Fran,

Great post. It makes me want to purchase a G1000, pull up a chair at your place and take notes. I too was very impressed at NAMM a while back with the Discover - most have given up on that one!

All in all, Roland products just have that 'real' total sound advantage over other models and it's hard for me to steer towards other makes, no matter what the OS might offer.

zuki