Although you gave up on her, she misses you too :

But now we are in love and I treat her with great care, paying attention to her every detail.

I had her twin with me a while, but decided to go after her high maintenance mother (2X) now.

Hopefully, I'll see you around some family reunions

Donny, OS 2.0 is supposed to add 42 Platinum styles (whatever that means). Actually, I like the Korg styles very much now, and have been varying them by adding different combinations of pads.

I know you will make wonderful music whatever you own!

Blessings

Graham

I'm willing to bet those "Platinum" Styles will rely heavily on the new voices in this OS release. Makes sense for them to release the new sounds (similar to SA voices).., then to create additional styles to showcase those new voices.

Donny, I identify, I always want what I once had it's not a bad thing for some of us that's just the way it is. Problem is all these boards give you enough to love and hate at the same time. Reminds of that blonde I dated in high school, but her brunette friend had.............ah never mind you get the drift.

Graham not sure you read in another post, but I spoke to the Korg Pro Arranger Product Manager at the recent arranger fiesta. "Platinum" is just marketing hype. They had to call them something. I guess they could have just as easily named them "Gold " styles.

Hi Donny,
if you end up with another PA800, let me know.
I've got my user style collection sorted out for the XRM database ( just in case you didn't keep any of your stuff) http://www.palibrarian.net/
Makes sorting user styles a breeze.

best wishes
rikki

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I really like some of the PA-800 styles--I play them on my PSR-3000 and after a small amount of tuning they sound pretty good. I'll bet they would sound just as good on your Tyros.

Gary

I think the critical word is BORED...

Donny's BORED of the Yamaha, wants a PA800 back, so he can get BORED with it again Then get a T3, get BORED with that, get a G70, get BORED with that, go back to an SD-1, get BORED with that, and so on and so forth...

I'm sorry, but for all your talk about it being the 'player not the gear', you seem to want to find your primary inspiration in what you play ON, rather than what you play on IT. In the meantime, after three years plus of playing the G70, I find absolutely no need to even LOOK at another arranger.

But possibly because what I PLAY is of FAR more importance than what IT does. Minimize what the arranger does (bass and drums, primarily) can open you up to a myriad of imported styles, whereas relying on them for ALL the parts makes translation much trickier. To avoid repetition in what you have to listen to (probably the source of the boredom) play it all yourself...

If I'm bored, sadly, I only have myself to blame!

The new Korg OS is neat, but in fairness, it is still catchup time to the T2/3 when it comes to SA2 type sounds. Maybe after they add in a bunch more of these sounds, styles that exploit them fully it'll be worth revisiting, but personally, I think you are just searching for variety... Or possibly looking for something easier to trade for a T3 than a T1

Given the PA800's limited style selection, can't you see you are going to get bored even quicker than you were last time? With the T3 out and available, and you so used to the T1, surely that should be your antidote to the boredom blues? You are only going to lose money on the PA800 when you get bored of it and change to the T3

Better the devil you DON'T know than the devil you do...

I think you've got a point.

I think this is the point. Better to have a fabulous and limited (but not in my opinion) style selection vs boring.

I guess this depends on the RANGE of material you are performing, Zuki. If you only have a couple of polka styles (just for example), even if they are great, if you do a couple of DOZEN polka tunes, they are going to get repetitive...

Conversely if you do a few zydeco tunes, a few cajun country, a few ska, a few schottische, and you can't find ANY styles for them (just as example, again, I know perhaps some of those style might be covered), you are just as boned!

Everyone here has pretty different areas of style needs... Yours are apparently covered. But it is erroneous to think that just because YOU are happy, everyone else will be... Donny already found the PA800's styles limiting. Do you think that his repertoire has gone DOWN that much since?

We can already see that his limitless capacity to become bored quicker than anyone else certainly hasn't diminished in ANY way!

Certainly, cheer him on as he revisits your favorite arranger... but be prepared to be dismayed quickly as he drops it for something else in a few months' time...