We redesigned the Style Edit area and introduced a new Record and Play switch for each track. As common practice in the most popular DAWs running on personal computers, before starting to record a track you can try and rehearse your musical idea to understand if it will fit.

We also reintroduced classic features like Delete Note, for easily deleting single notes while recording, and the Copy Track Settings feature, to copy all or part of the track settings between different Style Elements.

As another quality-of-life improvement, we added an Undo history function, that will let you recover in case something goes wrong during Style editing. You can go back up to five steps.

Pa5X is the only arranger keyboard featuring a handy and powerful Matrix made of sixteen big rubber pads. We now got the chance to add new presets, and make everything more flexible.
We added two totally new Matrix presets. The one named “Chord Sequence” lets you memorize up to sixteen Chord Sequences that can be triggered at any time with the sixteen rubber pads. You can prepare the Chord Sequences for a full song, and start it whenever you need it.
If you want, you can enable the Loop All option to play all the Chord Sequences in cycle. These Chord Sequences are always available, so you can access them even from different Styles and Songs.

When choosing the preset “Set List”, you can use the Matrix pads to select all the available SongBook Entries that can be seen in the SongBook’s Set List page. This gives you direct access from the control panel to the selected Set List.
To assign one of the available Matrix presets to the four preset buttons, just keep the preset button pressed a couple seconds, and that’s all.

The new operating system offers a stunning increase in the amount of samples that can be loaded. The 8GB of User Sample RAM (compressed from a linear 4GB) can now host over 53,000 samples, about 80% more from the previous 30,000. Together with this we increased the preload buffer from 260MB up to 420MB. To manage this huge amount of samples we even doubled the locations for User Sounds (up to 12 banks) and User Drum Kits (up to 6 banks).

This is not the only great novelty. Drums can now play Round Robins, a technology making the drums sound extremely realistic by removing unnatural repetitions, with up to four Round Robins assigned to each key.

Furthermore, we made the percussion’s dynamic range subtler, by increasing the number of velocity layers to sixteen, up from the previous eight. Each key can therefore play up to sixteen velocity layers and 4 Round Robins. This offers never-seen before flexibility in sound creation – and so in music.

To make programming easier, we decided to support the TX16Wx software sampler format. With this third-party tool, you can create huge sample libraries, going as deep as to balancing each Round Robin and automatically mapping samples. You can then load the resulting multisamples and drum kits into Pa5X, in a nearly-ready state. And – yes, you can also edit Pa5X samples and multisamples with it.