1. We need more than 4 fills. No drummer plays only 4 fills in a song. Even if a lot of songs (and I know them) have only 2 or 3 different sections (verse, chorus, middle eight) the arranger keyboard market should be aware of REPEATS. Verses and choruses are repeated, and if you have only 4 fills you will run out of steam pretty quickly.
More complex songs may have solos, interludes, pre-choruses, or post-choruses. That's a LOT. We need 40 fills, not 4.
The modern arranger keyboard is more geared towards the classic AABA song structure (used mainly in jazz, the Beatles used this structure a lot, as well as other musicians, e.g. Sting). It is also geared towards the classical 'miniature' forms: binary and ternary form. But, not all songs are in binary, ternary, or AABA form. So 4 fills make for a limited life.
2. Same goes for variations. True, you don't need as many as fills are needed, but why 4? Why not 8 , or 12 ?
3. Korg makes the best sequencer on any arranger keyboard. I have closely examined all of them. But there's room for improvement. For example:
-In Backing Sequence mode, I'd like to see a punch in-out feature for the CHORD TRACK. This would allow me to record, say, half piece, and then record the rest at a later time, making it a multi-step process. As it is, once you are out of Backing Sequence, you can only continue to work on the song in Step Backing Sequence or in Multitrack Sequencer modes.
-In Step Backing Sequence, in the 'measure' field, I cannot type the bar where I want to go to. Instead, I have to scroll with the 'measure' arrows at the bottom. A tedious process.
-Still in Step Backing Sequence, I cannot hear my changes. I have to exit into the main Sequencer mode to hear the changes. Then to continue working on my composition, I have to re-enter Step Backing Sequence. A tedious process. Being able to hear the changes without exiting Step Backing Sequence would make life a lot easier.
Still, I prefer things as they are to a computer. I hate computers. Been using them for over a decade for music, bought lots of expensive software, but computers aren't real musical instruments. The Korg PA arranger is a real musical instrument.
I will continue to add to this wishlist as ideas come by. I hope Korg will consider these suggestions, because they make the arrangers with the best sequencer, even though it's not perfect. Every other arranger brand, Yamaha for example, makes basically a toy with a luxury soundset. It has great sounds, but for studio use, the sequencer is a joke, you can't even edit the chords after recording in realtime, which you can do with Korg.
The Korg PA is a true arranger workstation, but I'd like to see it improve
