Stay away from PA-500, demos are just demos, output levels are disappointing, after many complains against poor build PA-500, I just give up, features are great for what you paid for, lacking USB connector and a decent output(-18db)comparing to other korg keyboards. styles are far better than yammies, however those are pretty much limited in comparison with yamaha styles.

Hi,

Could you please explain what you mean with that the styles of the korg are limited in comparison with yamaha.

Frans

I think they are referring to Yamaha's third party style availability & factory styles compared to KORG in general....this has been Korg's downfall for a long time.

Hi FransN,

I know it sounds simple, but have you tried googling Korg Styles? I just did that, and it brings up loads of stuff. Have you looked at Korgforums.com?

Yes I am also a member of http://www.createsongstyles.com/forum/ they also have a lot of styles for diverse keyboards. So I think there will be enough free styles available for the korg pa series.

hi Frans,
personally, I haven't found any shortage of styles.
I've collected 200 to 300 of them in different genre's. I think they're basically from prior korg keyboards, so they work reasonably well without much tweaking required.

There's also stuff on the Korg site http://www.korgpa.com/pa_root/en/extra/bonusware.html?en

Apparently there's also styles on this German site, unfortunately I can only read 1 of about every 10 words, so bit hard to make sense of haahaa.

There is also the option of modifying existing styles, by simple mixing of style tracks to come up with a new version of an existing style, or you can export a complete style as a midifile into a pc sequencer, edit, & save.

I convert ( from other keyboards) & create (not from scratch) some of my own styles.

best wishes
Rikki