Well, at least the M3 has benefited from the trickle down... Now that the Oasys seems off the page, about 650MB of sound sets developed for the Oasys are being given away FOR FREE to lucky M3 owners.

I will try to review one of these expanded M3's soon, and see if the additional sounds (although still no mention of how long it would take to actually LOAD them) make the difference. I still was shocked at how flimsy the knobs, sliders and especially the pads felt, though. Looks like Korg are taking a leaf out of the Yamaha arranger playbook... make it SOUND good, but make sure it won't hold up for ten years under heavy use.

In the meantime, I'm still shocked that anyone would prefer to use a lo-res tiny touchscreen to do entire audio/MIDI production on, rather than a glorious 30" hi-res computer display. No school like the old school, I guess...