Hey Chas,

In many ways I loved the M3. The case, style, and ergonomics were smart and beautiful. I had been a Triton/Triton extreme owner previously so I knew the keyboard history very well.

I was hoping the M3 would bring with it a sensational Piano. I didn't find that to be the case. In order to get a decent Piano sound out of the M3, I had to bit-fiddle with the multi-samples and filtering. Some of the sounds were phenomenal, but the variety and selection quantity was quite low, especially compared to the well appointed TE76. I had felt the value was an issue at the time. Korg have since released many new banks of sounds for the M3 that were not available when I had it.

The other reason I was looking to the M3 was for the Karma features. The website demos at Karma-Lab blew me away. I had lot's of fun playing with those. However, I really didn't see myself as a Karma author, just a user.

So in the end I decided to go for the Pa2xpro which has almost the same look and feel as the M3, same chipset, but with arranger functions rather than Karma. The two boards really compliment each other very well.

That's my short version.
Al

[This message has been edited by kbrkr (edited 07-02-2008).]