I have to agree with everything Asafar said...I don't see any mixed opinions about after-touch and arabic music. I personally have one thing holding me back from buying the Vega which is the fact that it does not have after-touch. There is soooo much you can do with after-touch and the expressivness can be different from one sound to the other. I have a T3 that I use and for accordions my after touch is different than for my saxes and different for my acoustic guitar and so on.

Some keyboards even though they have after-touch they don't have all the options like the KORG or the Kurzweil do.

One thing I may not totally agree with Asafar is on using the Joy stick in the Y direction...even though you can do some expressivness with that its not the same as using the after-touch (at least for me).

Arabic keyboard playing and after-touch go hand in hand as far as I am concerned. Also that goes for the pitch bender...one thing I hate about my X1 is the fact that it has wheels, I can do so much more with the bender.

Ok play on guys.