Synth,

The comparison of the day was the 740 vs the MZ, and as Tech says, for voices ( overall )and styles I would give the edge to the Yamaha's, but the 740 was a little light in the features department, and the MZ was way ahead in that area. The PSR 2000 has come a long way to improve in the features dept, and I'd rate it above the MZ, but if you get one with an original OS, you are probably going to be stuck with that OS for a while, and for me there were several problems. Right now mine is in limbo because the disc drive went bad in it and the tech himself found problems with the OS chip. There aren't any chips available here in the USA to replace the faulty ones at this time.

Tech,

The more I think of it, if the MZ has a lot of the features and operates like the KN5000, then I really want to find something in the KN line to look at. The thing I liked most about the MZ was the way it the features were laid out and the ease of access to all of them. It was a very simple board to learn and understand too.

There was one huge glaring problem for me with the sequencer in the MZ though. I did not like that I couldn't edit any of the "midi" note data that came from the accompaniment section of the board after I recorded a song in the MZ. All that could be edited were things like the chords and the variations, because that part of the song was recorded as a "Casio" type midi file, while the real time parts that were recorded on top of it were recorded in SMF format. I was able to get around that by recording directly to an external sequencer, but it kind of defeated the purposde if I wanted to record away from the computer. Is it that way with the KN 5000 as well ?

Korg AJ