Gregg,

Hi there.

I have 2 GEM keyboards but Ive given one to my father to use (WK8). At home, I still use the older generation of GEM keyboards (WX2) because I think the WX2 (for me) is the best GEM keyboard they've made. But thats a personal view.

Make no mistake, these are excellent keyboards, GEM keyboards has many options that are extremely useful not to mention sound good sounds and good styles (ranging from good to excellent), but most of them are very usable and professional. The sequencers are brilliant and easy to use, the karoake feature (if you should need to use it) is the best found on any keyboards to date (that includes my X1 as well), the manuals are very helpful and i found them to be usefull myself, the operating system on the WX2 & WK8 are excellent, i like the keyboard layout as well on both and its the only keyboards I can play in the dark because the buttons light up and I can see what i am doing!

The only think I would say though in fairness is that since the top of the range WK8 was brought out (mid 1998), there has not been a major update since and perhaps for the price there may be better options to look elsewhere.

But you can't go wrong with GEM, I think they are fantastic keyboards. Somebody offered me £1000 pounds (which is around $1600 dollars) for my 7 year old WX2 and I turned them down flat!! Thats how much I value GEM's products !!

DannyUK