If the money works out, go for Bill's Audya. You can save quite a bit of the retail price. I know why he's selling it and it isn't because he doesn't love it!
If you like the X1, you will love the SD5, and the Audya even more.
If the Audya doesn't fit the budget, the SD5 will be a great bargain.
DonM

Really, the Audya, hands down, is THE best arranger I have ever seen. If I get another one soon, it will be Audya. I still have my s900 and it is fine and has its selling points. But I'm a guitar player... and my plans over the next several months are guitar only. But, as Don said, the SD5 is good, too.

Thing is, the X1 data is extremely unlikely to work in the SD5 or Audya. Only the S910 is going to allow you to use what you have previously created in the way of styles or registrations.

If the Audya's price is a sticking point, maybe go back to something familiar, yet still quite improved (Ian swears by how much better the S910 is over the S900) and in the same ballpark pricewise (even an SD5 is a BIG jump up in price compared to an S910), and just keep salting away what you can until you can actually afford what you WANT...?

At least that way, you will have time to see if the new mini-Audya is more affordable and more in line with what you need - the SD5 is definitely 'yesterday's news' by Ketron standards.

I could be wrong, but its disappointing how Ketron pretty much gave up on the SD5. I’m hoping that they release some sort of package for the SD5 users. It is still a great sounding keyboard and has some pretty neat features. But now that a 61 key audya is soon to be released, I guess that it is bye, bye SD5! I guess ketron needed to fill a avoid between the XD9 being discontinued and the release of the Audya 76.

[This message has been edited by mc (edited 04-01-2010).]

MC

Send me an email to "axa130@hotmail.com" with the subject "AUDYA".

MC,

You have mail!

Hey, AJ...

You EVER going to post that copyright information, or were you just blowing smoke up my *** when you emailed me?