Andrea, THANKS for your usual insightful & precise analysis. As we've spent many days/hours last June playing music together and quickly becoming life long music buddies, I of course highly respect your opinions & observations. If it's true that the XD9 can import any or all of the SD1 sounds & styles to the XD9 hard drive, it appears it's possible to have the BEST of both the SD1 and XD9 on ONE keyboard. Hope you might be able to test/confirm this by trying this out on your Ketron keyboards.

Andrea, Looking forward to hearing your demos of the XD3 (XD9). Realizing your musical talent as demonstrated by your website songs, I'm sure we'll all be impressed. - Scott