The engine might be contemporary, but those samples are pretty much 10+ years old. A lifetime in dance music...

Just as open arrangers seem to have trouble without the TOTL content being provided for the user, it would benefit Korg to make a sampler load with the 'best of the M3' dance sounds and styles, which could be loaded OVER say the Ballroom ROM bank, or Bossa Nova sections of ROM styles (you can always load them back in later.

But a PA2 on the store shelves, with a bunch of REALLY good modern hiphop beats in it (and the cheezy oldies removed!) MIGHT be the thing to reawaken arranger respect amongst the young...

I still think some kind of arpeggiation is going to be needed, though. Curiously, all this takes is SOFTWARE, though. Korg COULD rebrand the PA line with this simple addition. Doesn't even need new hardware.

C'mon, Korg...