Well after a couple hours at home with the new Roland DisCover 5, here goes some first impressions..First, the harmonizer is very decent with lots of controls and settings..It also has the talk button that turns effects off and lowers the keyboard[music]..for blabbing..What the DisCover does for SMF's is amazing..there are 72 quick changes in real time, you can totally get a different feel for a sequence;if you are bored with your sequences, this alone will bring life back to them,,and here is a feature I was unaware of till I played with it at home..the keyboard can set 4 different marks with in a sequence, the buttons[real buttons] are marked verse,chorus,bridge, and ending..you can set these at any spot within a sequence[resave and always have the marks ready]..How often at the end of a sequence, a couple comes out on the floor as the seq. is over,,,not with this board, take it back to the bridge or what ever..great feature..As a plus Roland includes 105 sequences with factory jump marks ready to go..I was concerned about using this board without taking my arranging keyboard along,especially for request live with drums, manual bass and piano...No sweat..Roland included 42 drum tracks[SMF], they have the same jump mark features as the songs..just pick a drum track, play along with a verse[drums]change to the bridge[another variation], chorus[another] and an ending when you want to stop[you can change any marks that you like. but Roland did a good enough job the way they are,there are even fills you can place a mark at..The sounds are excellent,they are the new patches from the VA series including the scat patches..I even assigned a scat to the D beam controller..My basic set up using the rhythm,,,left hand bass[Acoustic bass with ride cymbal], right hand piano. You can even edit the drum kits both using the cover features or individual drum instruments ..All the edits, Vocal settings and SMF links can be saved in a user program[128]...That's enough for now, I have to get back to the DisCover 5..