Hi

I'm a danish musician. My jobs is mostly weedings, birthdays, receptions and so on.
I bought the Roland G-70 i december. My expectations were enormous. I've played the G-1000 for more than 6 years, and I've been very satisfied. But after 6 years my ears were a little bit tired of the sound of my G-1000. So I have been waiting for the new Roland G-70 for a long time. And finally I got it. But............
I most say that it's very dissapointing what Roland comes up with. Here we have been waiting for a brand new keyboard, and I was so sure, that finally Roland would kick Yamaha's ass out of the market.
First of all, the sounds of G-70 simply doesn't match the standard of today. There is simply too much VA sound over it. The drumsounds are simply not good enough. I miss the old bass sound from the good old G-800 wich have been in both the G-1000 and the VA. The organsounds are increadible good, and so are the brasssounds. But when you connect it to a PA system the G-70 doesn't move anything. I don't have the feeling of a fat and lovely rich sound.
All the features such as the makeup tools and so on is very very good. The hardware is absolute the best on the market. Metal case, lovely keys and very nice buttons.
But that is not much help when the software leaves so much behind. And when it comes to software there isn't much hope for us who needs different styles on our jobs. Well you can just take the old styles from the VA and use them in the G-70. But every soundlevel must be changed and equed. There is simply to much work with the G-70 before you can go on the first job.
Here Yamaha comes up with a keyboard that sound good, is easy to handle and after a few days programming you can take it on your first job. That's very userfriendly.
I most say that all this combined, the outdated sounds, the lack of software, I most say that the G-70 is not a keyboard for me. It's very sad because I had so big expectations to this wonder.
So I have decided to deliever my G-70 back to the dealer and keep my good old G-1000, and wait til the new Tyrus II comes later this year.
Sorry Roland, YOU CAN DO BETTER.
That's just my opinion.
Sorry for my english*S*

Synthmann