Sarah,
What's your style of music? Are you into more modern styles, thus require a board that will fill that particular need both in terms of sounds, and styles, or are you into more traditional styles?

The Korg PA-50's styles (in my opinion) have a more modern and updated sound to them, but the board does work well for more classic traditional styles too. If you're into synth sounds, and want to edit them as well and dig into the acoustic sounds (tweeking them to your liking), then I think the PA-50 has a better synth engine.

Again, all we can do is suggest things. If you can..., try to get your hands on both models to test run them (local music store if they carry them).

I test drove the PSR-3000, and it wasn't to my liking (which doesn't make it a bad board either).. Different strokes for different folks

Squeak

[This message has been edited by squeak_D (edited 06-19-2006).]