...which I value. In fact, 'though I should be depressed, I'm actually kinda happy (in a perverse way) to hear someone (whose opinion I value) confirm (affirm?) my feeling about it. I gotta go check the receipt date. If I do take it back, I'll probably not be able to walk back out of the store with nothing, so I now have to think of some kind of replacement. Maybe I should just hold onto the cash and hold out for a new Audya, or maybe wait for Dom to collect all the parts and freeze the OS on the Mediastation .

Here's what I've been thinking. Get a more modern, up-to-date, full-featured 61key (don't faint, remember I already have the A70) controller (there's even one that comes in RED) and use that to drive both the SonicCell and softsynths. Why 61? To possibly sit atop the C1 and drive the SonicCell at a gig. I tried using the lower manual of the C1 for this but frankly, although it will work (after a fashion) it makes a lousy controller.

Anyhow, if I take it back, this will reinstate the SonicCell as my 'Roland' soundsource. I probably would have been better off with one of those new GW8's. Ahhh, so many choices, so little cash.

chas