Like probably almost all of you, nice people involved in this forum, I’m also a little disappointed, because soon or later we’ll have to leave our beloved Pa1X-series and purchase the new flagship Pa2X “most advanced technology available today” according to Korg.
The truth is that all those new upgrades Pa2X comes loaded with today (tilting display, direct access buttons, smarter graphical user interface, custom track EQ, Guitar Mode, etc) are just a few items to mention from those option lists which forum members did put together many times under all of these years in hope to help Korg find the right track to succeed.
All of these option lists were meant to be used to upgrade the Pa1X-series, but Korg just took the advantage of using all this information and implemented it in the new Pa2X-series…
As I mentioned earlier, it is ok since, sooner or later, we’ll be forced to change to the Pa2X-series.
Regarding myself, I decided to stay for while from now with my old Pa1X Pro and trying to make it better by my own. As you surely remember, almost any member in this forum asked questions like “how to increase the RAM memory”, “why do you have to wait so long to load 32Mb of samples” and “what if in live situation you get your power supply going down”, etc.
Korg always had the correct answer but they chose to give us this, 128MB installed RAM with expansion possibilities up to 256 MB (Pa2X).
That’s OK from my point of view, but what about the required time to load those 256MB, or what about power supply failure when there is a crowd dancing in front of you??
In such circumstances there is an appropriate technology for the improvement of the Pa1X-series. You could get away with the expenses by taking the advantage of using the SSD Flash Drives. The IDE25-series, 8 to 64 GB, will perfectly fit in your Pa1X keyboard. This will give you the opportunity of withholding a vast memory for all sorts of applications. In the circumstances of power failure, you will never need to reload your samples and the access of these samples will be a matter of milliseconds.
The only change that Korg would ever need to do is to take the advantage of this technology and readdress the factory styles/sounds to the IDE 2,5” SSD Flash Drive in the “next” release 4.0. That will result in plenty of Pa1X-series satisfied users and a lot of new costumers, too.
You, forum members who are interested in this technology, please check out these links and come back with your comments and suggestions about how to improve our Pa1X.
http://www.supertalent.com/products/products.php
http://www.supertalent.com/products/ssd.php
http://www.supertalent.com/products/fla ... 08f721b788
Regards, Tascone.
