I’m lovin’ the Micro so far and am anxious to play it out to really see and hear for myself how well it plays. I never really used my other Korg boards much except the iX300 arranger. It was my first arranger and I thought at the time the styles were a little too full and sometimes hokey. The styles on the Micro (PA50) seem much better. I find my creative juices start to flow when I play them. Being predominately a SMF user, the Song Play section was a biggie for me. I finally think I’ve solved my problems in that area. But because the styles are so different than what I’m used to, I may experiment with using some of them to replace a few SMF files.
And last night, after about an hour of frustration, I started reading the manual again. Pages 73 and 74 just popped out at me. I printed them out, but before I could read them again, I picked up the Micro and followed their procedure – voila’, I’m loading a SMF AND I see the Performance sounds. Apparently, there is a screen before page 1 which contains this info. I’m saved. The more I play this thing, the better I like it. Maybe I’ll get me a big brother PA800 if things keep sounding this good.