Hi JV/XP/XV-people,

I'm Hans from Belgium. I own an XV-88 and an MC-80 sequencer for a month now. I used to have an RD-600 and an E-96 keyboard before. I got rid of them because I needed more sounds and I never really used the music styles in the E-96. With the MC-80 and the XV-88 I can make my own music from the bottom.
I thought the keyboard touch/feeling of the RD-600 was very good, but the XV-88's is better. I liked the RD-600's pianos more though. With the XV-sounds I've got everything I need. Although in some sounds (including the XV piano patches) you can hear some irritating noise at certain velocities, but I hope the piano sounds on the new SRX-03 "Studio" Expansion board will be better...
Yeah, you heard it right: Roland announced a new member of the SRX-family at Frankfurter Musikmesse, probably the equivalent of the SR-JV80 Series "Session" board. There's also a new RD-700 coming up with two SRX-Series expansion slots. I searched the Internet about all this but I only could find information in Dutch/French on the Roland Benelux website at http://www.roland.be/ff2001.html. Check it out!

Best regards,

Hans