My new/used £160.00 KMA arrived yesterday afternoon.

I had forgotten just how easy they are to play, small keys accepted, everything is within easy reach and for what some people consider to be a toy the sounds/styles are really excellent, mind you they are a shrunken PA80 which was the Korg TOTL arranger at one time .

I already had a large collection of styles generic and song specific so I've had a great time sorting out the wheat from the chaff.

Some of the backing tracks I use were created from Midi files on the G70 but they sound every bit as good on the KMA, I'm chuffed to bits, what a great bit of kit for peanuts and I can lift it with one hand

The guitar is my other new toy it's made in Korea by the Saine Company (Shine)

Keep you posted

Col

Welcome to the world of Korg.

Good luck Colon....it must feel good to have your KMA back again...

enjoy

Col,
I absolutely love my KMA! I use it live on gigs every so often and the audiences
just love it's sound. I purchased John Smies resources for mine and boy do they make a huge difference. Anyway, glad to see you back on the forum.

Deane

Musical Memories, It's actually welcome back, I've been using Korg for years it's only recently I strayed to the G70 just as an experiment.

Donny, yes it feels good, I'm much more comfortable with Korg, each to their own I suppose.

Hammer, I've had several Korg boards but for some reason, size weight whatever, I have an affinity with the MicroArranger.
I Don't gig with the keyboard any more but I will use it quite a lot at home if only to create my backing tracks.

Just a quick tip: I don't know if you use the Pads at all but I just remembered you can set the pads to switch the right hand and lower voices on or off, I found this very useful similar to the dedicated buttons on the Pa600.

The first time around:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfCIbyu48y0

Kind Regards

Col

I remember that as one of the first times I ran into you on the Internet. Sounds good.

I just had a go round with a Korg PA 600 which I rented for a month. But at this point I think I'll just keep using my PSR S750 and get reacquainted with my old PA 80 which is pretty much what you have with your MICROARRANGER.

God Bless,
Don

Don ... and save those pennies for a Pa900 ...

Love the new guitar, it looks fantastic. Hollow body and Bigsby type wang bar give it a very classic look. How do the pickups sound?

Hi Nigel

When I bought it the previous owner had replaced the Bigsby with a solid tailpiece and it had a Rosewood bridge. The tone was very Jazz like. I refitted a new Bigsby and at the same time fitted a roller bridge which seems to have sharpened the tone somewhat but it still is quite mellow, it needs a touch of EQ to brighten the tone for Rock. Really good quality build I'm well pleased with it.

Col