You might want to pay $3500 for that board but they'd be losing money if they retailed it for that. The manufacturing and R&D costs alone would almost certainly make a workstation of that caliber cost twice that amount. Real time controls, extensive software, and high end hardware isn't cheap. Integrating all those components and making them work intuitively is another thing that would take many man hours of programming. It's just not going to happen anytime soon. At least not at that price.

FYI... Wersi has nearly every feature you mentioned with the exception of utilizing expansion cards. It uses VST's if you want to add to your sound palette. Polyphony is only limited by the software used and speed of the CPU processor. Here's a breakdown of some of the features:

Sampling and playback are disk based so no need to worry about RAM limitations. It supports AKAI samples and STS/Sonic Core samples as well.

Cubase was standard since OAS 6 so you've got more Audio and MIDI tracks than you're ever likely to need.

There are 28 real time sliders/drawbars that are programmable. These can be used for the sequencer, audio tracks, styles, level control, and as organ drawbars. There are also other real time buttons and controls that are programmable.

There are 3 pairs of stereo outputs, two microphone inputs, as well as two pairs of audio inputs. Effects/EQ can be applied to the mic and audio inputs.

Effects are all 32 BIT and have extensive editing features. Up to 3 different effects can be used per sound. There is also a global Reverb/Effect section for the main output of the instrument. Multi band EQ per sound and a global EQ are also present.

CDRW, DVD drive, hard drive, and floppy drive are standard.

Storage mediums are Floppy, Hard Drive, CDRW/DVD, or any USB based backup such as Smart Media or SDHC.

The unit has a 2 x 30 watt audio system with built in speakers and sub woofer. The internal Abacus sound system rivals any other arranger bar none. The Wersi Louvre audio system is more powerful than the Abacus and has no equal in a built in audio system.

Using OAA the Wersi can import nearly every arranger style and it will play Yamaha styles directly.

The Abacus Duo comes standard with both a 61 note and 76 note semi weighted (initial and aftertouch) keyboard that has a fantastic key action.

There are optional pedal boards available (13, 17, or 25 note) that further enhance the features of the system.

There are far too many other features to mention.


[This message has been edited by Ensnareyou (edited 08-20-2008).]