Hello awesome forum,

Firstly and most importantly, I hope I am finding you all well.

So perhaps a little late to this but maybe someone out there may find some interest to my initial experience of the PA1000 from using my PA900.

I bought the PA1000 over the weekend and it arrived this afternoon and Ive spent half the evening on it with very mixed reactions.

So I will start with I feel what's good.

Cosmetically it looks lovely and slick, the lighting of it oddly reminds me of my GEM WK8.
Amplification is certainly more powerful than the 900.
New and improved sounds in some categories.
Drums feels like they have more of a "punch" than before.
The screen display is more flexable with the rotation thing.
Plays Pa3x styles quite flawlessly.
Midi files sound really good, I tested a few and not many needed a lot of tweaking, but when tweaked with the keybaord primary sounds they sound even better.

OK so to the cons, and oh dear there are so many, this is only after a few hours on it.

Keybed is slipperly, seems to have a light feel but with some weird weight balance to compensate. Nowhere near the PA900 feel.
Display although you can rotate it, the resolution seems lower compared to the 900. The 900 is in colour compared to the 1000 looks low res with an ugly monocrome yellow to me. Really dissapointing.
Touch screen is very inaccurate. I am finding myself having to offset my finger lower or higher than what's on the display to accurately select anything. This has really caused me grief today. Never had this experience before on the 900 and even the Pa1x.
Styles selection. Oh my gosh. Korg have completely butchered this. Yes the PA1000 has new styles - but I feel that a lot of them are awful and confusing (sorry but they are). Dance styles, wtf!?? What is that about.. my PSR S975 smashes this category.

Also to make it worse, the fantastic styles from the PA900 have either been badly updated (80s Dance does not sound so 80s anymore) or removed altogether, so many lovely styles from the 900 are gone. Why have you removed the lovely Celtic styles!!!! They have also removed what I felt was the best thing about the Korg styles which was the Unplugged Category - totally gone.. Shocking....

Listen to this demo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYWtYdi3rYI

This is a style from the 900 called Unplugged Slow, in my opinion one of the most beautiful styles of the 900 and yet its not in the 1000. Yes I know you can easily load user styles to the keyboard to play past styles but for someone whos first experience of a Korg keyboard are going to miss out on some truly great styles.

There's probably more but I'll leave it here for now. I would honestly say the PA900 is the better board so it looks like I will be keeping both.