Originally Posted By Bill Lewis
Glad to see another musician discovering the overlooked BK9. It does all I want or need for live performance. I avoid the wheel by using the OTS which were at first hard to program but now very easy.IT sounds great too with my edited SMF's.
I also have two and two BK7m's so you can tell I'm a Roland BK guy for a long time.

Good luck with your new board.


Hi Bill,

Thank you very much for your reply. The BK9 is fabulous and I can't stop playing on it, almost daily (when my job allows!). I wished I had owned it sooner than now but I'm just glad I have it anyway. It's really refreshing and the styles are killer, especially the Live Band stuff, it sounds so realistic and does not sound out of place against the Pa5x or Event using similar styles. But every category has a lot of great styles, one after the other. The drum kits are fabulous sounding. I've also found a better way to select items than always using the wheel, it's not so bad after you get used to it. The only tiny small gripe I have is the screen, I preferred how they done it on the Ea7 with black background and white text, much easier to see. I still have the Ea7 anyway and that's also not going anywhere anytime soon!

All the best to you.
Danny