After two weeks selling the Va7's here is what I am hearing from my customers. "Love the sounds", "the drums are amazing", and the user interface is so much easier than the G1000/EM2000. Also, the direct songplay and style play functions have been made evern easier than on the G and EM models.
If I have one complaint, it is wishing there were more dedicated buttons and less touch screen soft buttons. I am getting used to it though, and at times, I even like it better. I think that anyone who uses it will get used to the fact that some of the functions just take a couple of seconds longer to access because sometimes there are combinations of buttons and touch screen functions. Probably the one I wish I had been able to tell the Engineers to add would be a dedicated UP1 on and UP2 on button. Having to push "other" then the upper 2 soft touch button takes a little getting used to. But, I really like the 48 MB of sample Rom inside this keyboard and I love hearing the acoustic piano, Trumpet and Acoustic guitar sounds. There really shine!
If your asking me how I would compare this now that I've played it to the X1, it's hard for me to judge these. They are still very different. Where the X1 excels is in it's quality of styles and it's easy to use interface. The VA7 has great sounds and a great clean and fresh look, but (and there is nothing wrong with this) still reminds me of a newly packaged EM2000. Of course 128 note polyphony, 48 MB of sounds, can't be overlooked, and variphrase as others have mentioned, used wisely, sounds fantastic, but these are still two very different keyboards, and that's what's great. Choices, choices and more choices. It's a wonderful world!
George Kaye