George,

welcome back. Did you post the review of Genesys already? or is the post you are referring to is a future post?

Alex

I totally agree about the VA7/76 being well below what was expected. I have owned both of the instruments (not at the same time) and sold them a while ago, keeping my G1000 and SD1. The VA range is just a glorified G1000 and far slower to use in a live situation. The sounds and styles don't make you go wow like they do with the SD1.
The real competition will now be Genesys, Tyros, KN7000 and Solton stuff

Yes I know there are people that prefer to
day still horses and don't like cars or air-
planes.But a fact is the sounds of the VA7/76
are the top of to day. The SD1 is a very good
second and the Genesys will reach that high
level too.Other factories soon will follow
in the future.

"My stuff is better than your stuff" doesn't get us anywhere. Different strokes for different foks. Anyway my stuff is better.
DonM

Mart Weeho,

Question 1: Many here believe that the sounds on PSR9Kpro or even PSR2k are better than Roland VA7/76. What do you have to say about that?

Question 2: Have you actually heard and sampled Genesys?

P.S., my keyboard is better than DonM's keyboard and that is what counts.

Yamaha has great sounds on the 9000 and the
2000 but that is for me not the only thing
that matters. The VA keyboards do offer me
more in their arrangers. For keyboardplaying
on a higher level you must have the possibi-
lity of varying in Maj. Min. and Sept. chords
or even more. The VA7/76 allow you e.g. to
use a drumtrack of 24 measures if you should
want this in combination with other tracks
of 8 measures. No other keyboard can make
this possible in the same way.
To answer the next question" Not only George
Kaye has seen and heard the Genesys"!

Mart,

Thank you for answering the first question.


However, you did not answer the second question. I did not ask whether George Kay sampled it or not. And I did not ask whether George was the ONLY person who sampled and heard it. I asked if you heard it and sampled it.

SK880user,
As you may know, I own a VA7 and these very days have been playing Scott's PSR2000 almost every day. I think that, quality-wise, the PSR sounds are on the same level as the VA7 (to my ears they are both sampled at 44.1kHZ/16 bit). I haven't had the time to check all the sounds and am almost sure that the VA7 has more waveforms (especially in the Synth department), but I liked a lot some of the PSR sounds, like the Tenor and Soprano saxes and the Organs in general. Other sounds, like the acoustic piano, the electric pianos or the drums are maybe better on the VA7. So, it all comes to a matter of taste, as usual.
I wonder: why instead of spending all this time debating about my stuff, your stuff, etc, like a bunch of adolescents don't we try to improve our chops?
I am learning a lot from Scott these days and this rootless chord thing really does make a difference when you play and I am not talking just of jazzy stuff.
Just my 0.002 cents
P.S.: make love, not war (I am in San Francisco, after all...)

DonM,

I agree with you a 100%, that your stuff is better.
After all we all look at you and Uncle Dave for the latest thing and what you guys have to say about it. After all you guys are the seasoned Pro's.

Let's play music (Santana or so OK,OK Elvis lives too )

Eric

Of course Costello still lives, didn't you know?