Roel,

You would like to get the same flexibility and price versus quality in an arranger keyboard as you get in a PC. But there are a billion PC's in the world that all use the same hardware components and software. How do you expect the makers of the Ketron SD1 or any keyboard to compete with that. They will have to make the same costs for research and development for there hardware and software and devide that over the much smaller number of customers. They will never be able to compete unless they build an arranger keyboard that IS a PC.

You want a new Dream/Almatel soundchip? Just plug in a standard soundcard. That's how it goes in the PC world and that's how it soon will be in the arranger keyboard world too.

Jos