Hi Frank,
I know, but I'm just a keyboard junkie at heart.

Took me months to get my new laptop setup ( Win7 caused problems with some of my old software) all but had it up & running, I tripped , dropped it , broke the internal hardrive ( amazingly our insurance covered for stupidity ) worst part was when I got it back I tried to load in my back ups & discovered my 6 month old OMEGA back up drive was corrupted.
Fortunately I still have most of my programs on various disks, but, I didn't have the enthusiasm to start all over again. Now I've got 2 Back Up Drives.

Thank you 124,

only thing is, I'd become a Playstation 3 widow.

I can't beleive it, hubby's become a Playstation 3 JUNKIE.
I downloaded Socom for him & finally talked him ( after 3 years of playing on his own) into giving playing online a shot.
Within a week he had a headset, he's taken over our 60 inch tv which luckily splits into 2 screens.
He's got 3 feet of it & I get to watch 12 inches in the corner.
I get the tv volume, he has the headphones. Hard to tell who he's talking to at times, me, or his new found buddies.
It's brilliant. He finally understands how someone can get addicted to a hobby. haa haa

Hi Lee,

currently I'm running my keyboard thru a set of old stereo speakers , not ideal as it colours the sound. They didn't have the speakers that go with it in stock.
A lot of the styles are still appear to be the same as on the PA800 ( except the extra variations), I haven't had a chance to do a comparison yet, I still have my PA800 for time being, so I'll be able to compare.

The new 4 variation + break setup is great. You can have the automatic fillins like the yammies, or you can press the dedicated fill buttons yourself.

For me, just because a keyboard may be missing some styles that I like on another brand, wouldn't put me off buying it. I don't mind spending the time converting , editing etc. I'd be lucky to use 10% of the styles of any keyboard I've owned. For me personally, the style creation functions are the most important . I have a few favourite piano styles I convert from one keyboard to the next. I discovered I can do some simple guitar styles using Guitar Mode. Basically I like to fiddle round doing my own thing. The XG drum kits are going to be really handy for my psr conversions. I won't have to spend ages manually converting xg drum tracks to suit korg.
Discovered that some of the styles like Hollywood & Show styles etc ( on the PA800) really work quite well with some of the old showtunes I like at nearly half tempo..

You're going to have to work out your priorities. I was really tempted into buying a Yamaha, because I really like the styles, but, I know I wouldn't be as happy with it's style creation functions as I would with the Korg. I'm more of a technology junkie than I am a musician.

One thing I've learnt over many years a good musician can make a crappy keyboard sound great, a bad musician can make a great keyboard sound crappy. I don't demo, haahaa.

Try & see both before you make up your mind, or you'll always wonder if you made the right choice. The T4 sounded brilliant, even though the guy demoing it for me at the store wasn't exactly what I'd call a good musician, there were a few noticeable bloopers haahaa.

Thanks Everyone,
I'm sure I'm going to have a ball. New things to learn. I didn't have the mp3 player on my PA800, so a new function for me.
Guitar mode has been improved ( next generation) so my guitar style tracks may improve. I may get past just strumming.

John,
it has been years since our old Technics days, nice to see a buddy with a Korg. Hope you're enjoying your PA800. I've still got mine for time being, no rush to get rid of it.

If you need any PA800 styles, I collected some thru several sources, some may need a bit of a tweak. I also have a few I did myself ( conversions, mix n matches etc), the link for those is below my messages at korg forums.

Hi,
I've been going thru some of the country styles.
A catergory that some owners said was a bit light on. There were originally 16 of them, now there's 21.

I've dumped my old stereo for a pair of Yamaha self powered monitors I forgot I had. They certainly sound better for time being. I managed to connect the PA800 & the PA3X thru them at the same time so I could do an A/B comparison.

The PA3X playing the identical country style on the PA800, to my ears, sounds much better. Smoother , more realistic, maybe better balanced mix of instruments, I don't know quite what, just sounds nicer. When I get a chance I'll do a list of what styles are totally new & which ones are rehashed. I'm guessing may also be that they've swapped some of the normal midi guitar tracks for guitar mode tracks ( which sound far more realistic).
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Rikki, congratulations on your move up to the new TOTL Korg Pa3X arranger.
I'm looking forward to learning more about it's cool new and enhanced features as you discover and use them in your music making.
Merry Christmas in July.

Congratulations Rikki! Still waiting for mine, very limited availability in US still. Thanks for all your observations on the differences.

Rikki,
Considering your need..I think you made a very wise decision. I too am/was a more techi, than musician....Now I feel the need to change that...and learn more music, play more and tweak & fiddle less.
This is tough for me because in all walks of like I tend to be very technicle. Giving up the Korg PRO editing & functions would be difficult, but I may force myself to do it.

One thing you could do to help me....compare the Orchestral voices to the PA800...I use all thos a lot as well as Piano.
How do they compare? do they have glitches in them when you play note -note slowly right up/down the keybed?
Are they very realistic?
I know it will be a subjective thing, but I value your input.
Thanks,

Hi Rikki
I'm happy for you getting your new key board, I did like the Korg pa 800, now John has my Korg, the one thing I do miss is the song book, I did buy the tyros 4 and ya I do like it lots, my thing was all the styles , I still liked the drums and mixer better on the Korg also, for myself the T4 has worked out better but again I think different strokes for different folks both Key boards are great....... Paula

Paula, Lee here...
How do you like the lead voices and especially the Orchetral stuff on the T4 as compared to the PA800??
Thanks,