Woah baby .... none of this new stuff is leaving the house. The PA800 is my road rig for now at least. It's almost summer, and I have NO time to learn a new setup - too many songs to play, clients to meet, girls to watch .... it's a busy season at the Jersey shore!

As for the Nord vs. Roland organ debate - I prefer the Nord. The pianos, clavs, wurlies, and rhodes are top notch, and I like the organ better too. I'd happily sell the VK8, but I won't sell it cheap - it's still a fantastic instrument and I might learn to play double manuals someday, right?
For my money, the Nord is easily twice as good as the VK8 in the organ category...the Leslie especially. It's kind of nice having the two though ...
The Roland has cool looking Ivory keys and drawbars, but the Nord is RED! (blushes) and remembers drawbar positions in presets .... tough choice.


So - after an hour and a half with the BK7m I found a workaround to every objection but one so far. I was able to make it play nice with the Nord and I set up my 2 "go to" performances so I can play either manual or auto bass and switch between the two seemlessly. The SMF player works great - a bit faster than the audio player for right now, but I'm still new at it - maybe there's more to tweak.

The only thing I need to do yet is delete a few performances that got saved in error somehow. That might be a pc issue - not sure yet. I might be able to plug the usb stick into a computer and simply erase the wasted files.... not sure.

So, I can sleep knowing that my beloved Electro now has split bass and layered sounds, along with a brilliant drummer! The patterns are great from what I heard so far ... strong but simple. I got my wish - it's John, Paul, George and Ringo in the band, and not VanHalen, Flea, Blackmore and Pert! I love it for what it's been up to now. More as I fiddle with it.