AJ,

The pianos on the G70 are fantastic, at least to my ears. The sounds that I play with the left hand are usually the pianos, especially when the right hand solos are different instruments. With velocity sensitivity you can make those piano sounds really cut through the mix.

Being able to play riffs with the left hand takes away from the canned feel of the pre-programmed styles - sooner or later this gets to be an issue with any instrument, and this is where I feel it becomes so important to be able to play "help" the style. The only way to do that, though, is with the Piano-style chording in the left hand, which allows you to press a 3-finger chord to set the arranger chord, and then play riffs/solos pressing 1 or 2 keys at a time.

BTW, for that same reason I needed to buy a 76 key instrument (with 61 keys there is simply not enough room for the left hand riffs).

I hope that Roland will acknowledge and fix the problem with the OTSes that in its present mode of operation makes so little sense and negates these important capabilities of their instrument (they did it in the E80 after all).

Regards,
Alex

[This message has been edited by Alex K (edited 08-05-2006).]