I would like to know how good the Korg PA50 is please in realation to arranger keyboards in its price ranger today. Is it good for live performance ? How well suppported is it for styles etc.

Korg Pa50

Except for the microArranger's smaller physical size and weight, it and the Pa50 are exactly the same. Though the TOTL Pa2X/Pa3X have more advanced sounds and features (touchscreen, songbook, chord seq, tc helicon vh, DNC voices, etc) I think both the Pa50 and microArranger remain a good value for its budget price range and fine for live gigging once you set up performances. As far as styles go, Though they cover most all genres, I feel the Pa50/microArranger's strength is in more modern pop rock, and country genres. Yamaha arrangers support a much wider range and far greater number of styles (including lots of 3rd party) and sound more studio produced, versus a more "dynamically live" Korg arranger style sound, with Korg styles especially suitable for live performance to emulate the sound of playing with a live backup combo. btw I own both a Yamaha Tyros 4 and a Korg microArranger and appreciate the unique benefits of both. Scott

As much as id love a Tyros 4 its way out of my budget. At the moment I have a solton ms60. Looking at arrangers in the PA50SDs price range. But the PA50 still has additional styles available though. It dosnt sound tiny then ?

There are a lot of additional styles available for the Korg PA50SD. Sound thin? It is the best sounding arranger in this price range. It sounds like the Korg Triton synth. Same synth engine.

Thats good. Have looked on youtube but the clips dont really do it justice. Didnt want to get one and it sounded like a cheap casio or something.

Have you listened to the demos on http://www.korgpa.com/en/products/arrangers/pa50sd/pa50sd-demo.html

I will do. They are good for a gig enviroment through a pa then.

Yes

Think im making a good choice. plus sd cards will be alot quicker than floppy disks.