I must agree that I like the sounds of Roland XP30 a lot. It is the champion of its class - under a grand and with tons of good sounds. However, I really do not think that Roland should cut corners on its joystick. The joysticks on XP60 and XP80 are so much better. The ones on cheaper models like XP30, JX305 etc. come with a joystick with very little Y-axis movements - it already confuses some of the XP/JV forum participants that modulation (Y-axis movement of joystick) does not work. Actually I like Korg's joysticks better than Roland's - they are better quality and smoother in operations. However, I like Roland JV sounds much better especially those patches from the additional sound boards.

Paul Ip