The closest keyboard in the entire world that meets many of my stage needs is the Yamaha 9000 Pro - after I added two expansion cards, a hard drive, sample RAM, travel cases and LittleLites. I probably have $4000 invested in it plus a lot of time makig it work the way I want. And even still it could stand many fundamental improvements in design, it's sounds are a little dated compared to the newer MegaVoice stuff, and Yamaha has now dropped it altogether after about three years of lukewarm support.

I really don't want to rebuild someone else's product to meet my needs like this again, and with softsynth and VSTi instrument technology growing so fast I think that we are on the verge of breaking away from the big music companies. Laptops are far more powerful and far cheaper than new pro-level keyboards and MIDI controller options are plentiful. Open Lab's Neko keyboard is still too expensive for practical use but it's the future and I'm sure others will make cheaper versions soon.

I don't know what my next live stage instrument will look like at this point, but I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out to be a lightweight & inexpensive 76 or 88 note MIDI controller that doesn't come from Yamaha, Keytron, Korg or Roland - and most of my future investment going into software and a mega-laptop computer.