Hi mdorantes,
I just happen to be lucky enough to have a large Korg dealer only an hour away.
I'd still be waiting another month or two if I'd wanted to buy one from my normal supplier. Stocks from what I gather are still be scarce.
A couple of things that may interest you, the XG drumsets on the korg sound pretty similar to my xg psr 1500 kits. May mean a lot less tweaking for you if you're recording same styles for both keyboards. Also you've got the 4 variations on the korg now.
They've also improved Guitar Mode. Before all you had in a guitar mode track were all the strums, fret noises & the 6 individual strings, now you can also record regular midi notes on the same track ie the lower section of the keyboard used to have the individual notes that triggered the strums, the upper end of keyboard triggered the noises, middle there was basically nothing . Now there's 2 or 3 octaves of normal guitar sounds. I used to have record my strums on 1 accomp track, then if I wanted midi notes for that track , I had to waste accomp 2, now both can be recorded on the same track in short a Guitar mode track can also be used a a guitar midi track.
They've also added a function that shapes the chord,. When I figure out what the hell that means I'll let you know. I'm not a guitarist. haahaa I think it gives more control of the strums and how many notes the strum plays, & which note the strum starts from or something. Until I actually fiddle around with it a bit, I can't be sure. The manual without hands on testing, doesn't really explain it all that well. .
Thank you very much for that info, too bad that all the Phoenix Metro music stores do NOT carry the PA3X, only a couple had a PA 500 and another a "gently used" PA 800.....