I'd certainly admit we've got more interest in the G70 going since the Bitchslap-fest got started. The Tyros2 already had a lot of posts (to the point that SOME members here thought it was the Yamaha Forum!) and interest, but the first posts about the G70 about a year ago were greeted pretty hostilely, or very negative (due to Roland rushing it out before it was properly voiced).

Since then, things have improved in G70-land, with many bugfixes and new and improved features, a whole new Guitar Mode (nothing as significant added to the Tyros2 for free since it came out!), and considerable improvement (especially for European users) in the availability of high quality 3rd-party styles.

But, if you didn't know all this, you would have never guessed it from the tenor of posts here at SZ...... A fine European (in English) forum started up for G70 users, a model of what can be achieved by cooperation between users and manufacturers (some features were added or changed after only one user requested it!), and few G70 users bothered with this place for quite a while, so the whole level of awareness disappeared.

Lately, there's been a resurgence of interest and a concomitant upsurge of bad opinions (some people just don't want to admit that for other players, THEIR opinion could be invalid), but I guess it's like they say........ There's no such thing as BAD publicity!

Anything that gets players to make the (often long) journey to the Roland CK dealer to actually try one for themselves can't be all bad, but it has been leaving a bad taste in my mouth reading some of the potty-posts here!

Like I said...... the more Roland sell, the more likely I will get more OS updates and new styles!!