At any rate this will all be Water behind the bridge soon as the new models come out very soon....

Dream on Donny !

Sure there will be a PA5X no doubt and possibly even late this year, at least a possible introduction. But before effectively hitting the stores we will be almost a year on. As to a follow up for the PA1000, note approx. 2 to 3 years......

But both you and Don have summed it up quite nicely, the difference with the PA4X is "balls " and 1800 bucks.
Still as mentioned before with substantial tweaking, adding some external samples ( free or paid for) and possibly the addition of the Musikant stick ( which I did and to the best of my knowledge so did Scott Yee) the PA1000 goes a long way to making one happy. AFter all it does have the added advantage , even over the PA4X of internal speakers and quite a good amplifciation , only slighty inferior to the much acclaimed amplification on the best PA ever, the PA800......

regards
John

Personally I think the next wave of technology regarding arranger kbs
styles driven etc, etc, and more will be broken and we will see something totally new,.....when and from who know one knows.....
but it will happen.