i have tried to avoid posting to this thread, but its like the hole in the wall with the sign "dont look in here" ........anyhoo, i dont understand why there is so much confusion about this G-70, when Roland are just following their standard operating procedure, which is to take an existing framework, add a few things, re-model the casing and then flog it off as the "next big thing", they've done it with synths and arrangers since the eighties so why should this be any different, and really, the G-70 IS just a VA 76 with a few (slightly) different knobs, a few more EFX on the sounds, and i really think they didnt even bother with the styles, just relied on the tweaked sounds to carry them (the styles)..for an example just check out the base samples used for the sounds on the G-70 and then on the VA-76, you will find they are both essentially the same as the old original fantom series, which btw appear (gee thats a strange co-incidence) on the fantom X series as well, albiet with more, and more variation ....it is a well known industry fact that the VA-76 was a dog and did not sell anywhere near the units the bean counters at roland had figured, so the result of this was the G-70 so they could re-coup some of that with the smallest amount of new capital. imho, GOMO

dennis

peace, out

[This message has been edited by manic2257 (edited 06-17-2005).]