This board (and the pice tag no less) seem appealing to me. Major turn off is the stick instead of the pitch wheel.

being in Australia, do i have the option to buy either the E or the L model?

Nick all thats available out here is the E model. I did ask when I got mine and Roland told the store the E was it.

Dennis

In Europe (at least in Germany, Austria where I live) you can order and buy both models in big musicstores!

The model I want is the Asian version (GW-8A) because in looking at the voice list, I saw dozens of presets taken directly from Roland's World SRX card. With the kind of music I'm into, these kinds of sounds would fit the bill perfectly! Looks like I would have to order from a source in India.

Michael

I've been fooling around on a GW-8 today at my local Roland and Yamaha dealer. They're moving a lot of '8s, apparently, and cheerfully telling prospective punters there's no Yamaha to beat it on the value proposition.

They're right too. Yammie's contender to the GW-8 is the S550. The GW-8 falls right in between the S550 and the S700 though. It costs a little more than the S550.., but less than the S700. It has more features than the S550.., and it's a "give one take one" when comparing it to the S700 in terms of features.

Roland put themselves in a very good spot with this latest update to the GW-8 (AND FREE TOO).

Squeak