Diki,

I traded my PA800 for the Ketron after listening to web demos and testimonials from other users. I also read all the comments on Sonic that pretty much were very positive. Pour in a few other comments from past users that raved about the sounds and styles - well, I was expecting good things.

I unpacked it, set it up on my kitchen counter, turned it on and became extremely ill, very fast.

The styles are VERY glitchy - which would end it right there. The supposed unplugged - a joke at best - nothing I could ever use in style play - thin and bodiless. The Riff - good idea if you could play your own chords! The sounds? Plain awful. Thin guitars, weak acoustic piano (and on the split - even worse). Horns, weak. FX to the max to mask everything. The whole thing sounds very hollow - hard to explain, but sounds like one of those cheap Williams/Suzuki digital pianos.

As mentioned, I traded my Korg PA800 for it and lost, big time. The Korg sounds like the ultimate dream machine in comparison. I tried to get my deal back, but no way - I'm sure the other owner was happily washing his hands to rid this thing too.

To say my opinion is subjective is an insult (not that anyone has), but I can assure everyone that THIS particular keyboard has some serious issues.

zuki