I still use my G70 daily, as a hobbyist / passionate arranger keyboard player.

From a tactile feeling and overall ease of use and navigation, nothing beats it! It is still one of my all time favourite keyboards after owning over 30 different keyboards in the last 25 years.

However, the Love / hate is strong... One of the biggest draw backs for me is the fact that you cannot make any of the style parts fixed to prevent them from changing chord progressions. This is a big thing as some songs may have certain instrument tracks that do not change key while other instruments will within a certain chord progression (while still all sounding musically in key)...

The Other issue is while in style play, the bass note cant go below a certain note on the keyboard. it will only stay within a certain note range on the keyboard. - this too wasn't rectified on the BK9.

Every other arranger I have ever played and owned could do the above... every Yamaha back to the PSR 1000 could do it, all the KORG PA keyboards, even my technics kn6000 does it all.

But for me - the overall build quality, the keys, the layout, the sounds and the functionality is what has made the G70 shine and outlast everything else that has come and gone. I cant see myself ever parting ways with it, it is THAT GOOD! - if you know you know ;-)