Hey all. I just picked up my new Korg Triton this morning. Before this, I had an xp-60 for most of a month.

I paid 1850.oo US NEW for the 61 key Triton, and could have gotten a Tirton Pro for 2200. US.

Let me tell you, they do not even compare sonically.

The roland does indeed have a nice piano, but the rest of the Roland really stinks compared to the Triton. The sounds on the Triton are just so much more useable.
And dont forget, you can always SAMPLE your favorite piano on the Korg. Its just a vastly superior machine.

Heres an example on the strings. The xp-60 strings(same as all the other xp's and 1080 amd 2080) tend to melt together, and be a bit sluggish. On the Triton's strings, you can hear the bow cutting against the strings of the instrument. The strings on the Triton cut and bite and dive, which is how strings should be . I hate synth saxes, but the Tritons is the best I have ever heard. Onboard drums? Absolutely no comparison. As for the rock organs, Korg wins out as well. The xp/Jv has a really nice pipe organ, but thats the only one that beats the Korg organs.

The effects are not even close. NOt to mention I can upgrade my Triton with the MOSS physical analogue modelling synth card, and have one of the hottest synths out there, possibly the best digital synth programming outside of the kurzweil VAST system.


The xp-60 sounded dated and cheesy to me as well. Alot of the sounds were pretty useless, and alot of the sounds seemed like they should belong on a 500$ casio keyboard.

Dont forget, even if and when the Triton is superceeded, it's sampler makes it very up to date. It will never die.

It is, IMHO, the greatest synth I have yet tried(so far).


The thing with Roland is that they are still utilizing old technology from the 80's.
My old roland d-10 sounds very much like the xp-60 I had. In my opinion, the Roland d-10 I had was a better sounding synth than the 60, and it did not have a decay grunge issue.

I can upgrade my sample ram to 64, pop in some sound boards, add on a SSCi drive for a hard drive or zip drive, I can route a voice (or any other instrument) through the incredible effects section, I can use the built in vocoder, and I can pop in the MOSS card.

This machine is a beast. After having the xp-60 and taking it back just recently, and now having this Triton in my room, I can honestly say this is the better machine by a LONG shot.


My only complaints so far are that the keys are a bit noisy and rumbly.

I love my new Triton!