Thanks Tim, I know that meanwhile several of you are using large parts of my resources on their Micro and I am proud of it. Unless you can afford a Kronos/PA3X I would go along with Donny in "not selling the PA500 short ". But the same goes for the Micro. As a matter of fact only since Thursday I have had a Micro at my dispostion from the Dutch distributor and it is sitting on top of my PA800. I have connected them both MIDI and AUDIO and going thru one of my favourite set of resources for the Micro ( the 2006 set) I am in awe again of the quality of this "obsolete, ten year old technology " keyboard. Some of the stuff that I programmed seems to sound even better on the Micro than on the PA800, which even I find hard to believe.

As to the PA500, in 2010 I programmed extensively on the PA500 and later on I did the same on the German version, the PA500musikant.
I am grafetul for your donation a few weeks ago for my huge package of Micro software and as such will be pleased to send you my pa500 new set of resources for free. Contrary to what some people may think, it is all about the music and not about the money.......Check out your mail.

Some people, very few admittedly, are of the opinion that e.g. the Micro sounds good enough as it is out of the box. That is absolute nonsense.
If I listen for example to the Micro with the factory registrations and afterwards with one of my sets, the difference is night and day. That is not to say of course that my programming is to everyone's liking cause there is no accounting for tastes.But one surely will be able to digest things that one like from whichever set of mine. The same holds good for the PA500 Resources set, which , I hope , you will be able to confirm here in a week or two...............Enjoy !!

regards,
John Smies