Does anyone know if the style conversion action has been improved on the 7000, and whether it now covers all other manufacturers's styles?

The 6000 system is slow and tedious having to insert one disk and then another..

Peter

we'll have to see. The only real way of faster operation is to spend money on the EMC software. That just zips along on the pc, but we are still waiting to see if 6000 format will ever be implemented for all the useful pc editing functions (it only works up to 5000 format at the moment).

However I did have a conversation with the programmer at Frankfurt and there is a possibility the 7k comes with the updated conversion disk with Yamaha and a few other new models incorporated. Again we just have to wait and see.

I guess I will throw my 2 cents in here. 1st off, I like the way my 6500 is set up. The buttons are close to the keys and in an excellent arrangement! The 7000 has moved them up, and from what I saw in the picture of the 7000 they are not arranged as well, making it not as user friendly. A huge pull up panel is more for looks than anything and I think is meant to impress the eye. More styles? Yeah, but why do I care about that when I dont use many of them anyways. They are not good for original rock or country music. And last, companies upgrade as little as possible to sell the new model. If they upgrade too much, too many people upgrade and that puts many used say 6500's on the market, causing less sales of new 6500's and still less 7000's. The object is to sell new models while keeping the value of the older model up as high as they can. If the 7000 was really really greater than the 6500, then the 6500 would go way down in value and they still want to make a good buck on the older technology. When video games went from 32 bit to 64 bit, there was little graphic improvement. Some of super nes games were as good as some of the n64 graphics. Thats stategic marketing, and any smart company will do it. My guess and I repeat guess,,, it that the 7000 has no big improvements on existing features and sounds. Although there are new features that are very nice. I want to also add that for 3000 bucks my 6500 sounds are rather thin, and why not 128 note polyfony instead of 64. 6500 was overpriced and so will be the 7000.
Tony

the marketing has always been strange in the USA, with the price differentials to competition, and thus the value, the other way round to here, and some other countries. I've recieved many mails over the years about this from America. I think it's the main reason why the kns have not the market share there that they have in some other countries, although choice of preset styles may be a secondary factor.