I'll disagree on most post you're making about Kurzweil, because it indeed is a different mentality, but I have no problem with that mentality, and not just that, myself, owning a PC3K8, have reached a completely different opinion through my time with the board.
Kevin Nolan wrote:Indeed, the PC3X keyboard action is about as bad as it gets - it's woeful. Absolutely junk.
Disagree there, right on the start. I really like the keybed on my PC3K8 (Fatar TP40L)- whereas I've heard TONS of people having issues with old Fatar keybed in K2500 series. That's fixed now, it's really smooth feeling.
Kevin Nolan wrote:And the quality of the OS on Kurzweil is nothing short of a disgrace - and I mean an utter disgrace - its a con job.
Another disagreement. OS is stable, no crashes for me at all, everything works just fine, nothing weird happening.
Kevin Nolan wrote:If, say a piano has 8 layers, then you have to edit the filter, separately, for each layer! Just how rediculous is that? And - it's not even obvious how to do that - it's utterly cryptic with value settings that mean nothing to me. It's the same for every single parameter of the synth engine. It's impenetrable.
You say ridiculous, I say more flexible.

And indeed, I hate Korg for not using the usual real-life units of parameters everywhere (dB, Hz for starters). This changed my life when I switched from my old Korg to PC3K8. I love knowing that my filter is exactly at, say, 2750 Hz, and that I have 18 dB of resonance on it. That's just how my mind works, and I'd be really glad if Korg too would use real-life values for parameters, or have it as a global option. They just work, and I'm not the only one.
Kevin Nolan wrote:...is why that synth engine has remained virtually completely unexploited by 3rd party sound designers to this day, despite the fact that the same OS has been around for virtually 20 years. Nobody can figure the bloody thing out!
It is also not true that there aren't any 3rd party sets developed. There's quite a number of them. The VAST system is not at all difficult to crack, it's just not as visual as it COULD be, and that poses a problem to majority. Not to me, though (and I'm not the only one). I am absolutely satisfied with that board! I'm really spending some quality time with it, as you say, and am reaching completely different conclusions than you.
Kevin Nolan wrote:This is why Kurzweil are in dire straits and do not even have the money for R&D. What was a great company during the K2000 days is now a complete shambles.
You obviously don't know the story about hostile takeover, forced bankrupcy and massive layoffs that Kurzweil suffered without any merit? :/
Kevin Nolan wrote:So please do not compare Kurzweil to Kronos.
I'm not comparing between them, but what I'm saying is that the two boards will go great hand in hand.
Because there's stuff that Kurzweil still does better than Korg. And vice versa. Now if you notice my other posts in this forum, I generally have a liking for what Kronos is, and that is also the reason why I'll get it sooner or later. But I also have lots of love for Kurzweil, too, and that's why I have it now.
