I have an Equinox and the sounds for oriental music are superb. Sounds are purely individually asthetic anyway, no matter how you look at it. I love it much more than my Roland and Korg! It is a hard contender with my Nord Modular though. But we are talking two different animals.
I know there is a lot of WK8 support in the GEM users group. But their news letter are very few and far between.