Jodasi...I have a Yamaha 9000Pro ( Plus Roland EM2000 ). Two friends have VA7 & VA76 so I can reply by saying, The VA76 is an excellent board with great sounds and styles. The only fault I find with the touch screen is that it badly needs a screen Page HOLD Button. There are a number of occasions that I have been using the Variphase to find that the page keeps dropping out of this selection. When you are playing you can't keep paging through to return to the Variphase page every time. The construction of the Roland I think is better than the Yamaha.

9000Pro, Again Top notch Panel voices & styles. The MusicDataBase is better than the one on the VA.
I dislike the rubber buttons. Overall I would be happy to have both boards, Its a matter of you spending time with a good pair if headphones on both boards and come to terms which for you is the easier to get round whilst playing. You can't make a bad decision here, you should be happy with either.

Graham UK