After agonizing a little over the decision of Fantom vs Motif ( better interface vs better sound palette ) Roland would need to do something different to convince me to give a hard look at the Fantom again.

Adding more sampling ram does little for me. I have plenty of it in the Motif, but only because I had 256 mb of Dimms laying around that weren't busy doing something else. I use it occasionally to add a sample to the Motif's palette, but having the ability to add a vst type plug in would make it so much easier than having to go through the steps of recording, introducing, and assigning a sample.

Yamaha disappoints me a bit in that the Motif ES sounds great, but the plugins are pretty limited vs what Korg and Roland offer.

The next workstation I want to look should have support for something similar to VST technology, like they are adding to the V studio line. Then I could add my favorite software plug ins without having to bring along a laptop.


AJ