Brian007 wrote: .. I personally don't find it a miss but I am sure it will be incorporated into future updates as there a a few people passing comments about it
Hello Brian,
I can well imagine, because there much time is needed to explore numerous features of Pa900 - the more for advanced applications.
If you are familiar with advanced applications of Korgs Pa-keyboards already present since ten years, immediately you notice missing applications even you have a short look to technical describtions.
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From a successor (Pa900) I expect that it come up with the advantages of the previous model (Pa500).
Increasing number of styles, sounds and memory capacity, aftertouch and maybe another design maybe ok, but not that restrictions of essential style-control-features.
There ist an amount of missing functions - i could do with Pa500, but not with Pa900, like:
comfortable individual select Fill-ins
comfortable individual select Fill-in-Loops
Autostart with fill-in or Fill-In-Loop
Ten possible variations per style (if using only the endings for Intro and Ending)
Programmable Fill-Mode (per style / performance) for comfortable individual style-routings
Triggering of fill-ins by Velocity-Control
Chord-trigger with 3-notes and additionally one- / two-notes playing in the Lower Manual without retriggering
Pa900 is announced as successor of Pa800, Pa800 was announced as successor of Pa500 - but if Pa900 would be succussor of Pa500 that only would be possible when it will be equipped as at least as Pa500 or retrofitted with Fill-mode, Velocity-Control antd Fingered-3.
As double the price at the end of the day with Pa900 I would not only get what to payed for, but much more less.
On my opinion we do not call about faults, but a step backward in development. Korg at least SHOULD TRY TO HOLD THE LEVEL OF FUNCTIONS THAT ALREADY ARE PRESENT (since more then 10 years).
As step forward a couple suggestions i found in other forums to consider is to introduce two related functions for the assignable pedal IN ADDITION TO all the functions that was already present like in Pa500 (but not in Pa300/600/900):
(1) Momentary Chord Latch: Holding down the footswitch "loacks in" the current chord. The accompaniment continues to play in the current chord while the pedal is held down. Any number of notes played to the left of the split sound the lower voice and are not sent to the style engine. When the pedal is released, chord recognition resumes in the previously selected mode.
(2) Momentary Bass Inversion: The state of the bass inversion function changes while the assigned pedal is held down, and reverts to previous when the pedal is released. For example: Begin with bass inversion "off." Press and hold the pedal to play the odd slash chord, then release to use all inversions for the remainder of the score. (Presently it requires two press-and-release cycles to accomplish this.)
PS: hope my English is good enough not to use faulty vocabulary or do not offend anyone personally