I own both a G-70 and a PA1X and totally agree with you on this. The Roland's touch screen is excellent to use in just about every respect. The Korg's is far less satisfactory. Poor use of colour and contrast, too cluttered, poor response when pressed (sometimes have to have two or three goes to get items near the bottom of the screen to trigger).

I think Korg may have put too much effort into making the screen visuals "serious and professional" looking, rather than putting the emphasis on actually making them easy to use. Same sort of reasoning that produced many "must be all black, have tiny unmarked buttons, no speakers and a completely impossible operating system - otherwise it must be a kids toy" approach that has given us so many unneccesarily innaccessible keyboards over the years.

Don't get me wrong - of these two I think the PA1X is the better keyboard in most respects. However the Roland has it beat hands down for general ease of use and the touch screen design in particular.

Regards - Mike


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