Meet the Korg EK-50 CSA, featuring inspiring new Styles and Sounds focused on popular music in Latin America. The EK-50 CSA builds on the success of the original EK-50, adding authentic Latin Styles ranging from Modern Latin Dance to Mariachi, Banda, Salsa, Cumbia, and more. 

The EK-50 CSA is simple to use and allows your musical ideas to evolve effortlessly into complete ready-to-play songs. Simply put, the EK-50 CSA is an Arranger Keyboard with Latin flare that you can enjoy on any musical level.

The EK-50 CSA is packed with 686 instruments, 160 Keyboard Sets, and 356 authentic musical Styles that capture the essence of Latin music.

EK-50 CSA adds new sounds including trumpets, saxophones, brass, guitar, bass and even specialty instruments such as Sampoña and Charango, with a total of 39 custom drum kits and a complete MIDI GM2 sound set.

The ability to easily split and layer on EK-50 CSA means you can quickly combine your favorite sounds and save them directly in the Set List for quick access.

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.

Powerful 10W x 10W built-in stereo speakers can reproduce not only the sound of the instrument itself, but also sound from an external device that you connect to the input jack.

The EK-50U also works with AA batteries (sold separately), so you can play on the go!

EK-50 CSA offers a number of ways to easily capture your musical creations, and features convenient one touch recording. 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.

The EK-50 CSA is open-ended, which allows you to add additional Styles via a USB flash drive.

SPECIFICATIONS:

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 686 Sounds on EK-50 CSA
662 sounds from the original EK-50 + 24 new sounds
EK-50 CSA features newly added folk instruments including a Sampoña (flute) and charango (guitar) from the Andean region of South America. There is also a quena (flute) from the Peruvian region as well as other new instruments including trumpet, saxophone, brass, guitar, bass, and other instruments popular in the region.
Total of 39 Drum Kits on EK-50CSA - 33 from the original EK-50 and 6 New kits.
New PCM added for EK-50 CSA totals 36 multi-samples and 85 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
2 intros, 4 variations, 2 fills, 1 count in/break, 2 endings, synchro start/stop, tap tempo
New authentic Styles have been voiced by programmers in Central America - including "Cumbia," "Mariachi," "Banda," and "Norteño", which are popular genres of music in Mexico and Latin American countries.
In total, EK-50 CSA adds 100 new Latin Styles
256 styles from the original EK-50 remain, covering a wide range of musical genres from around the world (48 Latin styles have already been implemented here as well).
Music Styles More than 16 styles

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

Scales - 11 types (including user scale)

Controls - Power button, VOLUME knob, joystick, STYLE/[MUSIC 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, 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