There's a few things from Fran's E600 I didn't know Roland had dropped (or even had!).

Primarily, the Sequencer and Arranger synced together, and you could play both at the same time (mute the SMF drums and use the arranger's, for instance)... This is one of my most important requests (after the Chord Sequencer). I can't believe Rolands USED to be able to do this and dropped it

Besides two variations for styles..each variation has 4 selectable style orchestration buttons (to mute parts in certain variations?)

4 programmable phrase buttons (were these like multi-pads?)

Dedicated piano , with adjustable open/close and stretch tune (stretch tuning? Where's that on the G70/E80??)

Damper, sostenuto, and soft pedal jacks (now damper only, and the rest to the limited FC-7 choices)

Jeez.... Is there someone at Roland going 'This is a GREAT feature! We need to drop it ASAP '

Morons....

[This message has been edited by Diki (edited 08-01-2007).]