i hear you Alex and i understand that its all down to choice but like i said initially a sequencer will not add to the weight or detract from any other function that Ketron wanted to add but what it will do is immediately negate purchases from people who create on the fly or at the spur of the moment like me. People who can maybe spare a couple of hours a week toplay the instrument and dont want to waste time connecting Amps and computers and drum machines, synth modules etc. It is just impractical for me to devote one room in the house for music where the keyboard is permanatley set up and connected to other hard ware like a computer that other members of the family might want to use.

Just makes no business sense to omit it. It having one would enable just 2 additional purchases of the isntrument , wouldnt that justify having one ? Would the inclusion of a sequencer have turned people off the SD5 or increased the sales of the SD1 ? I mean how hard could it have been to implement the existing SD1 sequencer into the SD5 ?