The weight is going to be an issue for any arranger player. Its stupid, yes i said stupid for any arranger keyboard manufacturer to market an arranger keyboard to an arranger forum and then denigrate the instruments that the 90% of the members use (that as it happens sound better as arrangers than the one being marketed)simply because it is made out of light weight durable material. Which is precisiely why the members bought those instruments in the first place ! A professional instrument is an instrument suitable for the working musician (pro) that uses it. It has nothing to do with the material it is made from.

I get slightly ticked off when the MS's potential customers provide feedback to encourage sales and the product designer , marketer/sales person is down right rude to them. Thats all kinds of stupidity !!!

There are many current and perhaps future updates. Why is this marketed as a good thing ? Its good if the updates are to correct bugs but if this is the case then it means the instrument was not ready when sold in the first place. Its good if it increases functionality but not if the increased functions are not what the Market have been asking for. Just so that we are clear, the one functionality that THIS market has been asking for from the MS product is better and more balanced sounds using the giga that come shipped with the product.How many of the updates delivered and promised for the MS are specifically in response to users request to improve the arranger function as above ? I am told there is an update coming that will do this but it unfortunately means that the instrument IS NOT currently ready for the market it is currently being marketed to and i am yet to be convinced by either the manufacturer, their demos, or existing MS users that have come on this site that there is proof that it is. If i am wrong then fine i will accept some critiscism with good grace (something others could learn to do perhaps).

And for the record i am a member of the korg forum and regularly have send emails to Mr Trammoni who is one of the product managers for Korg. He listens , deals with technical queries , and responds to product suggestions and updates which is why in December this year the Pax1 range will recieve an upgrade basically providing almost all the increased functionality that the PA800 has for FREE within the limits of the PAX1 hardware. Thats means that the polyphony and sampling limits remain but pretty much everything else is updated.When we critiscise the PAX1 on that forum (and we do from time to time) we have never been insulted or talked down to from the Korg Product manager because he quite sensibly recognises that our suggestions/complaints are "buying signals" and we just need the reassurance that our concerns are recognised (hence the Pa800 is lighter than the PAX1 and it is very much a professional keyboard). Bare in mind that Korg is probably one of the largest keyboard manaufacturers in the world. They dont do everything perfectly but the one thing i need them to do well is produce a market ready instrument designed and able to meet the needs of the market it is aimed at.

Other smaller manufacturers could learn lessons from this.