I just received my first shipment of G70 keyboards from Roland. As mentioned before, I have been authorized to sell these through the CK division of Roland. For those of you in Southern California, I will be able to sell you a G70 by coming to my store. You will not find the G70 at your local chain store such as Guitar Center or Sam Ash. Dealers have been set up in specific areas to sell in their local communities. If you live in my area, please drop in for a demonstration.
George Kaye
Kaye's Music Scene
Reseda, California
818-881-5566

So how is the G70, now that you have them in stock,

Can you do a compare with Ketron,Korg,Yamaha?

Thanks

Hi George
What will be the price here in the US?
Also bad as I want one,I don't guess I will be getting it if Roland is going to tell me where I have to buy it.
So George, are you saying that Zzounds are none of the other dealers on the internet can sell a G 70 to us?

Thanks Gene

only brick and mortar stores that are authorized to sell Roland CK products will have the G70's and Roland has a policy of not selling to customers that do not come into your store. You will not see these products at any of the on line stores.
Now that I've had the keyboard for the whole day and I've played with the EQ curves and effects, I really do like this board. It has a really nice user interface and although the styles might not all be completely changed from the VA line, there are dozens of very tastefully done new styles and I especially liked the Jazz and Big Band styles.
George Kaye
Kaye's Music Scene
Reseda, California

George I am glad to hear that you will be selling the G-70. Do you know the weight of that board?

It weighs 20.5 kg / 45 lbs. 4 oz.

Waw! I wonder how come the G70 is 45LBS and the Fantom x7 is purported to be 37LBS. Those styles must be really heavy.

It's sure to find in the musicstores webshops here in Norway now, and pretty
expensive as well. Tyros now cost "only" 2/3 of the price of G70.

But how does older styles load and play on G70, anyone tested? Do it read the
stuff from earlier models, or is it nessesary to convert before load?
(As we know, there are quite a lot of nice styles for Roland keyboardseries)
GJ

I asked th price for EXR 7 yesterday, in an exclusive Roland shop here in Athens.
About 770 E, cash.
I didn't dare ask the price for the G70, but they say they give a 15-17% off the advertised price, so I guess it is around 2500 Euros.

G-70 can read styles from earlier models without any conversion.
If you want you can easily 'refresh' them with new sounds using Style MakeUp Tools.