I go totally off topic now; anyway,
It's a realtime sequencer which works flawlessly and I would like to add that anybody who is able to work with an arranger board can handle a Kurzweil.
Let's face it , the arranger boards are the
toughest keyboards to handle well.

It does have a learning curve but it's so logically built up, that you won't have much problems to understand.
If you go into the VAST technique for producing your own sounds , sure this will keep you of the street for a year or so..but
the on board sounds ( I also have rom 1 and 2) and the sampler (max 128MB) give you already limitless possiblities.

You cannot compare the sounds with the sounds on the arranger boards.
The piano is a piano, The violin is a violin and so on... Ilja is absolutely wright there.
I had the VA 7 over the weekend at home just before my holiday and allthough it sounds good it missed the dynamic expression of a real instrument , like the K 2600 has.
The only thing which is tough on the K 2600 are the drums. Here the VA 7 was better.
But this has more to do with my lack of experience with the Kurz I guess.
But paying dfl 6000,-- ( us$ 2400) for drums only is a lot, so I probably buy a cd rom with drum sounds and load them in the Kurz.
Unlike most of you I don't gig, I use it at home for recording and composing.
Fred