All user reviews of 3/5 for the Korg PX4D

A box of conventional design. Adjustment gain, bass, treble, and six groups of effects chain, with more than one active group effect: dynamics (compression, autowah, etc..) Amp Simulator (guitar or bass), speaker simulator, modulation (chorus, flanger, pitch-shifter, etc.)., delay, reverb. 100 user programs. A drum machine and synth bass, non-programmable, but with a reasonable number of patterns. Function "jam" to play a recorded loop. The box does not connect to a computer.

The effects are editable, but very briefly: grosso modo one-parameter effect - for an amp, a single setting, that of the mediums, for an enclosure, presence control, etc.. You can not specify the length of a delay in ms - must hit a key twice to indicate the desired range. You can adjust the volume of a reverb, but not its duréee or its color.

UTILIZATION

No complaints on this point the case is very simple and natural control, and I had to read the manual to make use of the function jam.

SOUND QUALITY

To register, totally inadequate. I like the sound with a lot of compression, lots of sustain, and just a dash of distortion - as little as possible, just to support the sound of a double-coil and make a little more singing, at the limit of its clear. Exactly the sound that it is impossible to achieve with this camera, regardless of the settings ...

Unless you waive treble and boost the mids with a bandpass filter, the distorted sounds are crisp, closer to a distortion pedal plugged directly as an amplifier. Compression is noisy and inefficient. The simulation of acoustic guitar is not too badly made, but the chorus or flanger effects are difficult to use because they can not set anything other than their volume. By pushing back the settings, the sound is closer to that of a jigsaw Marshall amplified on a transistor than to that of a tube amp ... In short, this thing is not at all what I wanted.

One can, of course, use it to work with headphones ... close to a restriction: in the "jam", even recording a single measurement, the sample rate is so low that the loop is barely audible so the signal is distorted.

OVERALL OPINION

Housing enough to work alone, with headphones, with a drum machine - compact, easy to adjust, but useless for recording, and therefore perhaps a bit expensive for a multi-purpose. If it again, I'd take something else.