In addition to these Roland products, you should seriously consider the Virus by Access (I own the tabletop model and love it, but I believe the keyboard version has more polyphony) and the new Novation digital synth (the name of which escapes me at the moment). I think for the types of music you're doing, these will do the job better and both have more polyphony and, if I'm not mistaken, more options in the multitimbral mode than the 8080. Also, they're just way cooler machines. I don't mean to dis the 8080, its a solid instrument, but for about the same $$ you can give yourself alot more creative power and, in my opinion, better sounds. The 1080 can do a decent job at just about anything but, jeez, if you can't twiddle knobs, you're missing out on most of the fun. I've only read about the 1010, but it seems like given its very limited editing possibilities, it wouldn't work very well for you. But I should disclose that I'm not a techno guy so hopefully someone with more experience in that genre will weigh in for you.