I agree with Don. Yep, the manual is thick for the PA80, but the board has a lot of functionality, and I was able to nail down anything I needed to know from inside of it. I liked the looseleaf design too. Still, it can be difficult reading... I thought the manual for the PSR2000 was a little more vague, but as was mentioned, help is plentiful on the net via sites like Joe Water's PSR tutorial, SVP world, the unnoficial PSR 740 homepage, and of course right here at SZ, among othes.

Now the Motif.. Confusing.... and very very complicated. It literally took me months to really understand what was going on in there, and the manual, despite being lengthy, really doesn't go very deep into it's functions. Without the help of the Motifator site, I might very well have given up on it, but am glad I didn't...

I echo what Scott says. In many cases I haven't had to rack my brains trying to figure this stuff out because of the help given on these sites. Since I got my second PSR2k, I've hardly opened the manual. Instead I just went to Joe's site and found whatever I needed there. I had remembered some things from my first 2k, but it had been over a year since I had sent the first one back, and I couldn't remember all of it.

AJ