I want to thank Fran and Diki for their "same but different" remarks. I think this time the two perspectives have really given us a good picture of Roland's two "arranger" style keyboards. I think Fran has convinced me to focus on the Prelude and Diki has convinced me that Roland needs some better design direction in their keyboard dept. By all means, these two keyboards should be identical with the exception of speakers (and maybe color), which could raise the price of the Prelude somewhat over the GW-8. Thanks guys.

I don't want to stop the conversation, so if anyone has more to say, keep it coming.