Hi Paul

I think you were not yet active in the forum when the reasons for a VH board for an arranger with vocal harmony came up. A vocal harmony effect could be used with "natural" samples to give them an extended useful pitch range, without giving up the harmonizer for voice. It would be like having Variphrase and vocal harmony on the same keyboard.

Your "ideal" or at least "desired" keyboard is very close to mine. I do want polyphonic aftertouch, though; it seems the most natural way to get expression from a keyboard. In fact, I once read and saw pictured a keyboard with two-dimensional polyphonic aftertouch.

Clif