Gary, your writing is always vivid and easy to read :-)

TedS, if we all played music same way, we would produce same music :-) but everyone has his own approach and yours is rather sophisticated (programming scares me). 

My SX900 is in a service now, 30 miles away from me, they say they fixed the noise, I'm not very optimistic, but hope to get it back soon. 4 days without it made me realize that I actually needed it. Recently I tried a jazz style, just drums, and it sounded so realistic... And DX pianos; never really enjoyed them on previous keyboards, but now they are my favorite. There are a lot of essential improvements about how is sounds in general: strings, organs, guitars...

In the same time, it's not quite the same as being inspired. I composed most of my songs on PSR-3000, less on S950, and even less on SX900.

On one hand, I would like to have Genos in my room, maybe that would be productive. On the other hand, I understand that inspiration might come not because of new equipment, but because of events in our lives, people we meet, or when we are welcome with our music in some place. And a $5000 bulky keyboard in not exactly the best companion when it comes to playing in public, especially in places where people hardly make $500 in a month, but that's a different story.