I have never had a freezing problem whatsoever with the Pa800 & I've played many many gigs with it...reading these forums some players really abuse the Kb and are running things like defective, corrupt files, & samples thru it that can upset the OS resulting in problems....but under normal use you'll have many years of problem free playing for sure.

Steve you've Trumped us all!!!
Im happy for ya buddy.....RI watch out there's a new sheriff in town!!!

His name is "Steve" !!! "D

As mentioned by Steve above, I was speaking of the PA2Xpro. I ,neither, have had a single problem with the PA800.

Bernie

The problems are related to sample loading..?

How many of the people that have no problems to report have actually used the sample loading feature much?

Let me shed some light on the sample loading issue.
I received my order of PA2Xpro's and PA500's yesterday. Since the PA800 came out with version 1.02 or 1.03, there has been a note when downloading the directions and new benefits telling users to delite the global folder when loading any sets made previous to this version. Then, once loaded, you can save this set on your thumb drive or hard drive. If you don't do it this way, you chance having lockup problems.
I have now loaded over 10 sets of different samples and multisamples into my PA2XPRO on the sales floor without any insstances of locking up. For those of you only playing western styles and sounds and never load samples into the keyboard, you won't know what I'm even talking about. For many middle eastern musicians who load custom sets of iranian, arabic, etc. sets of styles and loops, you must follow these directions and you'll have no problems.


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George Kaye
Kaye's Music Scene
Reseda, California
818-881-5566
www.kayesmusicscene.com

Good to hear...

George thanx for the clarification on this issue..

Hi,
haven't actually sampled or loaded individual samples like drums, basses etc
but I have loaded some audio drum loops which I've sliced & created pads from.
I've had no problems .

As Donny mentioned a number of the members that have had problems appear to be constantly loading other members user files including stuff from earlier model keyboards like the pa1x.
When the PA's load & save as a .set file, the set can include global settings, samples all sorts of stuff.
They probably don't have a choice as a lot of the styles they're sharing seem to be oriental styles which include drumkits & samples.
If one doesn't understand the system & you start loading other peoples stuff, they may be getting in a bit of a mess if they load stuff incorrectly..
When I share I style, I only save the style itself, & warn people to load the style as an individual style , not as a set.

best wishes
Rikki

Ok, so I am getting my first Korg the PA1X this week and know very little about all of this. I have been playing a PSR3000. Does this mean that if I find what I call styles for the PA series on this forum or the KorgPA site that they can't be loaded onto the PA1X or that I must follow some mysterious ritual to get it all to work?

Hammer

Steve, good for you. The PA2x pro sounds like a dynamite keyboard. You'll love getting reacquainted with the 76-note keyboard. Soon you'll be able to give us a 1,2,3 overview of the PA2x, G-70 and Tyros II. We've both had our share of keyboards lately, but I think you and I will be sticking with our respective boards for a good long time (in SZ arrnger time of course).

I'm just wondering how much longer Yamaha can go on without offering its own 76.