As I said epu, i'll take your word for it about the channel 16 info. However, before I got my 5080 I phoned Roland UK, and spoke to a guy there about whether the 5080 had the same problems as the 2080, regarding timing. His words to me were that the timing was better than the 2080 firstly and obviously because the processor is much faster, and secondly that the 5080 has seperate processors for it's MFX. As you say, this is only relevant for the 2080 as it is the only one of the JV/XP series to have 3 EFX.

I have heard it said before that the 2080's timing is the worst JV in the series (that came from someone doing a direct comparison of a 1080 + 2080, however what you say sounds like its true on the whole range, but made worse because of the 3 EFX on the 2080.

Wow, this whole lot is beginning to make sense!!

What I find most disturbing about the whole business is that us lot are discussing a big problem like this here, whilst Roland have not been honest with their customers.

I for one was very reluctant to fork out more wonga to the same company again for the 5080. However, I am here to say that the 5080, from my experience so far is excellent, kicking every other rompler out of it. (with the exeption of the JD990)