Thank you all for your replies.

They certainly clarify the issue for me.

Fran, I am not yet ready to let go of the G1000. I find that it excels in sounds, styles, and midi files. I love being able to lock the style or transposer on the fly. However, my eyes are not as good as they used to be, and combined with the fairly small screen, this is causing me serious problems.

Recently I had a rare outdoor gig, playing with a trumpet player in front of nearly a thousand people. While the audio engineers were doing a sound check for us, I made a couple of adjustments to the preset for the first song (normally I use generic performance settings, but for situations requiring tight timing I will set up individual perf. memories). In the bright light I could not see that Melody Intelligence was turned on and that it used a wrong type of harmony and a different voice. Fortunately, my friend the trumpet player carried most of the song, once I realized that that it was me making those out of whack sounds. Still, this was my worst performance since the the time when at the age of 11 I had to play a short clarinet solo in an orchestra and started half a bar early...

I can't help but think that had I had a more user-friendly instrument, I could avoid this happening. Hence, every so often I like to evaluate my options.

Thanks again,
Alex