I had one for four months and sold it. I work for a Yamaha dealer and could get any Yamaha at 10% under cost and chose the Korg based on what I read from owners and the DEMOS. Sight unseen. I also had a Triton as the heart of my studio for years so I have a respect for Korg.

What I liked...with "Buts"

Its a great MIDI workstation......but if I wanted a workstation I would have bought one. I wanted an ARRANGER. Arrangers use STYLES. More on that later.

It has great features and a ton of them...But I found I wouldn't use most of them. The cross fader,The harmonizer, the XLR mike input,

It has some really nice Drums and some pianos...BUT I found the keyboard generally sounding a little RAW. The acoustic sounds paled in comparison to even the PSR900.

I bought an Arranger for studio use only. In that regard I liked the MIDI implementation but I would go into the store everyday and demo the CVPs, T2 and PSR900 then go home and hear the Korg. When the T3 cwas announced I decided to sell the Korg as at that time they were still being back ordered and I could and did get a good price on Ebay. After returning from Summer NAMM, where I played all the keyboards there, I chose the Yamaha.

I bought the Tyros for much much less as well which was a bonus and have been completely satisfied. The style library is in the thousands which is the very reason I chose an Arranger. Korg just did not have the style support and if I wanted to create my own styles I would buy a Motif and use the 6000 phrases and Arps to create my songs. I press a button on the T3 and Im on the Internet looking for,sampling, and downloading songs, Music Finder files and generic styles without getting up.

The Tyros has, IMO the best and most realistic acoustic sounds of all the boards I heard demoed or played live, I use software synths for some Drums and synthy sounds and other voices I like. Once I get the styles record into Sonar I can send the MIDI information to many places including back to the T3

I finally figured out the MIDI implementation and its different than a workstation and requires a little more forethought and templates but it is just as workable as any workstation in the end.

So there you go. Would I have paid $3500 for a Tyros 3 You bet. DO I miss the Korg or anyting about it. Nope. But I don't perform USING AN ARRANGER live. We will use tracks from it though and play 88 and guitar.

If I did have only one keyboard and had to use it live, the Korg is the better choice.
In the Studio the Yamaha Tyros 3 and a PC based studio has no peer.

I did get the owner of the Store to carry the Korg line and the Bose Systems (sfter I paid well above cost for both) LOL



[This message has been edited by Kingfrog (edited 12-14-2008).]