Nigel still hasn't straightened out my former profile so I guess I'm stuck being TAFKA for now and possibly forever (sigh).

My setup also has reduced quite a bit over the past few years to what it is now:

-Yamaha 9000 Pro
-Kurzweil PC2x
-Kurzweil PC88mx
-Kurzweil Micropiano module
-Oxygen 8 controller
-Creative Prodikeys
-Suzuki Qchord (a MIDI autoharp-arranger!)

The 9000 Pro is my workhorse, carrying 99% of my live playing now and even doing double-duty in the studio now and then. But Yamaha has really angered me with it's non-support of this instrument and the limitations on it's potential. They've promised things like OPT voice editing for it only to turn around and deliver nothing more than an apology. If the new Korg PA1X lives up to it's promise then I may ditch the 9000 Pro and Yamaha altogether as payback.

The PC2x is studio-use only and the PC88mx is semi-retired from too much stage use to now being a midi controller (it may become my wife's toy soon, like the QChord that I gave her last Christmas). The Micropiano module is just a handy thing to have because now and then I get stuck playing someone else's crummy digital piano. The Oxygen 8 is strictly for softsynth work/experimenting, and to my own surprise I get a lot of use out of the Prodikeys when I want to hack out a rough song sketch.

Despite my wife's precognitive "I know you're thinking about buying a new keyboard" (do all arranger-muso wives say that?); I really don't plan on any major keyboard changes unless:

a) the Korg arranger blows the 9000 Pro away
b) Yamaha regains my trust and I go for a Motif ES/01x studio
c) Open Lab's eKo becomes more viable and less expensive
d) something totally unexpected comes along to replace all of the above

[This message has been edited by TAFKA ThePro (edited 07-07-2003).]