Hi Lee,
look I know what you're going thru. I knew I'd have an awful time trying to decide what to get, to the extent that I dropped out for nearly 6 months.
Didn't touch a keyboard in all that time. ( I take a break every few years to try & cure the addiction. Didn't work. haahaa).

If all I wanted to do was play, I probably would have gone for the T4.
The guy at the store gave me a brief demo, it sounded brilliant.
All set up, ready to play.

Then I read some of the Korg specs, the 2 main things on my wish list had been, XG Drumkits & 4 variations, almost like they'd been listening.

Eventually I'm hoping to incorporate my softsynths ie use my laptop as a soundmodule, so I really need the controller functions on the korg.
I'd bought a number of programs like Garriton, & some NI sounds etc, hoping to use them for more than just Band in a Box. Actually it was all going pretty well till I broke my laptop. I'm slowly getting stuff loaded back in.

You've really got to try & see both before you decide. The PA3X may not be different enough from the PA2X for you, if you weren't happy with the styles.
I use a lot of my own conversions, so editing is important for me, The xg drumkits have just cut out an awful lot of work in not having to remap drums manually, I don't use EMC for converting any of my PSR styles.

Rikki ... A little late to reply. Congrads on the Pa3x ... I love mine I am sure you will be very satisfied with yours!!! The converstion of styles from the Pa2x is very simple. Check out the EKO Italy site there is new styles/pads already there for download. Have fun!!!!

Hi Mdorantes,
thank you.

I haven't even been thru all the styles yet.

There were some latin styles I'm sure weren't on my PA800?

Do you actually have a list, and I can check for you?
or would they all be in the Latin section, in which case I could just do a comparison of what's new.

Thanks JC,
luv it already. haahaa

Ok I'll check out the site. Thank you.

Hello again:

The PA 800/500/2X in their Latin section, did not have ours, we made ours when this models where already in production.
Korg Later release them for their users for free.

Here is the link of the Latino styles (Spain) that we made for Korg, if you want to download them, they are free for the Korg users. Just download it, then load them into your PA3X, beware not to erase your data, I always make a backup just in case, is a lot easier, that way you can restore your PA like when just opened, chances are you know this already, just in case, better be safe than sorry. ;o)


Here is the list:

1 MARIACHI CUMBIA ritmo de música con Mariachi
2 BANDA CUMBIA con el ritmo de Cumbia, muy popular
3 BANDA DEL RIO Fusión reciente de Banda y de la Sierra
4 CUMBIA DEL NORTE Cumbia al estilo Norteño
5 NTE CUMBIA LENTA a Ramon Ayala se le atribuye este estilo de Cumbia lento
6 CUMBIA ANGELICAL Cumbia Colombiana al estilo de los Angeles Azules, etc
7 SABROSURA Cumbia tradicional con mucho "Sabor"
8 CHARANGA Cumbia rápida muy tradicional
9 CUMBIA TECNO La versión moderna de la Cumbia
10 SONORA TROPICAL Sonora tradicional de influencia Cubana
11 KEBRADITA Tipica de música de Banda, baile rápido
12 MARIACHI POLKA música de Mariachi.
13 DE LA SIERRA Reciente estilo usando guitarras básicamente
14 PASO DURANGUENZE Estilo reciente de Durango, con baile especial
15 POLCA DEL NORTE música de "redoba" del Norte
16 MARIACHI LENTO Típico de Mariachi, Jose Alfredo Jiménez
17 MARIACHI VALZ Muy popular el Valz con Mariachi
18 DE LA SIERRA 3/4 La versión Valz de este estilo del Norte
19 3/4 BANDA Valz con la Banda
20 VALZ PERUANO Respuesta al Valz Vienes, solo más romántico
21 BOLERO RANCHERO Uno de los generos más románticos y populares
22 BANDA BALADA Lo más romántico de las Bandas de viento
23 TRIO BOLERO Las Románticas serenatas con trio.
24 NUEVA BACHATA Nueva instrumentación de la Bachata
25 RICO - CHA CHA Cha cha al estilo Cubano
26 MERENGUE POP Versión contemporánea de Merengue
27 MAMBO PRADO Mambo a la Pérez Prado
28 VALLENATO POP Popular baile Sur-Americano
29 BANDA SHUFFLE Banda con un Poco de Swing
30 BANDA ZAPATEADO Típico de Banda (Sinaloa)
31 MERENGUETENGUE A 6/8 como el Chilito Pikin
32 MARIACHI SON La más identificable música de Mariachi


The name of the style and some clue of the music that you can perhaps type on You tube, for those that may not be familiar with those music styles.
Thank you again,

Hi mdorantes,

sorry, what I'd been trying to say was, I'd check my PA800 & then do a comparison of PA3X styles to see what was different.
I was aware you generously gave us PA800/PA2X styles for free.
The list will be so much more helpful for me to check & see for you, which of the styles Korg has included on the PA3X ( provided they kept the same title haahaa)



[quote=mdorantes]
Hello again:

The PA 800/500/2X in their Latin section, did not have ours, we made ours when this models where already in production.
Korg Later release them for their users for free.

Rikki,
Great decision for you...the Korg works VERY WELL with the external sound module (or VSTi) thing...where the Yamaha does not. And with your love of style work...it will work out super for you.

Not sure what I'll do yet...

Hi mdorantes,
in regards to your list, I found the following 4 style names in the PA3X. I haven't had a chance to download yours yet, the names are identical, though.

They're actually in the World Category of styles.

Here is the list:

1 MARIACHI CUMBIA ritmo de música con Mariachi

12 MARIACHI POLKA música de Mariachi.

17 MARIACHI VALZ Muy popular el Valz con Mariachi

21 BOLERO RANCHERO Uno de los generos más románticos y populares

Thank you very much for that info, too bad that all the Phoenix Metro music stores do NOT carry the PA3X, only a couple had a PA 500 and another a "gently used" PA 800.....

Hi mdorantes,

I just happen to be lucky enough to have a large Korg dealer only an hour away.
I'd still be waiting another month or two if I'd wanted to buy one from my normal supplier. Stocks from what I gather are still be scarce.

A couple of things that may interest you, the XG drumsets on the korg sound pretty similar to my xg psr 1500 kits. May mean a lot less tweaking for you if you're recording same styles for both keyboards. Also you've got the 4 variations on the korg now.
They've also improved Guitar Mode. Before all you had in a guitar mode track were all the strums, fret noises & the 6 individual strings, now you can also record regular midi notes on the same track ie the lower section of the keyboard used to have the individual notes that triggered the strums, the upper end of keyboard triggered the noises, middle there was basically nothing . Now there's 2 or 3 octaves of normal guitar sounds. I used to have record my strums on 1 accomp track, then if I wanted midi notes for that track , I had to waste accomp 2, now both can be recorded on the same track in short a Guitar mode track can also be used a a guitar midi track.
They've also added a function that shapes the chord,. When I figure out what the hell that means I'll let you know. I'm not a guitarist. haahaa I think it gives more control of the strums and how many notes the strum plays, & which note the strum starts from or something. Until I actually fiddle around with it a bit, I can't be sure. The manual without hands on testing, doesn't really explain it all that well. .