G70

Favorite features (mostly in order)

The style and SMF editing tools (Makeup Tools). By FAR the easiest, most comprehensive set of tools for tweaking styles and sequences. Ability to offset velocity amount as well as volume. Detail drum editing, drum replacement, EQ, velocity and volume per sound, all in an easy to use graphical, touchscreen environment. Not a substitute for full sequencer, but simply a way to edit header information that 80% of the time is all the tweaking a style or sequence needs...

A comfortable 76 keyboard action. Sufficient weight to not feel disconnected from piano performance, not too heavy to make organ performance a chore, either. Full length keys (especially the black ones), but rounded off whites rather than sharp piano shape ones... makes for comfortable organ smears and glisses.

Easy to navigate registration callup, with full recall of all parameters.

Seamless sound changing, no glitches or hiccups. Sounds morph into each other without cutting off the previous one.

Cover Tools... instant one button complete revoicing of a style or SMF in a myriad of different templates. A superb way to get more mileage out of oft used or stale styles. Once 'close', Makeup Tools can be used to fine tune. Handy for when you want to do a rock style in front of a subdued crowd. Simply select the Acoustic Jazz template, and those pounding drums and rock guitars turn into brushes, jazz guitars and upright basses, on the spot!

Easy, quick slider navigation to ANY performance parameter, Vol, Pan, Rev, Chr, voice edits, etc. And as easy to navigate to all SMF or style controls, too.

Detailed, multi-velocity V-Drum kits with a certain tight ambiance sampled into them. Four samples per drum on some sounds, at least two on most. Velocity offset for the style based on how hard you play. Tied to multi sample drums, gives a VERY good sense of the drummer following your playing...

Good quality Pianostyle chord following ability. Play close to what a pianist would play, the accompaniment has little trouble figuring out what to play...

This is my almost ONLY live keyboard, for everything from solo work to playing without ANY automatic features in a live band. As a pure arranger, it lacks some things that others have. But as a live performance keyboard for ANY situation, it has few equals... Amazingly fast navigation to everything you need to create a setup with splits and layers, and all possible without setting things up in advance. Beats the pants off of ANY WS I've ever used!