Okay, I'll give Roland some credit. One thing I love about there company is that almost everything they made over the past ten years is back compatible. This is great for people just coming on the Roland scene, or someone who has been with the Roland scene for a while and doesn't feel like having to re-program his/her whole archive because of a new sound set.

The only reason I dismiss the new XVs is because all of the new sounds on there have not debuted in the new XV but in Roland's 1998 SC880. If you listen to the tones on the SC880, you'll see that almost 75% of all the new sounds on the XV came from the JV and SC880. My thing was I didn't need another "copy cat" module. I love Roland. Everything in my studio is by Roland. But i have an XP60 and an SC880.

The fact that many of the sounds on the stock XV came from the SC, didn't make me impressed as I have the XV right inside of my SC and paid about $1800 less than the XV is advertised ($350). Trust me on that one.

The Infamous EPU.