As far as I can tell, this update only addresses a FEW missing features, albeit big ones: the loss of the Quick Record feature and the ability to make styles from SMF’s, but there’s a laundry list of several PAGES of issues up at Korgforums that are not mentioned.

For me personally, with the ‘two styles at once’ feature being the REAL groundbreaking PA5X feature, no mention of any fixes and improvements to that is a bit disappointing as there are many things that stop it from realizing its (amazing!) potential. To be useful, ALL settings of mutes and choices of fills, intros and endings need to be stored in the Songbook, and both styles should start in sync EXACTLY how you want. That’s currently not the case, there’s a LOT of stuff you have to do manually each time. Fine if you’re a bedroom jockey, but on stage, totally inexcusable…

But in the end, so much depends on the word ‘soon’, which I believe translates into Japanese as ‘we have no f*cking idea when’ because it’s been coming ‘soon’ since January… 😂🙄🎻