Yep, that's it Terry. In a nutshell. I'm gravitating more toward option 2 I guess. The problem for me with option 1 is that I'd never really get out of a board what is "under the hood" if I have to trade it in every few months to get the next hot thing.

I think if I were going to replace something hardware here though, it would be the ES, possibly with the Fantom X. That would be better value on the dollar for me than trading my rather depreciated PA80 to get a PA1x or Tyros at this stage of the game, especially since I'm not all that interested in using an arranger here in the studio any more. The PA80 will still do a creditable job in a live setting for me, and that's my primary need in an arranger.

AJ