hi Adnan.....

go to the egroup and you will find all the answer there
but you need to read ....
not much information
but thats it for now....
http://www.egroups.com/group/va-7

i will answer for your question:

1.The VA-7 is FULLY compatible with all the
old model e,g em and all g1000 specifications are include plus a lot lot more !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2. about the dsp the rotray effect
and all other efects realy improved
so... now the 89 dspefects are great!!!

3.you can store 48(up to 16mb in rom)phrases
and 16 sampling phrases (up to 8mb)
i realy dont know if you can expand it...
I HOPE !!!!!!!!!!
THE VP9000 IS EXPANDBLE UP TO 128 MB
THATS GIVE HIM 7 MIN 5SEC
SAMPLING TIME ....
BUT TO UNDERSTAND VARIPHRASE
OR THE GREAT POWER OR REVULUTION
IT IT THATS YOU DONT NEED M,UCH MEMORY LIKE YOU USE TO LIKE OTHER SAMPLER !!!!!!!!!
YOU CAN CONTROL ANY SAMPLE VERY VERY ALASTIC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
16 VARIPHRASE STORED IN MEMORY EVEN YOU TURN OFF YOUR KEYBOARD
LOOPING IS SUPORTED

THE VARIPHRASE IS REALY REVOLUTION
LIKE THE MIDI REVOLUTION WAS !!!!!!!!
http://www.rolandus.com/../USERS/RUG/Winter_00/UT-variphrase.html

4. THE VA-7 harmonize singing interactive

5.styles fully customizable (Style Edit)you Can use all the styles from G-1000 and others
the real time arranger like the g-1000

6."Reset/TapTempo" function exsist Acc and Rit supported

7.the price of the va-7 in germany:
1980$ witout german tax !!!!
http://www.musicians-gear.com/prices.htm

8. finaly :

it wil NOT be g-1000 continued
roland not intend to relse any new keyboard
76 weighted keys !!!!!!!
(it wont be any g1200 ....)

about va-17 i dont know ....
you know every 2 years we all
wishing for beter
keyboard and it realy great
like the computer world !!!!!!!!!!!!

b.t.w the speakers are realy good
not like you use to in the past
A powerful Bass-Reflex speaker system rounds out the impressive feature list.


there a lot more .....
but you have to wait every one get his

VA-7 ....

REALY AMZING KEYBOARD !!!!!!!!!!!

EYAL GULI
http://www.egroup.com/group/va-7


[This message has been edited by eyal (edited 05-23-2000).]