HI Santantoni

You have just made the better choice of the two. The Technics instruments are more "User Friendly" than the Roland, even now. At the moment I have the KN7 which is a really great keyboard and I love it.

However, in my opinion the KN5000 has the better patterns and rhythms. They seem to be a much 'warmer' sound and I still use my backups quite regularly.

I've had Technics instruments for several years now but on one occasion I bought the Roland E86 (top of the range at the time) but it was so complicated to set up. Almost everything I did had to go through the Menu. This was so time consuming, I eventually lost interest in playing it so after a few months I traded it in for a Technics KN650 which has been progressively replaced to my latest KN7, but the KN5000 is still very much a favourite of mine.

Enjoy your Keyboard, you definitely made a good choice.

Audrey

[This message has been edited by Audrey Turner (edited 02-25-2007).]