Hi,

The new pa1-x is going to be like this, this was told to me by a KORG engineer, i also saw the full picture of it :

- big colored display
- 8 sliders(functions as volumeslider or drawbar or Master EQ)
- USB interface
- All new ROM sounds based on the new RX sampling technic.
- 16 MBRAM standard onboard, expandable up to 32 MBRAM(simm modules)
- Support for playing a MP3 track synchronised with the styletrack(the MP3 can be streamed right out of the Harddisk, no need to load it into the RAM memory first)
- Support for loading MP3 sample sounds
- CD writer
- 4 bus STEREO effects onboard(pa80 has 4 bus MONO effects) + ability for resampling sounds, so you have more then 4 effect busses
- 2 expansion slots for expansion boards
- first release will be 76-key pro version with same touch and feel like the triton
- ability for loading 128 sound patches(.pcg files)
- ability for loading 48 USER styles and direct disk loading
- FULL sampler onboard with Variphrase function
- multitasking OS, so you can load sounds while playing
- backwards compatible file format with pa80 etc.

- TC HELICON VOCALIZER ONBOARD!!!

this is all i know for now folks...