I used pro Casio keyboards for several years...I had a CZ-1, and VZ-1 Phase Distortion synthesizers, and an FZ-1 16 bit sampler.

I knew several other players who used these instruments as well...the synths were partly designed around the wishes and ideas of Isao Tomita, the great synthesist who dreamed of the ultimate Casio Cosmo synthesizer/sampler.

These products were very well made and very powerful, and I only sold them because I got into the arranger gigging.

Casio is very capable of making a high end arranger...the rumors I heard from someone in the know, that there will be a powerful arranger sometime this year haven't been denied, so anything is possible from this company, and now that Roland is out of the way, who knows what they'll come up with.



[This message has been edited by ianmcnll (edited 01-15-2010).]