In fairness, I’ve never given much time of the day to other people’s opinions about keyboards. It either blows MY skirt up or it doesn’t..!

But then again, I’ve never made a keyboard purchase without extensive research and hands-on time. Well, apart from my current BK-9, which I bought sight unseen. But as a direct successor to my G70, I knew the bones were good, even if the skin had changed (getting used to no touchscreen took a while!).

I honestly think, unless you are a hardware junkie or need an analog type synth for live gigging, software synths offer amazingly close to analog sounds at a fraction of the price. For the same price of an analog Prophet 5 or a few Eurorack modules, you can load your computer with almost every high end software synth there is! Plus that huge (depending on your monitor) display area certainly makes understanding and controlling the signal path much easier to visualize.

There’s a reason we moved away from Polymoog’s and OB-Xa’s. If the current generation of kids wants to find out why for themselves, who are we to tell them?! 😂