Terry,
I've been very pleased with the performance of the 896. The quality I think is very good for what I do and the overall Effects I get from my software, which I am also very pleased. I'm not a very good keyboard player at all. I sing and have been singing since I was 9 yrs old. Played with a lot of top acts and did the circuit, now its just me and my studio. I do have a few small tunes, original, some not complete. I would like to post but I don't have a site....Lou

Donny
All I can say is for the past 6years I've been fighting the pc with all its glitches, hardware problems and incompatibilities, downloading drivers and what have you. Now I turn on my Mac, open Digital Performer 3 hit record and it just all works, it truly has brought me back to writing and creating. Don't get me wrong and I don't want to start a PC/Mac war. PC s work, but for me Mac does it better....Lou