Hi Folks,
I am new to this forum, but have been playing for quite a while. I was very happy to see that Korg announced a new flagship arranger and a 76 key one to boot. But when I am thinking of putting down $4,000 dollars for a 76 key arranger, I'm going to have to do some comparing. And for my money I think I'd be better off with the Yamaha PSR-S910. From what I can see, Steve McNally and the rest of the folks trying to sell this to us are trying to sell us the Vocal Harmony and the external speaker more than they are trying to sell us the styles and sounds in the keyboard. The styles are what matter to us most and from what they are showing us in all these videos, I'm not seeing much. If Korg wants to sell some keyboards they are going to have to do a much better job than they are doing at the moment.
I have owned the original Tyros the PSR-3000, and the Tyros3 all of which in my humble opinion sounded much better than the PA3x. And enough with the Long Train Running Demo - Is that all you have. I have also owned the Korg Karma, the Korg M3-73 and the M3-61 - I now have a Motif XF7 which I am in the process of trying to sell on E-Bay and Craigslist in NYC. I think I am going back to the arranger, but if KORG can't prove to me that it is worth $4,000 I'll just sell more stuff and get the Tyros4 and be done with it. To the folks at Korg - You have access to YouTube - Get on it and check out the Martin Harris Videos on the Tyros 4 and Peter Baartmans videos. These guys know how to sell a keyboard and not waste 20 minutes on the Vocal Harmony, no one really cares that much - All of the major keyboards have some form of Vocal Harmony - we get it - don't try to sell the keyboard with that nonsense. Make me believe that I want a PA3x for the Styles and the Sounds. The people that are trying to sell it now are just not convincing me.