Originally Posted By wrinkles303
I have a yamaha e463, korg pa600 and recently bought a roland bk3 from ebay. Im not going to get in
a “my arranger is better” discussion. For me,my music and my live performance, the korg is setup for my live performance with special styles I made and edited factory styles. I added the yamaha for the yamaha
specific styles that I couldn’t duplicate on the korg. Together they work well.
So I ran across the bk3 at a great price, I started to play around with it and set it up with my song list and edited styles to fit my songs. I find myself playing the roland more due to a better mix in the styles that fit my songs . The fills are smoother and I seem to navigate faster on the fly compared to the korg and yamaha. The korg is great as far as making it your own style and sound but the time I spend doing that takes away from learning new material. So I use the roland for 90 percent of my styles and the korg for lead instruments and the yamaha is in the corner not being used at all. Each to their own I guess. I was surprised on how my rig ended up like this.



Pa 600 is way above the league of e463. psr sx700 which is in the same league of Pa600/700 will give you different results. Again only talking about western arranger styles for live play ( not talking about sound editing, sequencer or song book playback of smf/ mp3, where Korg is better ). MOTL PSR slays Korg in simple usable styles IMHO ( as my experience having more than 30 years as both arranger player ( duo/solo) and as live band KB player). ( I have TOTL korg and older TOTL yamaha).


Most of the Korg users and sales are from/ to middle east and balkans. Western Korg players mostly use the sequencer or use Korg as playback machine ( mainly of course with some exceptions) other than extensive use built in Korg arranger styles ( or converted yamaha styles to Korg which are not so great due to mega voice issue).


There is no better keyboard. Only better in different departments. We choose depending on our gig’s demands. Style usability ( for western music, not mid east/ ethnic or balkan music) , availability and acoustic sounds goes to Yamaha hands down. Deep sound / style Editing/ drum punchiness / synth/ pads/ organs/ certain EPs and sequencer goes to Korg.


Edited by jamman (03/13/22 09:50 AM)