Convert a KORG Pa5X KST to a Pa700 SET
Pa5X Styles on a Pa700: Pa Studio Suite reads the KST and writes a SET the Pa700 loads, with the Styles, their own Sounds and samples, Keyboard Sets and Pads. The hard part on a Pa700 is memory, and the app shows you before converting whether it fits.
What comes over to the Pa700
- Styles, with their Variations, Fills, Intros, Endings, chord variations, tempo and mixer
- Own Sounds and Drum Kits the Styles use, with their samples
- Keyboard Sets and Pads
- SongBook: a list next to the new SET of every entry and where its Style went
Making it fit
A Pa700 has 128 MB of sample memory (the Pa700 Oriental 160 MB), against the Pa5X’s 4 GB. The app measures the SET for your exact model before writing it and shows what is over.
To get it in, it can write the samples Korg-compressed (the Pa700 loads them, at about half the size), copy only the samples the chosen Styles use, or you convert fewer Styles at a time. Nothing is cut without telling you: the report lists what is over.
Made for the Pa700
The Pa700 has its own factory Sounds, 12 User Style banks of 48 Styles and room for 512 own Sounds and 256 Drum Kits. Choose Pa700, Pa700 Oriental or Pa700 Musikant, and the Sounds and banks are planned for it. Where a Style uses a factory Sound your model lacks, the closest one is used.
Which license
Converting a Pa5X KST to a SET is part of Pa Studio Suite Professional and All Access.
Questions
Will a whole Pa5X library fit on a Pa700?
Often not all at once: the Pa700 has 128 MB for samples. The app shows the size before converting, can compress the samples to about half, and can take only the samples the chosen Styles use.
Does it work with the Pa700 Oriental?
Yes. Choose Pa700 Oriental: its own Sound list and its 160 MB are used.