Colin,

I thought you would have posted who needs a new Korg when you have a KMA are you thinking of buying an old KB.

Tony

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DonM

Hi Tony

Na I'm going for the PA600 in November, the weight is reasonable, it does everything the pa2x did and good bits of the Pa3x, seems like good value for the money. I just tripped over that demo posted by a guy who was selling a pa1x.

John

All the styles the Guys used should be on your Pa800 I.m sure they were on my old pa2x.

Col

one of the major problems with the Korg PA800 and the PA600 and a key reason why i would never buy one is the lack of the physical sliders . If you are a live player and i primarily am, then you cant alter the balance of the instruments in the mix immediately or as readily without physical sliders. Pressing buttons to reduce or increase the volumes in the mix is just not a credible alternative. Similarly if you play oragan at all it is virtually impossible to alter the drawbars in realtime like you would a real organ without the physical sliders. Although the later keyboards have DNC and the pa1x does not i have not been tempted to change my old workhorse just yet for very good reasons.

I think, at least for me, the PA3X and PA600 are the first Korg's I can really get behind. Going from 2 fills and a break to four and a break is a quantum leap in making style transitions smoother. I don't know if you can all remember that far back, but the 'jumpiness' of some of the style fills was a major talking point back then. The new Korg's are the first I have heard that don't have that stick out like a sore thumb, at least to my ears.

Oh, and the Chord Sequencer (or the '3rd Hand' as I think it better deserves to be called) doesn't hurt, either!

I am loving my new PA500 Musikant edition. Would get a PA3x musikant if the cash was there..not right now..

Sparky good luck with your New PA500M.........a wise choice!!

Korg is awesome!! loving my PA 3x 61!! it simply does everything and anything you need!

I wouldn't swap my Korg i30 for all the available keyboards on the market.

It's not the keyboard. It's the "Entertainer," or the "Vocalist" that matters. The audience could care less about which keyboard you use and how many sounds it has. They are all tone-deaf, drunk and or drugged up for the most part anyway.

Let's face up to the facts. For example, put Elvis up there strumming E, A, and D chords all night with a guitar with one sound, let me repeat that (one sound)and any of you with your super duper arrangers with 3 million sounds and 20,000 styles, who do you think they will like the best? Anyone with a brain the size of a pea can figure this one out.

If you and I sing both pretty close but you're cuter than me, you will be the most popular entertainer. Now isn't that true Russ? The biggest "Super Stars" of all time in entertainment are Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett.

Does anyone here really believe that any of these yo yo's today will be around entertaining for 60 years? Come on now, not a chance.