Hello,

Maybe a few of you have been searching around for up to date info on the ongoing NAMM Summer Session event and there's a new player in the field, the Korg Triton Rack.

This triton rack wants to compete DIRECTLY to Roland's flagship. I'm gonna be rasional here, It outnumbers the poor little 5080ie with a few things like:

- 5 insert effects per part in sequence mode. (translated to Rolandish: performance mode).

- REAL sampling (yet you can only insert 96 mb of ram=3x32mb EDO/FP).

- The thing that hit me as being obvious from Korg is the 8x expandability. They also have expansionboards as well as Roland. They really want to adopt the idea of having a rack mount module to compliment your studio with a future proof design. You have 5 now, (they look a bit like a regular 72 pin simm).

Now: the digital outputs are OPTIONAL, but standard on the XV-5080. (well you could start discussing the advantages and disadvantages of having aes/ebu but these are optional on both XV-5080 and Tritonrack)..

Another obvious difference is the sound. I have a triton keyboard so you arn't going to hear me say bad things about how it enables the user to create pristine, effective and powerful pillows of synthesiser warmth, while the drumkits are really cool.

The xv series would perfectly compliment the triton HI sounds with its lush, atmospheric, warm and no doubt....Rolandish sound.

But now you could also say "I'll compliment my XV-88 with a triton rack so that's no problem...

Yet what I'm interested in (and wich is the point of this message) is: If you didn't have a sampler, and a keyboard with the dynamics of the XV series, ....let's say only a midi controller.. Would you go for a triton rack or an XV-5080?.

Hey, it's just that I want to summon your skilled buying tactics because for me it would kinda make me wonder if the tr-rack would have been there when I bought my normal triton.