just curious guys but what really are the major differences between the E80 and the G70 with OS3?

put the speakers aside, the G70 has more keys for starters.

from all the demos i have heard online i have not noticed a difference...

please enlighten me fellas

[This message has been edited by Dnj (edited 05-08-2007).]

I don't have either yet so can't comment from my inaccurate memory.
I don't know anyone that has them both so may not get a comment from anyone on that.
The Roland District Sales Manager Travis that demo's the rig said the E 80 was a G70 on steroids and then proceeded to tell me all the things it could do that the G70 with the upgrade did not.
I have posted above a url that has both reviews and demo's that you can visit.
Bebop

E80... fewer sounds, but better, more recent ones (G70 has a lot of older G1000 sounds for backwards compatibility).

E80... 3 MFX insert effects, on Song, Style or Keyboard Parts. G70.. One MFX on Keyboard only (although there's an easy workaround to get one more, on song/style or keyboard part).

E80... Two Master Effect (3-band comp and EQ) on Style/Song and Keyboard Parts. G70 one Master Effects on main output.

E80... text to style AND song display (with bitmap graphics display, too), G70 text to song only (sigh!).

G70... Main AND 2 direct outputs AND Vocalizer outputs, E80 Main outputs ONLY.

E80... 61 keys G70.. 76

E80 has speakers (and weighs more!)

E80.... 2 SRX slots, G70... one.

Some minor OS differences, nothing major.

Hope this helps....

As also Fran says, no people from Technics cooperated to E-80 development; it was developed by the same team that developed Roland E-series (except E-09) and G-series so far.

To add more details, E-80 has several brand new drum kits with a lot of new drum sounds, it has the same Piano sound of RD700SX/SRX-11 (that replaced the G-70 Piano sound coming from FantomX), and some new Guitar and Bass sounds that G-70 doesn't have.

There is a lot of knowledge on the Danish Roland Arranger site. Diki is one of their experts, he does a very good job on that site.

Yes, and this is the address of the new version of the site: http://roland-arranger.com/

Correct me if i am wrong but i was aware that certain "technics people" were involved with the Tyros 2 actually...

That was my understanding too - I had heard that some of the former Technics team were responsible for the Brass sounds on the T2?