Originally Posted By john smies
"......Before you get excited, think. Do you have any Korg PA series after PA80/60/50? If you do, skip......"

As a matter of fact I have just purchased a Korg PA50sd to sit on top of my Ketron SD7, quite an impressive combination and on the cheap as the ketron was a secondhand as well....
Could not agree more about the Triton engine and the Korg arrangers starting with the PA1X. In those days I programmed very extensively for all of those models ( PA1X, PA 50/60/80/KMA) and I still have all of the goodies for those interested.
The PA50sd has the added advantage of the sd card slot whereas the sounds and styles are virtually identical to the PA1X.
Programmibility is most extensive and very deep and as a second board it is to be preferred imho to these new ducklings of Korg....

regards
John



PA 80 ( and of course 60/50/50sd/KMA) was direct Triton board (32 MB). Pa1x was Triton plus additional samples and RX. The first Korg arranger to play pads that can play loops ( not just single hits,unlike PA80 /60/50/KMA generation).MOTL Yamaha has been having that feature for along time. Korg made a right decision to add the feature along with great features like full blown sequencer and sound editing since 1993’s i3 to PA80.PA1x was also the first with Korg arranger with decent acoustic guitar strum styles/ song book. It was way ahead of the time.



Edited by jamman (01/13/20 01:10 AM)