Perhaps we could take up a donation and get Fran a G70 for his review. Then he could sell it to me cheap

zuki

Roland should give Fran a G70 for review purposes, if not outright. Fran seems to "resonate" with Roland technology, so he would put the G70 in its best light. If he had criticisms, Roland would know what to work on. A positive review would be more likely than a magazine ad to boost sales.

I have sold dozens of G70 keyboards since last February. Many potential customers came in after reading many of the posts here at the Synthzone expecting to dislike the G70 and usually walked away not understanding the criticisms aimed at this keyboard.
Now that the G70 has been around almost a year, my complaint, which is being echoed by many of the members here is that there is a need for more styles. Roland engineers from Italy last year at NAMM told me there would be a website where buyers could download free styles made for the G70. As of this date, only 4 styles have been added to this site.
I for one wish there was a site like the PSR Tutorial or the Korg PA website for owners of this keyboard to be able to visit and download additional styles.
At the keyboard gathering AJ had last week in Maryland, AJ states that his G70 came in second place in Customer comparisons and that the Tyros, Korg and Generalmusic entries were far behind what musicians liked. First place went to the SD1+EXP as I would expect because this is AJ's own creation (EXP board) and he has put a lot of work into this expanded version.
Those who have not liked the G70 I would suspect as I often do might not have heard it with the latest software or got a demo by someone not really knowing the keyboard well or only heard it on the internet which often produces less than steller audio clips.
I do hope Fran some day gets to do a full evaluation of the G70 and share his comments with the rest of us.
George Kaye
Kaye's Music Scene
Reseda, California

Yes everyone should provide emotional support so that Fran could successfully abandon the G1000 and acquire something else .... even the G70 would do .... but don't give it to him for free!!!!

Fran has recovered his investment more than once (not fair) on his G1000 and needs to spend some dollars to aid the economy and the pockets of the big arranger makers. Fran will end up with to much money and will forever become confused.