I've had a few days to get aquatinted with the 7k and here are my main concerns:

1) I need to have more instruments sustain like a piano does. It's not fair of Technics to decide which instruments the pedal affects. I needs to layer strings and piano, and the highest sustain setting (8) doesn't match up between piano and strings. Am I missing another parameter somewhere?

2) Can you scroll through song titles during playback? (midi or audio) So far, I can't seem to do this. If a song file is playing ..... you can't search for a new song till it stops. (very cumbersome)

3) What did I read about Panel memory staying for about a week only? Did I misread that? Will I have to load up my panel memory every time I turn the kb on? Hmmmm.....

4) The SD card reader is SO complicated and time consuming to set up. Whew...... I was at my wits end, and my PC crashed every time I tried to do a USB hookup between kb and laptop. I loaded the software and drivers first, like the book says, but no luck so far. The specs SHOULD support this unit but I can't make it work yet. I have a PIII 600Mhz Gateway that has been FLAWLESS with audio and midi till now. I'm puzzled.

*** I have 3 nights of work ahead of me starting tomorrow night, so I'll plow through the OS again on the job. I'll check back in and see if anything has changed with experience. Wish me luck .... so far, I'm not too optimistic about my queries. I think this machine may just have a few drawbacks that I didn't count on. That string sustain is the biggest problem (after the drum sounds) for me. I need to have smooth string pads under my piano, and they NEED to sustain the same rate and duration as the piano chords do.

What to do ... what to do .......

[This message has been edited by Uncle Dave (edited 01-07-2004).]