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Guys I certainly didn’t intend to start a conflict about Roland and Yamaha
This is just exchanging points of view - not a conflict. Don't be sorry. Always interesting to learn what other people think

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there is much more support for my PSR-3000 than for my Roland I guess the reason being there are more Yamaha users than Roland users.
That's excactly the matter. Nothing strange/new about that... unluckily Roland is not doing much of an effort to boost their keyboard club website. In my point of view they are way to unamtitious! It seems to me that they use their marketing budgets in a wrong way.

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I live in a large metropolitan area and could not find a G-70 to try I was told that it was a marketing strategy for Roland that only certain types of music stores could carry the G-70 this type of music store I don’t frequent.
Yes, this is the most crazy strategy!?!? To whom does this make any sense?! Wake up Roland!

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I will say the G-70 has many good features and sounds very good but Roland needs to understand as we say in the south (you catch more flies with honey). I was going to sell my 3000 and Midjay but have changed my mind and will keep them both. Being from Shreveport Bossier and having worked on the original Louisiana Hayride my heart is in country music, so far I have found this is an area Roland falls very short on.
They are hundreds of country style out there for Roland arrangers. They are not optimized for the G-70, but they play fine on the G-70. Using the G-70's make-up tool you can easily make the older Roland styles sound good. BTW - there are also great styles made especially for the G-70 .

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I must say Roland has nice Big Band, Hip Hop, and Rock styles so I hope there might be some good country styles out there that I can use.
Sure - there are plenty of styles to get. You will probably be able to get thousands of styles from your friends here at SZ. There are also website offering free styles, and then there are a few manufacturers producing styles for the G-70:

Free downloads: http://home.planet.nl/~aeduin/downloadRoland.htm http://www.selskabsmusikeren.dk/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=24&Itemid=32 http://www.task4.biz/klanten/RolandE600/download.htm http://www.keyboardforum.nl/stylesroland.php

Buy styles: http://www.selskabsmusikeren.dk/index.php?option=com_weblinks&catid=23&Itemid=23
Especially look for Midi Spot and PVK Midifiles.

But there is MUCH MORE out there Good luck!