations, internal demo songs, MP3 or WAV audio data and SMF (Standard MIDI File) data saved on any commercially-available USB flash drive. You'll also be able to play onboard sounds while these songs play back.

Specifications

Keyboard: 61 keys, Velocity Sensitive, Touch Control (soft, medium, hard, fixed)

Sound Generator: Stereo PCM sound generator

Maximum Polyphony: 64 voices

Sounds
• Total of 686 Sounds on EK-50 CSA (24 New sounds)
• Total of 39 Drum Kits on EK-50 CSA (6 New kits)
• New PCM added for EK-50 CSA totals 60 multi-samples and 182 Drum Samples

Keyboard Sets: More than 170 sets

Effects
• Accompaniment part: 2 stereo digital multi-effects
• Keyboard part: 2 stereo digital multi-effects
• 34 types (148 variations)

Styles: 356 styles (100 new); 2 intros, 4 variations, 2 fills, 1 count in/break, 2 endings, synchro start/stop, tap tempo

Demo Songs: 18 songs

Audio Player: MP3, WAV (44.1 kHz)

Sequencer
• Record: Real-time recording (Style mode), maximum of 999 songs (approx. 100,000 notes), 12 tracks (4 keyboard parts + 8 auto accompaniment parts), original format (can convert to SMF0)
• Playback: Supports song play (playing on the keyboard during song playback), SMF (Standard MIDI File) format 0 or 1
• Includes Performance Record function for quick and easy recording

Scales: 11 types (including user scale)

Controls
Power button, VOLUME knob, joystick, STYLE button, SONG/[DEMO SONG] button, KEYBOARD SET/[STS] button, GRAND PIANO button, each button in the PART MUTE/[SOUND SELECT] section, SETTING/[EFFECT] button, PERFORMANCE REC / [ MEDIA ] button, SPEAKER EQ/[SPEAKER OFF] button, [SHIFT] button, ENSEMBLE button, SPLIT button, METRONOME/[BEAT SELECT] button, TAP TEMPO/[TEMPO LOCK] button, TRANSPOSE b and #/[OCTAVE /+] buttons, dial, CATEGORY button, value buttons, + button, - button, each button in the STYLE/SONG section, each button in the SET LIST section

Set lists: 10 banks x 4

Metronome: Tempo, beat, volume

Key Transpose: C (-12) to C (0) to C (+12)

Tuning: 427.5 - 452.9 Hz

Input/Output
• Foot controller jack: 6.3 mm (1/4") phone jack
• AUDIO IN jack: 3.5 (1/8") mm stereo mini-phone jack
• OUTPUT L/ MONO, R jacks: 6.3 mm (1/4") phone jack (unbalanced)
• Headphones jack: 3.5 mm (1/8") stereo mini-phone jack
• USB A port: TO DEVICE port for connecting USB flash memory and controllers
• USB B port: TO HOST port for connecting personal computers

Speaker System
• Amplification: 10 W 2
• Speakers: 120 mm (4.72") double-cone speakers 2 (bass reflex box-type)
• Speaker EQ: 8 types

MIDI: USB MIDI

Display: Custom LCD with backlighting

Power
Power supply: AC adapter (included) or AA batteries (alkaline dry cells or nickel-metal hydride batteries) x 8 (sold separately)
Battery life: When using alkaline dry cells: approx. 7 hours
Power Consumption: 8 W (0.1 W on standby)

Size and Weight
Dimensions (W x D x H): 994 mm x 392 mm x 132 mm / 39.13" x 15.43" x 5.20" (not including sheet music stand)
Height with sheet music stand attached: 329 mm /12.95"
Weight: 7.5 kg / 16.53 lbs (not including sheet music stand or batteries)

Included items: AC adapter, sheet music stand