Hi. I owned Roland VA-76 Arranger. For me is very good Arranger, played western latin music and both greek and arabic music but now i want something smaller beucase is very difficult to transport on my work. I hear both and 2 model and i like Korg PA800 sounds, and i like for first time piano sound. Overall has realy difference from korg PA80 and Pa1x. Hear acoustic sounds better from my korg Triton le76. Roland E-80 hear to me same with Roland VA76 and G70 only difference some drumset and very bigGGGGG and heavvvvy, and on my roland VA76 has all styles files from internal memory E80, and played ok.
I like roland styles and i have thousands styles roland. On korg PA800 found styles very poor but try only 5 - 6 styles. They exist good styles from korg? your opinion?
!!(I played and on Yamaha Tyros 2 but is very expensive for me and yamaha in not good support on greek and arabic styles). Thanks.

Just go on
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pa800

& search for the Korg pa800 all you see is Arabic & mid eastern players .......so I would assume its working for them?

E80 may be smaller, but it certainly isn't lighter... and is no cheaper than a T2, either.

I agree if you want arabic, greek and indian styles, the Korgs are the best supported in these areas.

Yes E80 on has smaller width and biggest height compare VA76 but is more heavy and quality on keyboard in no good as VA76. E80 no sampler??? Price is same with Tyros2 but my friendly store can be good price for me only on Roland and Korg Keyboards.
On my work play 50% western program (latin,chacha,ballads,disco) and 50% greek pop and arabic music. I need good styles!
I like western styles on Tyros 2 and some sweet sounds but i need sampler. Korg PA800 has sampler and can load my akai sample from greek organs (bouzouki), but on Pa800 hear poor and short intros little fills/variation compare with Roland and Yamaha on western styles? They exist good western styles with rich intros and fills on korg Pa800? I known for arabic styles is NO1 but I interest itself for good latin and pop styles with rich intros/fills variation. I have emc styleworks for all formats and can convert Roland styles to Korg but played ok on PA800? Not have any korg arranger only Roland VA76 and EXR-GR5
This is a longggg style from roland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn5thvvz-EU

I like PA800 but afraid styles
Roland E80 or Korg PA800 is better??

TABLA / Dholak / Dhol Indian Styles, Intros, Fills, Endings for KORG PA800

The first & most important thing is => All the DEMOs are available to listen to each part of each Style, please visit the web site www.melodytracks.com

and download Styles sequence for your PA800 to give my work a TRY

I am offering the full style sequences for the following Indian songs for the keyboard KORG PA800 (applicable to PA1xpro but better make it sure)
 
For the Songs;

= Sau Saal Pehlay (Muhammad Rafi)
= Wo Kaghaz Ki Kashti (Jagjeet Sing)
= Chupke Chupke Raat Din (Ghulam Ali)
= Jhoom Barabar Jhoom (Indian Movie)
= Preto (Abrar-Ul-Haq)
= Dekha Jo Chehra Tera (Arshad Mahmood)
= Baharo Phool Barsao (Rafi)
= Ae Mei Zohra Jabein (Munna Dey)
= Dil Keh Raha Hai Dil Se (Adnan Sami)
= Hamain Tum Se Pyar Kitna (Kishore)
= and many others in the future.......

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The styles I made are exactly according to the song including almost all required parts of the PA800 elements like;

Var 1,2,3,4

Fills 1,2,3,4

Intros 1,2,3,4

Endings

PADS 1,2,3,4

I have stored all the interval musical pieces into Intro 1,2,3,4 buttons of PA800 along with the appropriate style according to the song

I have stored all the bar musical pieces in to PADS 1,2,3,4

So, when you perform the song, you sing with Styles Var1,2,3 or 4 and when you need interval musical piece, just press one of the Intro Butons and the complete and same musical pieces as in the original song will be played automatically, same with Intro2,3,4 and PADS.

So, a full musical band is always which you when performing with my sequences.

Singing Details with my sequences:
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You know, my sequences are NOT like MIDIs or Karaoke where you have to sing at particular point and have to stop at particular point and if you are late you miss it. My sequences are Styles sequences, play the style you want, sing where ever from, sing as long as you want, give gaps if you want and when you need an interval piece, just press Intro, when the musical piece finishes, it will automatically brings you to the main style section where you were singing, do Fills, breaks, Endings etc..

Sing 1000's Songs with these styles
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Off course, you can sing 1000's of other Indian songs as well using the same style but just don't use Intro button only. You can use Var 1,2,3 or 4, Fills & Endings for any other song where it matches.

Tabla/ Dholak / Dhol Sounds (samples)
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In all these styles you will hear proper Tabla, Dholak, Dhol sounds according to the styles, you will feel like a live Tabla player is playing with you. But before you load these sequences onto your PA800, you MUST load my DESI/Bhangra Kit in to your PA800. This Kit is a part of this product.

How easy to load DESI/ Bhangra Kit in to PA800?
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It's very easy and quick, just like 1,2,3 YES I will provide you a file to load into PA800 and it will automatically make a full KIT for you, you don't need to assign each sample one by one, just load the main file, it will do everything for you, then load my styles and Enjoy all the Indian tabla, dholak, dhol samples are already in the kit

Help/ Instructios / Support
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All the instruction files are included into the package with very simple Step-by-Step instructions for everything. So, just read these few instruction lines in the PDF files before going ahead. It's very easy quick to understand the instructions. If you still need any help loading the package on to your PA800, I am personally available to help you out on email or on phone.

DEMOs
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Yes, you can have full demos of each and every Styles sequence. The demos include all the sections separately like Intros, Vars, Fills, endings, PADS etc... All the demos are in MP3 format, so you can listen to them just by clicking on it on my Web Site www.MelodyTracks.com , it's very easy www.MelodyTracks.com
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Download PA800 Format Files (.STY, .PAD)
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Please download a complete sequence of songs from the list above. Download it from my Web Site www.MelodyTracks.com and you can load it on to your PA800 and have a Full DEMO, by loading this sequence on to your PA800, you can check how I work, how professional I am and type of Style sequences you can get

I think it is amazing what you have done with the PA800.

It makes me proud to own one, but humble in my lack of knowledge.

Bernie