Strikes me that the only positive reviews the PA5X is getting is from people that never had a PA4X, or to be quite frank, any previous Korg arranger.

You don’t miss what you never had, and you have no problem migrating data if you have no Korg data to migrate!

It’s mostly people who had a PA4x and expected the same quality of service and features that are the most vocal. Korg been making arrangers for 30 years, and despite some teething problems each model change, most people were up and running on them out of the gate, and pros were gigging with them within a few weeks.

The PA5X has changed all that, and to be frank, if Korg completely surprise me and bring out a PA6X (I truly believe that the 5x is the last arranger Korg will make) nobody with a working Korg is going to touch it with a barge pole. Not for a year at least! It’s very probable the bulk of Korg’s arranger owner base are legacy users. And they lost the trust of that base over the last three years.

It is very difficult to see a road back from here for Korg. They have no modern mid-line popular product from where TOTL users can be tempted to come from. They’re all too aware of the failure of the PA5X. Yamaha midline users have mostly got a Genos2 on their wishlist. Definitely NOT a PA5X! Very few people will drop $4000-5000 on a new arranger without spending much time on the arranger’s user group.

I believe Korg have come to the end of the line but have yet to tell anyone.