Much like the PA80, I almost never ( noticeably at least ) ran the MZ out of notes with it's 64 note poly. OTOH, I ran my PSR's and my original Motif out of notes consistently with Yamaha's 64 notes of Poly.

The MZ is truly one of the only boards I've ever had that I really regret not holding on to. I enjoyed it more ( if for nothing else than it's actual synth type sounds ) than any other hardware sample based synth I have ever played. OTOH, I can see why someone who does what Gary primarily does would prefer the PSR3000. For bread and butter performance sounds and styles right out of the box, I might too. My priorities are different right now though, and to me the most important sounds are the synth types and the organs. For me, no PSR can compete with the MZ and the abilty to edit and mangle sounds on the fly. Sadly, not even my Motif ES can.

The only other board I can truly say I miss is my Polysix. It surely wasn't the greatest analog synth on earth, ( kind of primitive in the filter and sound generation areas actually ) nor was it close to being the best analog I've ever played on, but it was my first, it was about as simple to navigate with and program as any analog could ever be, and it was a lot of bang for the buck. OTOH, the software version is so close that it easily replaces it, and for sonic quality even the freeware Synth 1 and Superwave P8 softsynths go way deeper with fatter and more interesting sounds.

AJ



[This message has been edited by Bluezplayer (edited 01-10-2006).]