Russ,

I went from an MS40 module to an XD3 after 8 fine years with the Solton.

I miss the aftertouch (only on guitars as all other voices have more realistic natural vibrato sampled along with the sound) and I overcome this with the wheel or copying the voice into a user voice and adding delayed vibrato (I also change effects to taste as well so it's not a waste of a user voice).

There are more voices on the SD1 but I have the Orchestral expansion and the addittional pettern memory so this is not an issue.

Price wasn't a factor for me either but the weight was. I use the XD with either a lightweight 61 note keyboard for lugging around and a fully weighted 88 one for residencies.

If it is important to you, try picking up a 76 note SD1 in a semi-flight case and if you can then I don't wanna meet you in an alleyway on a dark night.....

KF

[This message has been edited by KFingers (edited 02-03-2004).]