I have to admit, if I were forced to play the BK-9 for the rest of my career, it would not be a problem..!

So far, nothing else at any price has the same combination of sounds, features and light weight with an excellent keybed. Roland went out on a high note with this one.

It’s just disappointing that they didn’t follow through on the EA7, which was a decent start of a new generation. And it’s primarily content that holds the EA7 back. Feature-wise, it’s got most of what we wanted except that damn break/fill! But a handful of MIDI multipads and zero audio ones don’t cut it…

A BK-9 with the EA7’s sampler and multipads (with more RAM and a ton of content) would have been a serious alternative to TOTL Yamaha’s and Korg’s that cost a lot more (remember, the BK-9 was closer in price to S950’s and PA1000’s than Genos’s and PA4X-76’s).