One of the bigger cons of Pa series keyboard is styles / performances / program selection.

You have to press:
one button to choose operating mode (styles, programs, performances)
one button to select upper or lower banks group
one button to select the group
Pa60/80 shows its resources bank in groups of eight items, so you have to press another button once if your choice is from #9 to #16, twice if it is from #17 to #24 and so on.. Is Pa1X different in this?
one last button (or the touch screen) to finally select your choice.

Moreover, all ten style bank buttons and all ten programs/performances bank button have no light on them, and after a couple of screen changes for editing or whatever, you will soon forget your original selection.

I haven't played with a Pa1X, so things can be changed, and maybe Pa1X display will keep track of this "path of choices"...

Anyway, more buttons is (very often) better.

Another consideration about live usage.
Of course, you cannot completely foresee how your live show will go and where will it take you, because of people reactions, your mood etc etc.
So it is almost impossible to have everything you need or may need inside your board.

So, what KORG, YAMAHA etc etc should do, is give us a piece of software able to:
1) virtually configure your keyboard on the computer
2) download those configurations to the board, so that you can have a completely different instrument with a couple of mouse clicks.

Don't know how things are with Pa1X. As long as I know (please, Korg, correct me!) KORG choosed not to implement SYSEX in Pa60 and Pa80, so that software is a very complicated task.

Ciao

[This message has been edited by RicFreak (edited 08-05-2003).]