I agree with Steve. The only difference for me is that I still use my PA80 a lot. I was ready to return it within two weeks after I had purchased it, because the OS was so incomplete. Fortunately, the timing was right for me and OS 2.0 was released right before I was going to bring it back. It worked out for the best, because it's still my favorite arranger, for now.

Still, that's a strange way to market stuff. I don't agree with those who advocate patience or think that making a complaint is wrong.. especially if I've already plunked down a substantial amount my hard earned cash ( as a few of those overseas apparently have ). Nope. Not me. I want the product to do what it says " on the tin", meaning what was advertised..WHEN it becomes available for me to buy, not six months or a year later.

Minor fixes and upgrades are to be expected and I would welcome them. Major functions missing ? That is not acceptable to me. My PA 80 could not create internal song or style based sequences, user voices, or user styles in it's original OS version when I purchased it. Those are major features in an arranger. Many of the important functions didn't come out in OS upgrades until many months after the board was released.

I like the Korg arrangers a lot vs any of their counterparts, but I won't ever buy such an incomplete product again, or " hold my breathe " waiting for it to do what it's supposed to. It won't happen again, not to me. At least to my preferences and tastes, Yamaha has improved upon it's styles and sounds on it's latest releases, so I no longer see a big gap between the two. I'd like to wait for the PA1x speaker version to come out as a full featured board, not a beta board. If history repeats itself though, the PSR3000 will be likely be out and fully functional long before the PA1x speaker version has an updated OS that includes the abilility use of all major functions. If the PSR 3k has somewaht decent feeling keys and is fully functioanl before the PA1x is, I'll gladly buy it instead.

AJ