vic83:

True, the Motif can expand it's polyphony, but if I have got it correct these extra notes are not "universal", they are part of the expansions. This means that the PCM-part of the synth always has 62 notes, but you can add FM, vrtual analog etc. This is of course useful, but not as useful as pure polyhony..

And when it comes to Korg, my opinion is as follows: NEVER, and I mean NEVER believe it when a manufacturer says that "in a near future the OS of the synth will be upgraded to do this, and the expansions will be able to do that.." Sometimes they do what they promise, but sometimes they don't. Buy synths for what they are today. Remember Yamaha EX5.. Yamaha built a monster-synth, and when the users started complaining about problems, Yamaha answered that it would be addressed in OS-upgrades etc. Suddenly one day the whole EX-series was removed from the product range, along with the support for these models..

What I am saying is that it is great for a synth to have the possibility of expansion, but remember that it is very likely that for example the Korg Triton AND the MOSS-expansion is out of production in 3-4 years..

Feefer:
Kurzweil did have effects that you could expand on their K2500. The problem is that for each such smart little function on a synth, it gets more expensive. And suddenly you are in Kurzweil-land, whose synths have all the gadgets ever made... And then they start making synths that cost more than my car... I hope Roland also in the future continue to make synths I can afford.

Still just my opinion.

Stig