Hi Clif,

The store in the SF Bay area (Northern California) that carries Solton keyboards is "Music Unlimited". They have three locations: Dublin, San Leandro, and Monterey, California.

I auditioned the Solton X1 at the San Leandro store over a year ago. I remember being very impressed with the drums (very life like, great fills with lot's of punch) and excellent auto-accompaniment styles. Unfortunately, the acoutic piano (an all important patch to me being that I'm an acoustic piano player) sounded pretty lame. I was also disappointed to discover that the X1's chord recognition feature did not recognize the rootless type chord voicings I desire.

I've heard that since that time, Solton has added a greatly improved acoustic piano patch to the X1. I am now curious to find out if Solton might have added more advanced "rootless" chord recognition features to the X1 as well. This is the reason I am asking Solton X1 owners out there to check if their X1 keyboards recognize the rootless chord voicings I describe in this posting thread.

- Scott