Oh, not for me thanks. I hate rubber buttons - too spongy feeling, I like the positive click. I've never had a problem with them on my board this past 6 years.

what kind of board you have renig?how many hours a week do you put in?

Soft, hard, click or no click, all that REALLY matters is MTBF....... mean time between failure, and dust and moisture resistance (really, part of MTBF).

I can get used to most button feels as long as the action is consistent and positive, but I tend to hang on to my arrangers for at least five years or more, and actually PLAY it for up to 30 hours a week, so reliability is my overall concern.

Manufacturers have to understand that the primary play buttons - ones that are constantly being used (Stop/Start, Variation and Fills, break/mute and part select) - tend to get hit with close to the same force that we play the keys. It is VERY hard to scale your force back for a quick button press and then go back to banging the keyboard, so these buttons ESPECIALLY need to be very strong and reliable.

BTW.... Roland decided to take the 1/2 measure fill function off of the front panel and give it a hidden place in the touch screen menus (you CAN put it on an assigned switch or footpedal, but there are few of these to share between MANY needed functions). A very poor design decision.......

I seen a documentary earlier this year where some company was in the tinkering phase of have a keyboard hooked up to the guys brain waves,and was actually obeying some of his commands on what function he wanted it to do..thats my era of music!

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I've had my Korg i30 for about six years without any problems at all. Even the EC5 pedalboard on which I have the right-hand pedal assigned as a sustain pedal has been trouble free. I probably spend about 12-15 hours per week playing time. Everything wears out over time, so one day something will give out, I guess - probably me. Yikes!

My body has definitely been less reliable than my Roland.......