Squeak,
It says 120something user sounds.... if you can assign them to tones with wave, then you could have the big soundfont of your choice at your disposal, many soundfonts weigh around 25 MB and are satisfactory, at least for me. Probably this flash ram will be shared among sequencer, user styles-tones-drums, smf's and so on.

Anyway, I am happy that things progress for Casio.

Hey Mr. D...thanks for the links, we can count on you to keep us informed of anything Casio

Only heck I think the new boards are cool cause they could cause a price drop on the 3500 ( not that it doesn't already have a great price ), just for under 400$ it would be nice to add some of those Casio sounds into whatever your doing.

As for the 32MB sample space...thats not bad at ALL regardless of anything.

Gonna go check the site some more.

Thumbs up to Trident as well.

Little rant from me...the 32 poly...I can see where that could be a limitation, just heck if you stick to basic three/four part arrangements and dont use any overtly busy styles easy enough to work around

I don't think the memory will be shared with the sequencer and the user styles ect. The sequencer has it's own limit of 10,000 (regarless of the flash memory), and there are still (16) user slots for styles. This is all the same on the WK-3500 and it only has 2mb's of flash rom. I would think that if it was all shared then the sequencer would hold more notes, and there'd be more room for user styles as well. It appears to me that Casio is basically saying "if this board doesn't have the sound or sounds you want...here take this 32mb's of flash memory and get them"

I know I'll be buying one of these. Giving how Casio prices their units I'm estimating the price to be between $450-$499 USD. The improved sounds (not that the 3500 sounds bad), more voices, styles, and that HUGE flash memory is enough for me to upgrade. I may have had to luquidate my synth monies due to medical reasons, but this Casio won't break my budget.

Squeak

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"I know I'll be buying one of these. Giving how Casio prices their units I'm estimating the price to be between $450-$499 USD. The improved sounds (not that the 3500 sounds bad), more voices, styles, and that HUGE flash memory is enough for me to upgrade. I may have had to luquidate my synth monies due to medical reasons, but this Casio won't break my budget.

Squeak"

Dont know if you sold your drum machine...but the funds from that if you also sold your wk3500, would make getting the wk3700 not much a money issue at all. The medical stuff for more then money reasons.

Just hahah reflecting back on all the conflict you had picking a keyboard...looks like it turned out for the best. It could have sucked to spend lots of cash then just a month later have a new Casio tossed in your face.

I haven't played on a Casio instrument but if it is a raisonably good sounding keyboard, I will try it as a second keyboard with my Pa80.
This WK3700 looks nice

Alone,
I haven't had any luck on selling the DR-3. I posted it several places and haven't even got an email of interest just to make an offer. I may keep the WK3500. Not sure on that yet. I'll have to see how desirable the 3500 is in the used market after the 3700 is released.

Squeak

Anyone actually saw the things in Music Messe? Or even played them?

E.T.A. on the European market of these Casio keyboards is August at the earliest.
the smallest version , CTK 900 will retail at approx. 350 euros !!!!! the WK3200 and WK 3700 at approx. 699 and 799 euros. (RRP, so in actual fact these prices will be effectively 10 to 15% lower even !!!!!!!)
interesting development to say the least.

"I haven't had any luck on selling the DR-3. I posted it several places and haven't even got an email of interest just to make an offer. I may keep the WK3500. Not sure on that yet. I'll have to see how desirable the 3500 is in the used market after the 3700 is released."

Ahhh given the timeline john gave for the new ones to come out, lots of time to save cash. If you cant sale the DR-3...just use it, even if you have another drum machine there has to be things each one can do the other cant. Heck combine the two machines and see if you can come up with some stuff...couple of different loops off different machines combined can have cool results.

700-800 euros = how much in usa dollars??