Yeah the price tag does place it in fantasy land...only honestly Im sure one could spend half their asking price on other random gear, and get results beyond the "all in one" unit.

Hell...you could get a microkorg, ms2000, triton le, karma, some crazy amount of digital tracks all from korg for less far less.

!!!! you could get the Andromeda from Alesis !!!! with thousands left over!!!! Hah words I never thought I would say. You could get the entire Alesis line up with cash left over for mics mixer and so on :P

Im still waiting for them to surprise me with the real price of 6,000$ or lower, that at least borders on understandable insanity. Plus want to see the price of the new Alesis ( not that im gonna be buying one or anything ), cause there is a chance it could be half what the korg is and full of things we just dont suspect. Not to sound whatever just Alesis synth line up with the Ion and Micron ( VAs ) and the Andromeda hurts their respective competition badly. I would expect these features to excel on their new board Fusion at the very least.

Only I do feel korgs new board holds a potential nitch outside of hip hop.

"So are music stores going to let every kid on the block mug this $8k+ thing up on the showroom floor?"

lol IM not thinking to many stores are gonna have this on their showfloor...and those that do will have it surrounded by dozens of keyboard distractions as it sits on a platform throne with plasma screens looping the inception of the keyboard with the authority of a moon landing.