most of us are musicians, or want to be anyway, and not programmers. Like Roel and others stated so well the ratio between "Playing" and "Programming" is utterly absurd. I sat behind my friend's G-70 a couple of times and I got completely fed up with it. I am not saying it has no good sounds or styles, though nothing spectacular even there imo. But like I mentioned on earlier occasions I think ALL the Roland presets and defaults sound absolutely crap. Which means an incredibly amount of programming to be done. My friend, and many others I am sure , are leaning back, confident that others (globally) will make the effort, but in my experience, and I did very extensive programming of "performances/user programs"for both the Roland G800/G1000 and the Korg PA-80, very few get down to really programming in this respect. In other words, most of you will have to do your own, and the G-70 will give you more than ample opportunity, too much in my opinion.
I also agree with someone saying that the sliders and screen are way too small in comparison to the whole keyboard.
I am sure most VA and Roland diehards will be glad to have a follow-up to their now obsolete keyboard, but I am convinced that Roland will lure away very few keyboard players using other brands and in my opinion righly so. I don't like it, that's for sure.


[This message has been edited by john smies (edited 01-16-2005).]