Hmm.

The reason I've never really embraced a PC sequencing package is that I *love* certain voices that are available on the keyboard but that are beyond the scope of General Midi (which is all the EZ-30 can offer).

To retain EXACTLY the sounds I want I have so far had to acquire them as wavs and then manipulate them in Cool Edit Pro 2.

This is awkward for me, as a non-musician, because it means I lose the raw MIDI information - which is the only route I have back to re-creating and re-using an appealing melodic phrase that I have accidentally shaped and would have liked to have tried with a variety of voices.

I was hoping that there would be a keyboard that would allow me to use its high quality voices with free cut and pasting available so that I could rearrange AND save my efforts to disk.

The EZ-30 only permits you to have one live performance run at each track. You can't go back and alter anything, re-record a segment or create a song in stages and your storage is limited by the Flash ROM.

I've made lots of 30 second to 1 minute pieces that I like and that I would want to develop but I've been too hemmed in.

I hoped with a better machine I could build pieces up bit by bit - a few seconds at a time.

Would this be off-puttingly hard to achieve with a Yamaha PSR 2100 or Technics KN2600 ? I've read that Korg have the best on board sequencing.

Is it true that the PSR 2100 has 16 tracks available for sequencing but that you can only put certain types of instruments in certain of these numbered slots meaning that you couldn't have 16 drum kits or 16 woodwinds - or are you free to select ANY voice ?