I like the new fantom stuff terry. I didn't care as much for the original version, but even that was good enough that it was a tough decision vs the Motif for me.

I demoed the fantom s at length... I think I like the majority of the sounds better on the Motif .. not all but a majority. The Motif's electric pianos in particular sold me. I will say however.. that I like the OS a ton better on the Fantom. I was able to figure things out and access functions / features with just a few hours on the board. In contrast, it took weeks for me to learn how to access similar functions on the Motif.
I like the Fantom better on some features too, and I believe one can now add user arps on the S model( lack of user arps was a big minus on the original version..at least to me ).

I don't know that I will go the Fantom route.. I still don't like all the sounds... especially guitars.., but I love the features and what I find to be the ease of access. I'm waiting 'til the ES comes out.. I really wish I could afford and had the room for an ES, Fantom S, and Triton studio 2, along with my current arrangers and a dedicated samplelogue synth ( my AJ speak for today's virtual / modeled analog emulations ). I'd love to own that new moog thing and the VR760 too. I just can't do it though.. so I'll wait and see how I like the ES .. and take it from there.

Good luck with the "S". I'm sure you'll enjoy it and make some cool music with it.

AJ