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Hello all,

I'm new to the world of PA4x. I noticed from youtube videos and reading on the interwebs that a lot of content (performances/demos/content) is from people around the globe as opposed to performances/demos/content in English or related to western style of music.

This is very interesting, since it shows that the PA seems to be a a much more global instrument.

On the other hand, the PA4x doesn't seem to be that popular or should I say "adopted" in the US. I could not get my hands on the instrument in any music shop before buying. A lot of music shops online/offline couldn't speak in detail about the instrument.

This makes me wonder what kind of go to market strategy Korg arranger folks had as compared to Yamaha.

The PSR and Tyros arrangers are available to play with in almost all musical instrument shops in major US cities. I'd imagine PA4x would be kicking ass in the US market given the specs / Korg demos and pricing!

cool..the voting has begun.

harshalnaidu wrote:cool..the voting has begun.

England the United Kingdom plenty of 4X over here to be had

Interesting. Most users in this unscientific survey are from Europe.

England here as well, there's a lot of musicians gigging the Pa4x mysely included.

Thanks for voting folks. I'm not surprised that the vote shows that Europe leads.

I wonder why this keyboard is not as widely adopted in the US.

Maybe the US is too busy recovering from its presidential voting

It is true that arrangers are more popular in Europe than the US, and, accordingly, the number of music stores willing to stock top of the line keyboards is much smaller. However, I have seen a remarkable interest in the Pa4X among the pros here, but bought on line.

Bernie

duby2
USA
and it look like , the pa3x operating system was linux
and now pa4x its android os just like the phone.

Where did you get that information? Why would Korg go to Google's version of Linux code? My personal feelings: I wouldn't trust doing any business dealings with Google. But that would explain why all the funny bugs.

and it look like , the pa3x operating system was linux
and now pa4x its android os just like the phone.

When it moves to WINDOWS, I move to Casio

duby2 wrote:duby2
USA
and it look like , the pa3x operating system was linux
and now pa4x its android os just like the phone.

Who told you that ???

I am from Ohio, USA and have been using the Korg PA series since the PA1. I now have the 4. I've sold my PA1 and PA2 plus a 600 to people here in Ohio and Indiana. I've also colluded with other users here in the USA. There are zero stores that have a Korg on hand in Ohio. So I purchase online. Thanks.

England here, couldn't vote as that's not an option.

50% of KORG PA users are from Balkan countries
(Turkey, Greece, Albania, Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania)

and 50% other countries around the world...