What keyboard should I buy for Turkish music korg pa 300 or the SX 600

[erim kaska]

Very warm welcome guys so in a previous post I post this on the tyros4 where I found a second hand tyros keyboard in Turkey which was a black edition tyros for Black edition and of course it was sold just recently got sold so my question is I sold my akx 10 which is a great keyboard but do to yamaha's lawsuit to the company that makes the AKx 10 I was not very happy found out about this when I had my heart surgery in 2023 let's say October 24th 2023 a few days after my surgery which was on the 20th of October 2023 anyway long story short sold it? What is a good keyboard for Turkish music should I go for the Yamaha SX 600 should I go for the PA 300 or should I wait for the brand new SX 620 so what would you guys prefer I use which is better in terms of build quality and so on including expansion memory and sound quality and expansion availability and can someone please explain me this lawsuit regarding the keyboard that I sold which is the akx10 Guets are not allowed to view links. In order to access the links, please Register or Login

[BogdanH]

hi erim,
First, let me say that Yamaha's lawsuit against Medeli, has nothing to do with you as a owner of Medeli product. That is, if you were otherwise happy with AKX-10, then there was no reason to sell it. I say that, because generally speaking, AKX-10 is better keyboard than PSR-SX600. Actually, AKX-10 is more similar to PSR-SX700.

I don't know Korg Pa300 at all and so I can not say if Pa300 or SX600 would be better for you. I know that some specific styles and voices are popular in Turkish music. For Yamaha, the only way to get those voices (instruments) is via expansion packs. The problem might be the fact that SX600 has only about 100MB expansion memory (which is quite small). Maybe you should consider second hand SX700 (if you can get it for a good price), which has about 480MB expansion memory. Or even better, SX720 if budget allows.

Bogdan

[AmirInTexas]

Why not considering the PSR-A5000?

[Amwilburn]

PSRA5000 would be a great choice, yup. But based on the price point he's asking for, it's probably 75% higher budget than he wanted.

But I agree with your recommendation; if the OP can swing it, it would be much, much closer to what he wants.

I would then suggest a used PSRsx700 or a new PSRsx720; only 35% or so higher budget, but with the Middle Eastern & Turkish packs available, would both be infinitely better than the PA or the PSRsx600 (The sx600 can at least fit one of the Turkish packs or the PSR ME pack, but not the Balkan & Turkey pack, nor the T5 ME pack.)

But the A5000 would still be his best bet, yes. The PA300 was unusual; one of the few Korg PA's I don't recall having any expansion area at all, although I remember being able to at least create styles (so you should be download them as well). Also bear in mind the PA300 is over a decade old at this point... I haven't even had one in my store for about 7 years.

Mark