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!??
Danny...
Thank you for taking the time to write this. I was in Guitar Center a few weeks ago and thought I'd buy the EK-45 for pocket change....until I read Dave and Fran's remarks about it.
Above that tier they had the PA-1000 which I thought I'd try the next time. My PA3x (76) is too heavy to carry around.
So YOUR review also just saved me 2K.
The styles....that's been my biggest stumbling block for the last 10-20 years and the reason I hang on to my 20 year old Roland E-300. The nature of the beast...they can't keep putting the same styles into every keyboard. So they "enhance (?)" each generation's styles...to the point you can't even recognize them anymore.
Either kids are making these styles up nowadays or the company just doesn't care...as long as they advertise the keyboard has a gazillion styles. Newer is not always better and in this situation, it DEFINITELY doesn't get better!