Only someone who works for Roland could wonder why you spend so much time on your digital grunge crusade? You have to admit that you're prolific in your anti-roland postings. Why do you care so much? I'm genuinely curious. Do you do this for every company that makes a product you don't like? I'm just wondering why you haven't gotten over it yet.

But my question is when roland has a new board they have to advertise another souund card for $250,when the tritions cime fully loaded for $200 more.

And I love Roland

Don't get me wrong. I actually like the Triton. But where do you come up with $200 difference to get a fully loaded Triton? zzounds.com has the 61 key for 2199, the pcms for 169 each, and the moss board for 479. That comes to over $3000 Granted, you're talking about more features than anything roland has to offer... but you're going to pay more than $200 to get them. Getting back to the xp-30, 900-1000 bucks gets you a pretty good keyboard for that amount of money. For strictly amateurs, and for people like me who need their money put towards new cars, roland is the best option out there.

BTW, I was kinda hoping arvon would reply back. seems the fun is over. I have to confess that I noticed his email address for his profile here happens to be the same one at the bottom of the harmony-central posting (which was conveniently not copied along with the rest of it).

Is that you Syrup dude? I figured you would still be at the store buying your daily supply of Nyquil...........

Roland does make decent stuff.
I had a d-10 that I felt was excellent.

In my opinion, not even the xp's can compare with the D series.

The xp-30 is a good deal for what you get. But paying 1400 for an xp60 and 1800 for a xp-80 that have sound quality issues is not cool.

In fact, the 30 is probably the best thing out there for under 1500k.

I now own a Triton, and to me, it is far superior to the 60.

I've figured it out, guys...Arvon45 is the Smoking Man and the 2nd gunman on the Grassy Knoll!!!

*morphyx enters the room in full asbestos flak jacket and kevlar helmet*
*a-hem* Thankyou for all your help,...youve all convinced me to buy the EMU Proteus 2000. 128 vc poly/32 midi chan/32 meg rom included 4 expansion slots/4 realtime knobs etc. $749. Happy flaming one another. morphyx

[This message has been edited by morphyx (edited 01-26-2000).]