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[Korghelper]

I can’t think of a better way to drum up sales of the remaining in stock PA4X’s than to announce its discontinuation without ANY mention of its replacement!

And the reverse is also true… Announce its replacement is in the pipeline, dangle some information about next gen capabilities or things like that, you pretty much ensure that the remaining stock of the current model will either have to be steeply discounted or languish on the shelves.

Korg ain’t no dummies LOL

[mabcomp]

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Dont worry we will all be discontinued soon
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Dont worry we will all be discontinued soon
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Pro Singer/Musician for over 30 Years

[Bachus]

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[karmathanever]

Slipping back to the OP:-

[Biggles]

Its not just the Pa 4X.

Take a look on websites for the Kronos.

They are hard to find and some retailers still have a page for them but they are not saying they are available to order, they are pointing at other makes and models.

Korg is in limbo.

With the downturn in gigs and live music where is the market for Korg’s expensive keyboards?

Which market segments are the ones where sales will continue?

Are Korg way behind Yamaha in terms of new arrangers, yes they sure are?

Hopefull the New Year will see some Korg activity.
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Biggles
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[usaraiya]

I hope for some encouragement or reassurance from Korg in an announcement before every ounce of morale is lost! Doom & Gloom ahead?
Unlikely, but they have an obligation to their loyal customer base to keep us informed, one way or another, not keep us in Limbo!

Uday

[karmathanever]

[Biggles]

[Korghelper]

I always rate arrangers based on two totally separate categories.

First are the raw ROM sounds. Not only do they integrate with each other well (the biggest, fattest everything added together equals a muddy stodgy mix - for sounds to be combined, care is needed that they bed together well). But do they work by themselves in a band situation? I definitely love using arrangers with bands, they are joys to work with live, sound navigation and ease of setting up splits and layers are generally orders of magnitude simpler than TOTL workstations. It’s easy enough to to get a sound to work well when up against compressed dynamics arranger drums and rhythm sections, but how well do they stand up to a real drummer and a live rhythm section?

I see little point in having to learn two different keyboards to do essentially one task… playing with a rhythm section!

Then I start to look at the raw power of the sound engine. Polyphony, independent effects, master effects, number of possible control inputs, from buttons knobs and sliders to control pedal and footswitch inputs, responsiveness of a touch screen (if it has one), stuff like that. How easy is it to play? Do I need to plan my effects use carefully because there aren’t enough? Can I put changing setups on footswitches, or turn on/off the Leslie, or performance things like alternate fingering sounds for saxes, or harmonics for guitars, because I only got two hands and they are already busy playing!

They aren’t your normal priorities of many arranger players, but at the end of the day, I’d rather have one keyboard that does both jobs well than have to learn two totally different keyboards.

An awful lot of where you are coming from as a player decides your priorities when deciding what’s ’best’. And, I don’t doubt, you go to a Genos forum and you’ll hear the EXACT same arguments used there to justify their choice as you do here!

So, in the end, it’s possibly the hardware that is the only objective way to differentiate between models. I’m pretty sure you put ANY modern TOTL arranger in my hands, I can make great music with it. But how easy it is can vary greatly. I have to confess, not having to think for one second about any associated effects a sound needs when I want to use it, not having to decide if I need to pull an effect off another sound so I’ve got it to use on another, that’s quite a freeing experience. Being able to run something through one effect, and then into yet another (and another!) without worrying about whatever other sounds I’m using is a quantum leap forward.

We can only dream..!