The thing Jonny is, having only had the PA4x for a few months, I imagine that you barely scratched the surface of what it could do, and consequently didn’t really miss what you hadn’t used when it was missing from the PA5x…

I’ve said before, most PA5x users that are brand new to the Korg brand are pretty happy with it. They haven’t invested a lot of time learning and using the advanced features, although I find it surprising that a missing easy ‘capture’ recorder didn’t make even new owners mad they couldn’t easily make a sequence from a style! And let’s not forget, by ‘new’ owners, we’re talking about some who have put up with this basic loss for TWO YEARS! That’s not a new owner in my book! 🥺

There’s still MUCH from the PA4x still missing, a laundry list of unfixed weirdness, and a lot of work to realize the potential of some of the new features. Back in the day, after two years of a new arranger, most moved on to talking about what might be coming next. Not still waiting for basic stuff from the previous model…

Korg needs their existing customers to migrate to new models, not just those new to the Korg brand, and they’ve pretty much scotched that for most existing customers. Again, back in the day, most of us would happily pre-order the next model of our favorite manufacturer sight unseen. Today, I think most PA4x long term users wouldn’t buy a PA6x until someone else did and found out what was wrong or missing first.

That’s a bad situation marketing wise. Yamaha don’t release a TOTL Genos until it actually IS better than the previous one, not release one and then say that ‘in future’ (whatever that means!) they’ll get around to making it better…

Another botched release (say a new MOTL) of a half finished product may very well kill the brand…