@robinez, style selection is quite identical to Genos, Voice selection the same, effects now looks more like Genos than old PA series, with a nice graphical interface, they made the same thing like in Genos, as you can now use style from any device, no more limitations for the number of styles or the "slots" of voices, you can load as many as keyboard's memory allow. That's why I said they copied a lot of things from Genos. How about the left screen? Don't you think it was copied from Genos? 😁
Yes, they have some things more advanced than Genos has... Drums are separated in families, Kicks, Snares, Toms, Claps, Hits and so on, you can add or remove FX Inserts for each one of these families, according to the limitations. In Genos, if you add an Insert Effect to drum channel (Hall for example), ALL the elements will share the same values and parameters of the selected effect, which is bad as long as the Kick must be "out of the schema". It is like in the real life you mount all the microphones of the drum set to a mixer and you put a Hall effect POST mixer. Never you do like this. Each microphone must have its knob to add or remove the effect to that microphone.
@Jeff, you asked me about the Pros and Contra... I like the advanced way of doing the job on Korg, I like they let me to set the drums family in realtime, not in Style Creator, like Genos does. I like the possibility of saving all my parameters in styles and voice while I'm playing. As long as I'm not gigging only by myself, and I have vocalists, sax player, accordion player, I do only the backing job (accompaniament most of the time), which allows me to tweak the sound as long as I play. Using the same style for multiple songs, in some environment needs some adjustments, and the need of saving while playing is a great job that Korg did. Now, with the new interface, which is in my opinion more like Genos, is very easy to me to find things, tweak and save.
Contra: for now the OS is very limited comparing with PA4X. A lot of bugs, but even so, does not hinder my musical performance, only the building of styles or voices. I wait for the new version of Korg PA Manager soft which for the oldest keyboards from Korg it does a great job!
Anyway, I love my Genos's soft keyboard more than Korg's semi-weighted keyboard. I'm not a pianist, so that's why, probably 😁 But, you know, each user with his pleasure and his comfort, finally.
Regards,
Vali