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[Niki_Keyz]

This list is mine personally and these are the ones I found. They have been update with their wording making it a little easier to understand than what I wrote before.

Updated List of New Bugs Found on PA5X 🪳

▫️ For musicians that use lower such as strings, almost 100% of us do, you cannot turn of the pitch bender for the lower. It will bend with your sound on uppers. This function does not work.

▫️ Songbook entry will not start on intro if your intro is selected to begin with. It will play the selected variation for a measure THEN go to intro as you saved it. Also you cannot select the songbook entry to the other player. Meaning if you’re on player 1, you may not select your songbook entry for player 2 and have it ready.

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🔻 Estimated converting time from .SET to .KST: 2 hours (500Mb set)

🔻 Loading same set on keyboard: 20-25 min

🔻 Pads of screen should not act as a play button. When clicking on a pad on the screen, it should open the menu for you to select another pad like on every previous model.

🔻 Fill-in button after half of measure with your style on will play only your drums from the fill-in while the variation drums and accompaniments play altogether.

🔻 Home Screen needs mixer at all times. For live performers, we need levels of our drums, bass, accompaniments, lower and uppers on the screen the whole time. We don’t have the time to look and switch pages for this.

🔻 If your style is on and you turn on a pad, if the pad is more than two measures long, it will only start on the second measure. Regardless of when you click the pad.

🔻 When selecting a different pad, after clicking 4 buttons and pages to get there, it takes you to factory pads and not where the original pad is on your user. When you do select another pad, the volume automatically goes to 100 and the FX send automatically goes to 40.

🔻 Selecting a style is not fast enough. After you click on a new style while playing, it will blink a few times before it selects it. Most of the time, this is way over a measure and a half of the current style playing. This is not ideal for live performers.

🔻 There is no way for you to select the second style and have it in sync with the first one even with tempo lock on. It’s humanly impossible. Your tempo will match but you cannot physically hit the second style perfectly on beat with your first one.

🔻 If your pads are on while your style is playing, as soon as you select a new style, your pads turn off instantly. Way before the new style even comes on.

🔻 Intro 1 is not supposed to play your lowers when selected. Your lowers should work for intro 2 but not for intro 1. There’s a reason for that. Some peoples intro 1 plays a melody or plays different chords.

🔻 We should have a preference of not having the lists of styles, sounds and pads be in alphabetical order. People had these organized on the 4x into separate folders and pages.

🔻 If you are used to having a certain sound or drum kit you like on (user 1, page 3), you know it’s there 100% and you learn it that way. Not anymore, because everything is alphabetical order, things will move every time you add a new sound, pad, style, song, drumkit, etc. complete disaster if you know where your things are.

🔻 Acc. 3 freezes on the first chord you hit instead of chords you are playing. Same goes with some bass on styles. I’m playing a different chord progression, acc. 3 is stuck on the first chord without changing.

🔻 Some styles I made have drums or percussion that is detuned using my pitch bender. It will not play the correct detune until the second measure of the style.

🔻 If you are using quarter scale, this is not the keyboard for you. It will switch on and off at random. It’s almost like every few seconds it will play your quarter tone and then go back to equal scale. Non stop.

🔻 When making a new style, the menus for quantize, delete, velocity, cut and others are missing.

🔻 The bass should not be the first in order. Every keyboard since day 1 has it as follows….drums-percs-bass-acc1-acc2-acc3-acc4-acc5.

🔻 We need an option to customize your own keyboard. There are photos for every sound and drumkit next to it. You cannot select the photo you want when saving a new sound or style.

🔻 Website says we have 4GB and 8GB compressed but the keyboard shows we have 2.5GB. Not even close to what Korg is advertising on their website. If you think your going to have 4GB of space when buying this keyboard, you’re going to be extremely upset to find out you have only 2.5GB of space.

🔻 There should be an option on the main Home Screen from the drop menu to show only one style instead of two. Not everyone will be using two styles since they can’t even sync them perfectly anyways. It would be nice if you hold shift and play on the style for it to sync with tempo and for it to start perfectly with the current style playing.

🔻 When playing a pad that is a loop, a slice from the loops starts when you press the button. It doesn’t start where the loop should resume naturally.

🔻 If you start with a pad that is a loop (without the style being on) and then turn on the style after, the pad will be off from the style by milliseconds. Your ear will catch it and you know it’s not perfectly on.

🔻 When you hit your fill button, the variation will not go to the first measure, regardless if you have it set to start on the first measure.

🔻 If you have a pad that is an accompaniment or guitar, it turns off when you turn off the memory for your chords.

🔻 There is no Kaoss.

🔻 There is no option for midi to style converter.

🔻 Locked sets will not work nor convert.

🔻 If you have a folder with only styles, you will not be able to open it and view any of them. It must be a set folder for it to convert to the the KST format.

🔻 No support for EC-5.

🔻 For existing style, cv length cannot be changed.

🔻 There are factory styles that are still on here from the pa80. The house, dance, techno are not from this century. They are indeed what they say they are but not anywhere near the year 2022. So when you select dance, it is dance, just not this year. More like 1998 dance.

🔻 The screen, when all the way down, is not flush with the rest of the keyboard. It is slightly off and sits a little higher.

🔻 On the 4x, we were given a limit of approx. 15000 samples for 1.5GB of space. You are now given approx. 30000 for 2.5GB of space. Even though Korg advertises it as it giving you 4GB.

🔻 Korg needs to stop changing the format of extensions for styles, sets, sounds, etc. The person buying the pa5x is 99.9% coming from a 4x. And that person also came from a 3x and so on. It was already annoying enough that you couldn’t load 3x sets on the 4x without loading the folders separately. Now it’s just a jumble mess for people trying to switch over to a keyboard they thought they were familiar with.

🔻 Let’s be honest, wood sidings with a metal body do not go. Ever. With anything.

🔻 If you are from the balkans or middle eastern region and have a locked usb set, it will not work on here.

[kbrkr]

All I can say is just; "WOW"
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[BR]

Thanks Niki_Keyz for your report.

I myself am a gig player and happy with my Pa4X I would say WOW too and very disappointing with this new Pa5X problem.
I would keep my Pa4X and don't even think about replacing it.

I don't have the Pa5X but read the specification, for me adding the wood is a negative point because it added more pounds
to the weight of Pa5X 61 keys (33.3 lb) comparing to Pa4X 61 keys (30.6 lb).
This is not convenient when traveling with it by airplane, we pay more for extra weight.

When I read your report about the Pad sync problem with style, this is exactly what happens with the new Yamaha PSR-SX series.
It seems that Korg copied some feature from Yamaha. Anyway this is not a good feature to copy from Yamaha, I would say it's even a big problem.

I have one of these Yamaha PSR-SX and have already reported in their website but at the end no solution and I have to live with it.

With Pa4X the Pads work fine, Korg should've kept the same stable feature from Pa4X Pad function.

And I hope Korg company got their lesson to Not hire anymore the incompetent testers like we saw on the net before releasing the Pa5X.
I am wondering what these peoples (testers) tested with the new Pa5X and what they reported to the Korg company about the new Pa5X.

Korg should hire the knowledgeable, serious and competent keyboard players for testing their flagship in the future.
I am sure they can find very knowledgeable people here in our forum.
Just my two cents.

[karmathanever]

@ Niki_Keyz

Could you please split up your list to appropriately fit into the 2 stickies - would be super helpful

Thanks for all your feedback and effort.

Pete
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[Niki_Keyz]

Hi Pete. I most definitely will. I will be stepping out for a few hours today but once I get back I will separate them into the 2 stickies on the forum.