Fran: Thanks, I'll look at the styles you suggested and keep working on the ones Donny sent me.
Some other problems with the EA-7. What direction is Roland heading with the arranger line? The "top of the line" BK-9, a good board, has been discontinued. That leaves the BK-3, an entry level board and the BK-5 a small step up. The EA-7 is now the effective "top of the line." And it is geared toward the world market with what 40-50 world styles when there are maybe 8 country styles.
Another nit is support. The Roland arranger forum has Diki, a very knowledgeable guy, and Fran who also is very helpful. Other than that, it is mostly guys from other parts of the world asking questions. Also, the forum is not that active. Another issue is videos or the lack of English language ones. Also, no content for the sampler.
As I said, the EA-7 is a good board but there are issues from my perspective. I'll wait and see what Yamaha is doing, but I'll probably end up buying something from them and doing a side by side comparison.
The BK series where Roland Italy designed.. which is closed down..
The ea7 was build in Japan with the south asian market in mind, that market is huge for cheaper arrangers.. and they dont mind if a keyboards build quallity is by Casio's standards.. thats also the market where the ea-7 is a huge hit..
Seems to me as for now Roland has said goodbye to the high end european arranger market, the BK9 was allready not a high end product
Seems however that there is a new worlstation high end from Roland comming out next year Namm, its supposed to have all possible backing features on board.. but only time will tell if this is just a rumor, or one that beholds some truth..
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