In my case it depends on what I'm doing. My own music includes some synth oriented progressive rock, along with jazz fusion and experimental stuff, so I use much more than 20 voices, and demand that they be fully editable. The PA80 allows me a lot of editing power, but it lacks the sliders and real time controls I need on those occasions when I want to be able to modify a sound in real time. In those cases, I go to the Motif. Quality of the voices hasn't been a big issue for me in any of my more recent boards. They've pretty much all been acceptable. Ability to edit synth type voices has been the bigger issue for me. When a real quality acoustic voice is needed and none of my boards can cut it, I go to my sample based software anyway. Then there is also a lot of tweaking involved including using physical modeling tools. The good news is that I really enjoy the tweaking aspect anyway.

On the other hand, for live play, I doubt I ever use 20. The priority shifts a bit from complicated programming to focusing on my playing and entertaining skills.

AJ



[This message has been edited by Bluezplayer (edited 10-01-2002).]