Thanks George, and I hope that I am wrong about my conclusions...I have not bought an arranger in a while now, but the last one I bought before the X1, was the GEM WK2. Sound quality wise I admit the X1 is wayyyy better, but as far as ease of use (which is what everyone praised the X1 about...), that I am not sure I can agree with. More specifically, it did not wait till next measure to change styles unless you hit the fill in key, then it would finish the fill in before taking you to the next style, which is the best of both worlds under my control.

I hope AJ can help me out on this issue.

George, what about the flash card issue? Did you ask Ketron about this? Before I was not too concerned because I only had that one oriental kit and I did not mind using it from the HD. But now, I have to use it from the CARD because I am using the other "kit" I have in RAM (obviously I cannot load both into RAM), so its important that my flash card does not give those noises. I will try pushing the card a bit harder in as per what AJ suggested...