Originally Posted by rharv
Well, ya went fro $400 to $4000 so I HOPE you like it. <grin>

Yeah, I know listen to videos (compressed formats that had production involvement). Just wondering how it sounds when it's in front of you.

Oh yeah, I more than just like it and there's a mountain of features I've yet to explore and grow into. I can easily see this as my last keyboard.
It's got a bunch of factory styles and the ones I've sampled sound good to my ear. Also the individual voices; pianos, strings, brass, percussion also sound high quality. This unit also has built-in mixers so if you don't like things you can mix onboard. And of course you can record to your DAW and EQ at will.

Keep in mind I don't wear or need hearing aids and the Pa5X does not contain speakers, so I'm routing its audio to my interface and then to a single JBL studio monitor. It has plenty of output capability but I want to reserve my other monitor for other audio. There may be times where I'll route both channels to each monitor but I did that rarely on my old Korg.

Another feature I've yet to explore is the style fader. I've seen in the YouTubes that you can allocate 2 different styles to a performance. And use the slide fader below the screen to fade from one style to the other. I'm thinking that each style's tempo would need to be an integer multiple of the other (if not identical) for the tempos to seamlessly align. I'm not aware of any other keyboard that can do this but I haven't done an exhaustive search. The large, multi-color screen, chord progressions and large quatity of styles/voices is what I prioritized. You're simply not going to get all this for $500.

Right now I see absolutely no limitations for my needs; it's professional grade.

Since this is an international forum there may be some here (like me) that find Korg's global footprint impressive, although I'm not sure why the US is not shown.

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