The VA76 was discontinued here in the USA November of 1994. The G70 was introduced in January 2005. The user interface is much easier to navigate on the G70 compared to the VA76. Also, the voices in the G70 are more similar to the Roland Fantom series of keyboards plus there is a vocal harmonizer which was not on the VA76. You can also use a PCMCIA adapter and use any kind of hard drive or storage card you might want to use where on the VA76 you were stuck with a Zip disk which is no longer considered state of the art, plus they were noisy and broke alot if you moved the keyboard around alot.
I also sell alot of Korg PA1XPRO keyboards. The benefit for some is the quality and number of onboard styles. Korg is great at really giving you tons of usuable styles. Some wish there were more than 2 intros, endings and fills because the Roland has 4 inro's endings and 6 fill ins. Korg also offers the CD burner and MP3 optional features. Some will complain about the Korg only having 62 notes of polyphony, but understand that in the korg way of doing things, even though a sound can have up to 5 oscilators, no sound ever uses more than one note of polyphony when you play a single key on the keyboard. Many other brands use up to 2 or 4 notes of polyphony for every key played. I think Korg is unique in their system of voice allocation.
All in all, both keyboards are strong. The korg features great styles and a built in sampler, the Roland has great sounds and very good styles, although more would be better out of the box and a very strong user interface and great vocal harmonizer (korg is also very good). It's a hard choice! Some of my customers have both!
George Kaye
Kaye's Music Scene
Reseda, California
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George Kaye
Kaye's Music Scene (Closed after 51 years)
West Hills, California
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