On korg you can practically load any sound you want (yes, external sounds) AND you have the ability to tweek and edit to your hearts content.

Only reason you need a sampler is if the internal sounds suck. Pretty happy with the ROM in my BK...

Tweaking... see above. The BK has most of the common synth tweaks, envelopes, filters, LFO controls. You need more than this, there's thousands of synth presets that go far beyond what the edits can do.

Look, I've got Kurzweil's, Korg synths, a ton of VSTi's... If I want to twiddle around programming sounds all day, no sweat. But when I go out on a gig, I'm there to PLAY. I want to sound like a live band, and I want to do it with the minimum of effort. I don't want an arranger so complicated it can do it all, because I've got plenty of other stuff that does it all. I want something that makes gigging EASY.

John, you could be right, but usually what the US has in $, we get the same but in euro.

Also, unofficially, the price for pa900 with the official Korg dealer in Romania is 1.850 euro. We shall see very soon the final prices I guess.

Once you tweek the sounds on korg, they are saved and "ready to play". You didn't really think you have to reprogram sounds on every gig did you?

That is very simplistic, no doubt. There are many other reasons - but mainly you can add a variety of sounds that no ROM set will be able to offer, ever.

When it comes about the things you can tweak (as many here are very vocal about making tweaks, to personalize, to change that "out-of-the-box" sound...) nothing really beats Korg.

You don't have to, but to know that you are able to change a million parameters is very nice!

No way you can compare the 500 series to the 800/900. I played the 800 for 4 years, 500 x a year. I bought the 500 for a backup and it was like a toy in comparison, thus the reason it doesn't sell well.

They did the price right (as I 've expected). After touch/VH/speakers /will play 3x styles , yet no too heavy.I hope keys are better than recent budget synths.

Rember the days when psr2000 was 1199$ and pa80 was $2000?


I agree that Krome 61 keys are a mess .(wasted opportunity ), Juno G is more playable .

Now Korg, do something to strengthen your style dept. I hear same /similar styles without life in it.I do love your editing power (second to none).

That's why Kurz has a sampler ?

Not.

What would you prefer? To not have to tweak the sounds in the first place, or to have them saved after you had to?

I'm still not over the Korg's lack of fills. Yes, now you have four... nice. The Roland's have had six for eight years. I wonder how many we'll have by the time Korg get around to six?

Looks like Roland could figure out how to do a Break/fill too?
I know, I'm beating an old dead horse.
I've gotten to the point where I don't much care what I play. They all sound good to me!
I would sell the PA3X if someone wants it, but then I'd have to decide what to get next. It would be something lighter and less expensive, and it wouldn't be the BK9 for a few reasons, so that would leave PSR S950 or PA900, or maybe the new Ketron Midjay Pro that is scheduled for later this year. I've already had S950 and could be happy with that again, and there would be no learning curve.
I wonder if the new PA900 still will have the same OS, where you have to load styles into user slots before you can audition them?
DonM