I recently got a KN7000. Can you believe my mom bought it for me for helping her out over the years - now to put things in perspective I am 51 years old and my mom is 82. What a nice mom wouldn't you say, I am sure a few of you would like to be adopted :-) This is quite a step up from the KN1400 I have used over the past year. I am originally an accordion player since age 10 that got a MIDI kit and then a first Technics keyboard as a sound generation module and fell in love with the versatility of the machine.

I know it is a first effort by Panasonic but the application software for the PC was a bit of an underwhelming experience for me. The sound recorder seems to add pops and static much like playing a vinyl record most of us remember still. Has anyone else experienced this? The PC runs XP on a 1.7 Ghz machine with 768 MByte RAM size so resources should not be a problem. I am a Java server software developer by day so a decent sized machine is required to get the work done.

Thanks

Ron