Whoa! Wait a cotton pickin' minute here. Are you guys telling me that the PA3X/PRO's release at NAMM (the LARGEST musical instrument trade show in the WORLD) was not the "official" release of the PA3X/PRO?? Although, I can see the logic of releasing it at NAMM to try and stem T4 sales until the PA3X/PRO actually hits store shelves although Korg's lack of 'professionally' produced demos may actually be causing more harm than benefit by using such a strategy, if indeed, that is Korg's reasoning for "pre-releasing" it at NAMM.

Simply put, poorly produced demos may have actually caused T4 sales to "spike" after people started hearing these lackadaisical PA3X/PRO demos where many of them sound like rubbish in my opinion. How can that be a good thing for Korg?? Yamaha must be laughing themselves silly as they behold Korg's whimsical handling of their next Flagship arranger. Laughing themselves silly "all the way to the bank" no doubt too.

Korg messed up big time, in my opinion, and only time will tell if they can actually redeem themselves from this self-inflicted debacle when Musikmesse arrives. On the other hand, when Musikmesse rolls around and Korg can't produce anything better than what's already been released so far Korg will ultimately take an enormous hit from their "lack of results" and will no doubt continue to lose market share to Yammie and others if you ask me. Arranger keyboardist's eyes will be glued on the Korg Musikmesse PA3X/PRO demo booth and depending on the outcome T4 and Audya sales could either skyrocket or come to a grinding halt. We'll have to wait a few more days to see if a "train wreck" actually occurs or not though. Korg could be sweating profusely though if they realize Musikmesse won't change people's opinion about Korg's latest flagship. If you see a close up of the PA3X/PRO demonstrator and you observe copious amounts of sweat dripping down his face you might want to go ahead and place an order for a T4 or Audya perhaps then huh. Time will tell as they say. Hopefully Korg can redeem themselves with several professionally produced demos uploaded to their website (if and when they do that, that is) and/or during the PA3X/PRO demonstration at the Korg sound booth at Musikmesse. Like I said, we'll have to wait and see.

All the best,
Mike

I wanted to reiterate though that there actually has been a couple PA3X/PRO demos that are quite acceptable with one of them being the Mirabella?? demo posted on youtube. I think the PA3X/PRO does have a lot of potential with the main problem being Korg's haphazard attempts at demoing it. And it is quite a bit less expensive than a T4 or Audya which certainly is one of its strong points obviously too.

All the best,
Mike

NAMM was in January. PA3X isn't released until June (at last report)...

If that WAS a finished product, what was the delay? No, anyone that thinks that the NAMM showing was anything other than a peek at a beta isn't really thinking this through.

AFAIK, there is not ONE single 'official' demo out for the PA3X. All we have are amateur videos of these beta units. Anyway, why are we going round this same topic once again? Until Korg put up 'OFFICIAL' demos on their official website, consider everything you see as just a beta peek...

Diki, we don't have anything else to do until our next gig, but speculate about new keyboards. LOL

Isn't that part of the fun?

Diki, they are already on sale in Europe!! Do you still think it's a beta? It WAS the finished product at NAMM, they (Korg USA) just were not expecting to be showing it. As I said the demonstrator only got it the day before NAMM...

No-one has reported they have got one yet...

Sure, they might be on sale, but does that mean they are in STOCK...?

Well, yes, that is true ....good point!

Ah well another week and we will all know hey

What is the rush?.......... just sayin'

What don't you enjoy about what you already have to play?.....

What do you think this Pa3x will acomplish that you can't do with the Pa2x?....

And finally will there be enough "CHANGE" to justify and upgrade?...

No rush here Donny, in fact I am not even buying one...just shootin' the breeze