Korg EK-50U Entertainer Keyboard
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Meet the latest edition to Korg’s Arranger Keyboard series, the EK-50 U, featuring inspiring new Styles and Sounds focused on classic and modern American popular music. The EK-50U builds on the success of the original EK-50, adding authentic American Styles ranging from jazz to modern country, alternative, dance, and rock.
The EK-50 U 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 American flare that you can enjoy on any musical level.
The EK-50 U 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 American flare that you can enjoy on any musical level.
- Keyboard
- 61 keys (velocity sensitive)
- Touch Control
- Soft (light), medium (standard), hard (heavier), fixed
- Sound Generator
- Stereo PCM sound generator
- Maximum Polyphony
- 64 voices
- Sounds
- Total of 727 Sounds on EK-50 U
662 sounds from the original EK-50 + 65 new sounds specific to the EK-50 U
EK-50 U features new sounds with a focus on electric and acoustic guitars, electric basses, new brass, and drum percussion kits.
Total of 51 Drum Kits on EK50-U - 33 from the original EK-50 and 18 New kits
New PCM added for EK-50 U 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
- 88 types (173 variations)
- Styles
- 288 styles
2 intros, 4 variations, 2 fills, 1 count in/break, 2 endings, synchro start/stop, tap tempo
88 new styles added for EK50-U.
New Styles include favorite American genres such as Alternative and Modern Rock, Southern & Latin Rock, Country, Blues Reggae, and more.
New American styles were chosen, created, and tested with musicians in the United States.
EK50-U also includes an additional 88 new styles in addition to 200 original EK-50 styles.
- Demo Songs
- 16 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
- The Performance Record function for quick and easy recording, which has been well received on the Korg i3, is also included. (This allows you to record -save- your performance on the EK-50U as a WAV file)
- 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 × 4
- Metronome
- Tempo, beat, volume
- Tempo
- 30 - 240
- 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 supply
- AC adapter (included) or AA batteries (alkaline dry cells or nickel-metal hydride batteries) × 8 (sold separately)
- Battery life
- When using alkaline dry cells: approx. 7 hours
- Power Consumption
- 8 W (0.1 W on standby)
- Dimensions (W x D x H)
- 994 mm × 392 mm × 132 mm/39.13" × 15.43" × 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
- Accessories (sold separately)
- EXP-2 foot controller, DS-1H damper pedal, PS-1 pedal switch, PS-3 pedal switch, SC-EK/Pa soft case