For anyone who knows, does the "Dance" Expansion Board contain ll or most of the beats on the "HipHop" board??? Am I correct in thinking the Dance board has more scrathing/DJ effects???

Which is a better choice??
Also, are there ny other boards to consider or avoid???

If I could only have one expansion board, it would be the vintage synth.

on the techno/hiphop/dance boards, they have beat loops for the first 100 patches or so...
these are possible to create by yourself without these boards (unless they use patches which are on the board) correct???

Can you created your own loops? Yes, but not with the preset loops. You'll have to record them yourself, b/c the preset loops are saved as patches on the card. THey only go for about 50 patches or so on the techno card.

Roland disconinued the dance board (and module) because they were taken to court re- copyright or something like that. I own the dance module and hip hop card. The loops in the hip hop card are all different. As far as I am concerned the dance board(module) is more suited for general commercial dance music as it's loops rance from quite slow to fast and everything in between! However some of the patches are now a bit dated! If I had to chose one over the other, I would definetly get the Hip Hop board. They are great loops and some other great patches are also there. I also own the 'Techno' board which as far as I am concerned is crap! The only reason I bought it was because I thought it WAS THE DANCE BOARD!!!! I think the designers of the loops on this card were on another planet when they were creating them because they are utterly and totally useless as far as I am concerned! And the vocoder speech sounds are a valuable waste of PCM space!

I found this site about exp boards, http://www.louisville.edu/~gtcraw01/expbrds.htm . It might help you.