Originally Posted By: Phantom75
in the last decade, only Prelude and GW8 were developed by Roland Japan R&D,
E-09 was developed in Italy and assembled by Roland Japan in China...



That explains why the the sounds of the GW8 main presets are very different from the E/BK series as they are taken from the SonicCell (and thus mostly Fantom X). Obviously, the samples used by Roland Japan and Roland Europe were kept separated to a certain degree (e.g. good saxophones present in the Italian arrangers but missing in Fantom X, SonicCell, GW8). When I got the BK-7, I was really surprised about the good saxophones, which I had even missed in the SRX series.