Hi Lucky
all sorts of editing that can be done fairly easily.
The one I mentioned about cutting short the style part, simple as in record mode, scrolling the pattern length from 8 bars to 4 bars, it cuts out the last 4 bars of the pattern.
To delete the first 4 bars instead of the last 4, slightly more complex, you go to record mode, then edit mode & cut the first 4 bars. You save this as a user style.

A fairly simple way of customizing a style.

Other stuff you can do fairly easily, is to copy style tracks within the same style or from another style ie
just say variation 1 you're quite happy with, but variation 2 the bass pattern is a bit too busy, you can copy the bass pattern from vari 1 to vari 2 fairly simply.
Or just say, vari 1, 2, 3 are ok but vari 4 is just too busy & you'd never use it. Copy one of the other variations to vari 4 & modify it slightly, by copying a different drum track or bass track, in short, modify the style to suit your songs.
If you do find a style works better without certain tracks ie too busy, delete it.
It's no good just muting accomp 5 when in style play mode. Muting affects all the style parts, so if you mute accomp 5 for vari1, it will also affect vari2,3 etc

There's lots of user spaces & favourites spaces, so unless you use 100's of styles, you shouldn't run out for customizations.

I always put my permanent customizations into a Favourites slot & I keep my User spaces for styles I'm currently editing or auditioning. When I've finished editing & I know I want to keep a style, I save to Favourite slot.

I noticed you mentioned Roland?? in that case maybe you've not used pads??

Pads are great for adding additional sounds to drum & percussion tracks. There's also string pads, piano pads all sorts of stuff.
Pads can also be created from style tracks ie you've got a great guitar track in one of the styles & you'd like to create a pad out of it. Simple as copying style track to pad , a couple of adjustments like , is it a looping pad ( continuously plays in sync with style) or a one shot pad ( effect like a crash cymbal or a drum roll or if you want to get really creative down the track, you could use a wav sound).

Also style tracks can be copied from pads. So if you happen to have a pad that works perfectly with a style ( and you have a spare track) you can copy that pad into the style, saves having to press pad button.

There is one must have to my mind , & thats a pedalboard. I've had my EC5 since my i2 back in 1992. I sold keyboard , but for some reason never sold the pedal board. Must have been destined to own another korg, even if it was 15 years down the track. Makes things easier being able to assign certain functions to a board.

With the Audya nearly due, it's wise to wait & see what suits you better.
I dashed out & bought the Ketron SD1+, my other choice was the T2, stupidly I didn't wait to check out the T2.
Not knocking the SD1, but for me the style editing functions that I require , just didn't exist.

I do have some Ballroom & Bigband styles I've collected, happy to send them, but don't know if the store would be happy to load them for you to try??
Possibly some could still do with a bit of tweaking as I haven't gotten round to it yet.
I basically kept the ones with potential & dumped anything that was really bad.

best wishes
Rikki
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Hi Rikki,

The more I read here, the more I’m starting to get interested in that PA2xPro again. I’m looking forward to another session on it, though, at this point, I’ll definitely wait until the Audya comes in.