Love your Pa4X

[Korghelper]

Again it’s down to legacy architecture, but run almost ANY keyboard’s dedicated B3 sim through a real Leslie or something like a real tube preamp and a Ventilator Leslie sim, and you can get damn close!

The architecture problem is that the Korg’s B3 can’t be separated to an individual out, and run through an external Leslie. So there goes that solution…

Quick question… Can the Kronos’s CX3 sim be routed to a separate output? If so, there’s yet another good reason that Korg need to shift to the Kronos/Nautilus hardware!

I think another way many cripple themselves trying to get the ‘real B3’ sound is they keep trying to use short throw expression pedals. If you want to ‘shade’ the sound like the real thing, the real thing has a VERY long throw swell pedal, and that’s close to essential given how non-linear the sound of a real Hammond is. A lot of people’s negative impression of many Hammond sims is trying to play them either with no swell pedal, or one that’s too short a throw to be able to tame the sound accurately.

Play the real thing, you are CONSTANTLY adjusting depending on notes played and registration and area of the keyboard you are in. For me at least, that’s a very difficult task with the average expression pedal on an arranger.

In the meantime, I think the best Hammond purist solution for a PA4X user is something like the Mojo Desktop on a stand to your left (so you can shade the drawbars without reaching over the arranger too far, and easily hit the percussion and Cho/Vib buttons while you play). Once again, maybe not hardware, but software shortcomings of the Korg don’t allow use of the sliders to send the codes the Mojo wants to see, so you really want a unit with drawbars…

[Rebwar]

I agree with this post 100%, and I'm really happy with my Korg Pa4x, but still I wonder if Korg release a new version of software with increase samples MS which is limited 15000 now like Korg pa1000 MG wich have 28000, then it will be the best kyboard ever...

[karmathanever]

Once again, maybe not hardware, but software shortcomings of the Korg don’t allow use of the sliders to send the codes the Mojo wants to see, so you really want a unit with drawbars…

Ok, I'll drop into wish-list mode for a second...
Would love it more if the PA4X had sliders with linked LED strips like the Roland Jupiter-80 & current Fantom plus their "slider catch" setting.... this means that the LED strip always represents the actual setting and when you adjust the slider it will not make a change until it matches (catches) the highest LED - this means that you never get embarrassing "jumps" when manipulating sliders during a performance.

I can't believe that this feature is not on current keyboards!!!

(Still loving' it )

[pa4x_user]

+1

Plus sliders send midi code

[Korghelper]

Yep, getting into wishlist mode, but one of the easiest coding jobs Korg could do is a simple table of MIDI codes that every single button and slider on the front panel could send when moved.

Allow user definition of the code, and that’s it… your arranger becomes the hub of your entire studio or stage rig, Slider drawbar control of external B3 sims, Division control of a connected second arranger, transport control of a connected DAW, sky’s the limit..!

It’s a simple lookup table, it’s nothing like the complexity of the NEXT stuff, but it’s arguably the most impactful thing that could be easily, simply added to the OS. It’s long past time that arranger manufacturers got their fingers out and acknowledge that many players want to connect other gear to their arranger, but their stubborn refusal to allow flexible control schemes has crippled using an arranger as a control hub.