A Keyboardist should NEVER sacrifice Sounds for features. Okay, that is a good point but if the Pa1X/Pro which apparently has absolutely fantastic sounds, should we also have to sacrifice features? In other words, the sounds are there, ie., Fantastic Sounds on the Pa1X/Pro, but they have scaled back one of the most important FEATURES for an Arranger Keyboard; an abundance of Polyphony! Korg deliberately decided to make the Pa1X/Pro to have 62 note Polyphony. I consider their decision an extreme lack of foresight on their part. The Pa1X/Pro could have been the new Arranger World's Monster Keyboard supplanting any and every thing else on the Professional Arranger Market including the Tyros, Ketron SD1 Plus, 9000Pro and Technics KN7000. But they choose to limit the Pa1X/Pro's viability and acceptance in the Arranger Keyboard Market by providing it with a miserly amount of Polyphony.

Sometimes I think these Keyboard Manufacturers don't necessarily WANT to sell a bucket load of Keyboards to the masses. They just want to tease us, squeeze us, manipulate the market, anger us, frustrate us, and all the while laugh at us in our predicaments. I pray to God I am wrong but that is the impression I get sometimes.

I've said it once and I'll say it again: "the customer is and never has been number one in the eyes of the Keyboard Manufacturers. They reserve that roll for themselves much to the chagrin of the buying public and oftentimes their 'loyal' customers. I think they may have a love for Music (but not necessarily ) and they want their customers to be satisfied to a reasonable extent but the bottom line for them is increasing their revenue and prospering as an entity. In other words, the buying public is way down on the totem pole in my opinion in regards to what is important in their eyes. Were just a number, a figure $$$, an avenue or vehicle by which they become wealthy, and I'm sorry to say "little else".

Best regards,
Mike

[This message has been edited by Idatrod (edited 07-23-2003).]