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Originally posted by Tom NL:
Hi Mike,

Don't forget this is an arranger keyboard (although named Music Workstation) so it cannot be compared with, for instance, the Korg Triton. That's why they make the Fantom X.

Instead of a (noisy, expensive and mechanical) harddisk they fitted a SSD memory of 50 MB and a PCMCIA slot. With that you can use any media device like the Sony Memorystick, Compactflash etc. If you ask me harddisks will phase out soon in musical instruments in favour of flash memory, because the capacity doesn't have to be very large and speed and affordability is very important.



If a keyboard has less features than a Workstation and is an arranger, does that necessarily mean that it should cost more? I think that generally “arrangers” are way overpriced.

Also, with keyboards like Korg PA1X, Gem Genesys and may be the G70, the lines between arrangers and workstations may no longer be there. I think Roland is starting that by calling the G70 a “workstation”. I think they are right to do that because most keyboards today are really multimedia workstations with different features i.e. auto accompaniment and arpeggios.

Just my opinion.

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