DonM, that certainly must be part of the reason you almost never see a Korg i-series kb for sale on ebay or sz..not only does nothing compare to them for live nav,
but they sound good. I own 2 is35's, the first one lost the lcd in the screen, and they couldn't repair and were out of parts, so they gave me the 2nd at cost. I can load from one to the other, and I can play gigs on the one with no screen..that's how easy it is to nav..just knowing what numbers on buttons represent.

Very disturbing to hear the pa800 is giving less nav, a lot more sounds/styles/memory/poly, and yet it doesn't blow the old kb's away in terms of overall sound impact. The e60 that i have that I hate the lack of well-designed player controls on sounds so good i find myself playing it for hours at a time. Maybe the pa800 sounds better than you think--you didn't hear Boo a/b the 800 vs his i30, did you? if not, maybe it was just 2 different conditions....

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