Donny
I think you hit on what the Roland engineers were thinking. IPAD use is so prevelant with musicians they kept the cost down and gave you the opprotunity to use you IPAD with the BK9. I've been putting it off but I am going to msske sn effort to link Unreslbook to my Performances.
The two screens give two different sets of info and if they were combined it would be harder to quickly read what you need. The quality is low. The screen on my BK7M was so much better and I don't know why they didn't use that same technology on the BK9.
I've said its a players keyboard but with some of the Classically oriented pieces Rosetree is producing its great for the studio too.