Much better then on the back.

Bachus,
I asked your questions to Yamaha. No, you cannot use both the USB midi and the actual midi ins and outs at the same time. It's one or the other.
There are no SA voices on the Montage

Bachus,
I asked your questions to Yamaha. No, you cannot use both the USB midi and the actual midi ins and outs at the same time. It's one or the other.
There are no SA voices on the Montage

Nigel,
I was disappointed with the styles that were in these first units. I thought I was going to hear a pro arranger from Casio that would compete with the styles I'm hearing in the other similarly priced competitors products but I didn't. The level of sophistication these keyboard has is great but I wanted the bread and butter sounds, guitars, woodwinds, brass, etc. to be up to the same level as their great piano, elec. pianos and organ sounds they've been doing now for many years with the Privia line of products. Casio really needs to nail their cymbals and up their accomp. styles. to compete with the likes of Yamaha and Korg.