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[Fransman]

I've had a closer look at PA900 (pictures).
It sure looks very good and professional, but I'm not very pleased with all of the new panel layout:
- assignable switches not near the joystick
- pad switches, upper/lower octave and transpose located on second row and in color black (!)
- a lot of black and grey switches, which I find difficult to distinguish from each other
- the led lights are located above the knobs, where in PA800 they were located in the knobs
- the 2 assignable sliders have been replaced by 1 assignable knob

I haven't actually seen/played the instrument in real, but from the pictures I don't think the layout is better than PA800.
In fact for live playing, PA800's panel layout seems a bit better to me.
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Musical grtz, Frans

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[propellerhead91]

I see your points & can appreciate your disappointment,because I prefer the layout of the PaX models myself...but then,that's what happens in terms of features among different price ranges.

Being that the Pa900 is $1,000 cheaper than the Pa800,I really don't have any valid complaints.

It seems to me,that Korg did the best job they could,in allocating their production budget accordingly....in terms of the price/feature ratio.

[Fransman]

[propellerhead91]