I've pretty much decided to join AJ both in keeping my Pa80 (I like being able to tweak/replace everything, including the factory styles) and get a MoES6 for better acoustic and analog sounds and then fill it up with the full 1 gig of sample ram. If need be, I can start it loading up and then go have breakfast so that when I come back and am ready to start work, it will be all loaded up and ready to go too. I plan to get the VL and 2 AN expansion cards and also get a BC3 to use with it. After that, I too will start to explore softsynths whenever I feel the need to "do more". However, it will take me a while to get the MoES6 under my belt, so the softsynth part is still a ways away. The great workable options in today's music world are truely mind blowing.

Tom

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