Hi Dennis,

I hope your surgery went well...I had my own bouts with it last year, and hopefully you'll get along in recovery as well as I did.

I miss the KX8 already, although I have a Yamaha CP-300 arriving this afternoon, which also has a great weighted hammer action...but it weighs a lot more than the former having built in speakers probably contributes to a lot of it.

As I said earlier, the KX8's vast controller features were wasted on me as I generally don't even hook my keyboards up to my laptop.

Still, the action was exceptionally nice and the whole instrument has an air of quality about it, in spite of still being quite manageable weight wise...it's also not unwieldy in size, which will be a benefit if you plan on gigging with it.

If I can't get another KX8 in the next few weeks, I'll probably use the CP-300, as it has pitch/mod wheels and I won't have to be moving it alone...it weighs 71 lbs without the case.

I wish I could have tried the KX8 with a Sonic Cell...I couldn't locate one, but I will be looking forward to your assessment of the combination.

Ian