Hi Diki,
First I want to say thanks for helping and trying to get me through the learning curve. I have a feeling there are several bugs in the current OS offered by Roland. The main thing that caused me to just give up on it was the fact that several settings I made to both rhythms and saved performances defaulted to the original versions after doing power off-on events. To be clear, yes I did read and re-read the manual. I did in fact do a factory reset and start all over using only the users manual and followed along page by page performing the tasks per the printed instructions. It actually was a good learning tool. For instance, for the life of me I could not get the favorites tones to stay the way I set them up after I powered down. Also, the tones assigned to the buttons, not favorites, would also not stay the way I had them set. I went through global saves, and what ever saves were offered to maintain my setups. I never got the split point to stay where I set it - even after doing a global save. I never was able to make the split mode stay on and had to turn it on after EVERY rhythm, variation, or performance change. The same was true even with rhythms and variation selections Either I am the dumbest person ever to own an arranger or there or bugs in the OS.

There are some really good features on the BK-9 which I did like. I wish all the arrangers I owned had this key feel. I liked the concept of favorite tones. I liked the concept of saving rhythms. I liked the concept of creating unlimited gig sets using the performance assistant. I do like the idea that factory tones and rhythms are protected but can be used to make adjustments and saved. Even the wheel was ok after getting use to it.

In general, I just don't wish to spend anymore time trying to get it setup the way I play. I know with the Korgs I have owned it was not this complicated or hard to understand. In about 3 days I took the PA900 out of the box to a gig with it setup up for all my playing needs.

Anyway, I don't want this to turn into "mine is better than yours" discussion. I truly believe for those players who don't rely on the arranger functions on the BK-9 and play full piano keyboard style using bass and drums the BK-9 would make a killer keyboard for them.

I hope this explains my decision.

Deane