SK880 User,
How right you are!
Last week, I shipped a WK8 oriental to a new customer in San Diego, California. I think after the first 4 days and about 40 phone calls to me he was on the verge of wanting to return it. I told him to hang in there because at first he was floored with how great the arabic sounds, styles and every other style and sound was, but as he kept trying to load things and change things he began to get frustrated.
Today, about 1 week later, he called me to ask me one simple question about how to load samples from floppy's into the keyboard and told me this was the best keyboard he has ever used.
I rest my case (and your's too!) Maybe the WK and SK's are a well kept secret among just a few of us.
Here's another great one.
Several weeks ago I sold a WK8 to a customers who exchanged it last week for a SK760. The reason he did this was because he thought the WK8 sounded like a "toy" compared to the SK760. Guess what.......They are exactly the same engine and outputs, but, I think that because one has a weighted 76 note keyboard and the other a synth action 61 note keyboard, velocity curves will feel different on each one and so mentally, you think you hear a difference. What do you think? I just smiled and said fine, lets make the trade.
Regard,
George Kaye