Ha..., I just finished checking out the release before you posted this. Korg announced with the release of the 61 and 88 key versions that a 73 was on its way too.

I love the black sparkle metal flake body paint....we played the M50 in the stores a few weeks ago....nice & light also.

Korg's gonna sell a lot of M50's for sure.... Yamaha could put up a good challenge to the M50 line if they just updated the MO series a bit.

I spent a lot of time on the MO yesterday in the store. Hip Hop Trace beat box sound after sound.....The M50 is more of an everymans tool. The MO has some nice arps though but it is definitely aimed for the contemporary market.

Then again I used the Triton for years and years and found the M50 to be a plastic version of the Triton with upgraded sounds,

My vote goes to the (some say "lite") I say flimsy M50. Our first one came on DOA. Came on but no buttons worked.

Yes..., the MO's are def full of patches geared towards electronica. Same is said for its big brother (Motif ES).

However.., Yamaha (IMO the biggest cheapskate on this subject) completey screws buyers on the poly with some of their keyboard line. The MO's use the same sound engine as the Motif ES that was designed to run on 128 notes.., then they literally cut that in half. First big mistake on this line. Once you get into song creation you'll then see how fast 64 notes can choke on those workstations.

Korg's TR line was only 62 notes but handled it better (also considering the TR's were 2 element voice structure). Roland (even on their lower line) for some time have been using 64 notes minimal. Now all these new models (even the budget lines from Roland are using 128 note poly)

The new M50 ups that poly to 80 notes now. Hell even Casio is spitting out 48 note poly keys.

Roland's budget workstation line since the release of the Fantom Xa have been 128 voice. Yamaha is off their rocker IMO on some issues regarding what they cut on the lower line to reduce competition between their models. Sampling, expansion, ect I can understand, but taking out the 5.0 V-8 engine and replacing that with a 4 cly to drive the same vehicle is wrong.

Squeak,
To quote 'Yamaha is off their rocker IMO on some issues regarding what they cut on the lower line to reduce competition between their models.'
Exactly!
And that is the same exact reason we do not have a 76 note T3 and that the T3 MIDI implementation and some other things is sub par.

The PRO division does not want the competition and upper management in Japan won't say bull crap...each of you make the product the best technology can provide, and to meet all your customers needs.

Sad.

Lee