DOES KORG NEED NEW SOUND ENGINEERS ?

[♔Chello]

DOES KORG NEED NEW SOUND ENGINEERS ?

I'm not a trained audio engineer, but I don't need to be either, because I have many decades of experience working with sound within HiFi, and have both very good equipment and very good ears.

I am shocked at how bad a job Korg has done with the Pa5X.
Several styles have strong audible distortion; in fact, so much so that clipping of the signal occurs.
This applies especially where several electric guitars and effects for these have been used, and here Korg shows great incompetence, as they maximize the levels for drums and perc to the max; 127.
Throughout, too many effects are used, and they are used too powerfully, so that when you try to add, for example, reverb to drums and perc, the soundscape collapses completely, especially at moderate settings of reverb.

The following work appears more and more as imperative:
All styles' average levels must be reduced to 70 to 80, and all Insert FX effects must be disabled.

Most effects are used to achieve a similarity to a song-based style, and this should be undesirable by a professional performer, as this makes styles less universal.
This is a development in a negative direction that I intend to oppose.

Everything has to be rebuilt from scratch, and effects are only assigned where they are necessary - bass, drums and perc and as little as possible more than this.

Trying to optimize styles that are already overworked is a hopeless task, and produces unexpected results all the time.
The consequence of this is that from now on I build all styles from scratch, because I want universal styles without all the damned effects that only destroy the sound image.

I wonder how long this will take…

[⚅Graham UK]

Korg Sound Engineers must be related to the many members on various forums who also boost style part voice volumes & OTS. Whatever pushes anyone to set 127's.

I have always found that Yamaha factory styles have nice middle ground volumes which gives a custom space to make personal adjustments.

[♔Chello]

Korg Sound Engineers must be related to the many members on various forums who also boost style part voice volumes & OTS. Whatever pushes anyone to set 127's.

I have always found that Yamaha factory styles have nice middle ground volumes which gives a custom space to make personal adjustments.

This is largely because they have to because the middle ground volumes are too high (often 110).
Even the Tyros1 has as high as 100, which in many cases gives too little headroom for upper voices and too weak bass and drums.

I have the opposite experience with the Yamaha, because upper voices were always too low.
DGX is the only exception I know of.
Korg has never had problems with too low a level on upper voices, regardless of the selected ground level, but 110 causes problems with getting enough sound pressure for bass and drums.

[⚖musicalmemoriesuk]

So it’s best to do everything from scratch yourself. Start with everything at zero and work up.

[♔Chello]

So it’s best to do everything from scratch yourself. Start with everything at zero and work up.

Definitely, unfortunately.
Korg has made so many fundamental mistakes with the Pa5X that this is the only sure way to achieve stable results.

[⚖musicalmemoriesuk]

But then if we do this or use this practice the end result should be something that we the end users want.