Samples and sounds are subjective, so no matter what any of us thinks about the ones in a particular board, what sounds good to me won't necessarily sound good to you and vice versa. I found a lot of the sounds to be pretty good, and so did some major mags.. That doesn't mean squat if the person buying one doesn't like the samples though. I myself don't care for some of Yamaha's samples. ( yet I find their boards to be very useful for live play ) In fact I got the MZ to go along side of the PSR740 because I liked the sounds I mentioned in my earlier post better than the ones on the 740, and it had a ton more features.

The bottom line is for me and probably some others, at it's price it could be a very useful tool. Besides, for the features, at that price, if I had a spare 650.00 dolars right now, I'd gladly use a sound module with it for the sounds I don't like ( and there are quite a few in the MZ ..and maybe less but always some in EVERY other keyboard I've ever played no matter what price ) If the MZ is basically a copy of the KN5000, this isn't necessarily a bad thing is it ? At the time of its release MZ was what, about half the price of the KN5000 ? Try to even FIND a Technics around here to demo... I don't think so .. and THAT to me is an unfortunate thing, because I had a Technics many years ago ( so long ago I've forgotten which model # ) and even then I thought it was a heck of a board for its time. I'd love to see the latest offerings.

Korg AJ

[This message has been edited by Bluezplayer (edited 03-08-2002).]