its an interesting question. I have been very very close to purchaseing the Korg PA1X . I currentley have the Yamaha PSR 8000. I went to a shop and played the PA1x and was really smitten by it. But then i went home and tried to reproduce some of the programming and styles that had so turned me on.My keyboard is probably ten years old now. But i was able to reproduce some of the styles quite easily and started to dig deeper into my board . So i asked myself the simple question. Is my prospective new keyboard giving me £1500 additional value compared to my existing board ?The answer was no..... So i started to spend time with my keyboard again, and i have realised that there are functions on the board that i never utilised because i never took the time to get to grips with it.

If there were no updates and no new keyboards we would become much more creative with the instruments that we have. And we would become experts on our machines and actually get more than £1500 worth of value from the boards we currently own. The technology does not make us better players.But familiarity and practice does