Hi John

Well.........actually nothing to come off of.haha. Seriously, John, I play those styles through my Tyros and they to me and my wifes ears certainly do sound better than the PA50. Some of this is personal preference I guess. Of course the Tyros sells for 3 times what the PA50 does, so I would certainly hope they would sound better.

The converted styles sound a lot better than they did just a few years ago. The PSR2100 has similar type sounds.

I found the PA50 to have some nice styles and especially liked the jazz organ sounds. Electric pianos were pretty good also. The other sounds don't do much for us out of the box.

My wife and I also thought your recordings on the PA50 sounded exceptionally good. But, you also spent a lot of time tweaking and programming, something I have no interest in getting involved in at all.

I also think the PA50/60/80 sounds are best suited for "modern" music. Meaning to me from the 1950's forward as compared to the old swing standards pre-1960ish.

So if one is doing "modern" music such as yourself and sunny, then they may even find the PA50/60/80 fine out of the box, or decide to do like you did. Or, maybe just use the converted styles in a Yamaha.

So that's where I'm coming from and quite frankly if you ever get a chance to download those styles from Joe Waters' site and try them in a Tyros I think you will have to agree.

I have never heard a PA1X but am looking forward to hear that as well as a G70 as I imagine they both sound pretty good.

So, really, I think you can see no offense was intended to Korg owners.

Best
Scott