Dreamer,

Thanks for the comparison. This interesting because I never sampled VA7 before. I will be checking out this keyboard in the future.


Thank you always for the perspective. I agree with you. For me, I am always interested in comparing keyboards. I am always searching for the better keyboard. Not just for me, but so many other people in my daily live and my relationship within churchs depend on my recommendation on what keyboard to buy.

Finally, I am seriously considering buying a new keyboard. As you may know, I have an 88-keyboard which is over 90 lbs. I thought maybe it is time to give my back some break, and get 61keys/76 keys with speakers. and hence my questions.

Thanks.

Dreamer,

Did you get the chance to watch any soccer games?

reply back at the world cup soccer topic.

Thanks.

UD, I think you got confused on this post...how did the G1000 come into play in your comment?

Or am I the confused one

I was responding to macbabbi's post directly above mine. No harm, no foul.

ahhhh, fooled me
lol

I agree totally.I own both keyboards and am pretty dissapointed with the VA.This whole discussion (& others in the vein of my stuff´s better than yours )could have been avoided had Roland actually listened to G1000 owners/USERS suggestions,even their wish lists which have been postsd repeatedly in various forums(some wishes arent that difficult to make come true!). Had the mighty Roland done this and brought out a`G 3000´lets say,the competition would have been blown away.But,what could have been and should have been is Roland´s loss.

If u thought the VA7/76 is great wait till this summer... Roland is coming out with an all new arranger to replace the VA series...

Oh goody ..... more "hurry up and wait" promises.

Show me the goods !

I recently exchanged my VA7 for a Tyros(got it yesterday)For me the best features of the VA7 were the sounds,the polyphony and the style morphing feature.I really liked the way that you could switch to a different drum beat on the fly with the touch of a screne in the middly of a song.I ended up not preferring a touch screne for on the fly changes in an arrangement and often had to also use buttons as well-I would have got the hang of it with practice.I was dissappointed in the absence of an event editor so my mistakes had to be fixed up by punching in and out the affected bars and re-recording these bits.However the final disappiontment was the variphrase.More than half of the 10 or so wav files I encoded in it got distortions of various degrees.And the few that did work had a noticable loss of sound quality.I sent the VA7 back to the Roland service dept and they took a month to look at it before concluding that everything worked properly.So it was that variphrase couldn't handle the files I put into it.The files were complex pad sounds and choirs voices.anyway I am much happier with the responsiveness of the Tyros.I guess I am a button man rather than a touch screne man-but you don't find this out without trying out the alternatives.

And so say all of us Uncle Dave,Im am too a Roland fan but it must be said ,their ability to screw it up really amazes me.Not listening to their customers can be costly,does anyone remember the MEMORYMOOG !!!