Hi, the 6/6500 custom works exactly as a preset would, with and without Musical Style Arranger functions, automatic fill up/down to variation, full music database programability with individual descriptions, music stylist scrolling etc.

The 6000 menus and functions are pretty advanced compared to the 5000, and there is a great deal in there you could not do before.

I see what you mean about the chord recognition.

I would still like a usb connection, with 44.1 kHz output like my Edirol UA gear. Perfect recordings with no analogue anywhere near the laptop. And it could double as a hard disk backup path.

But you would lose some of the (expensive) SX functions. The auto Alpha sort is indispensible with thousands of files...
Alec

[This message has been edited by technicsplayer (edited 02-06-2002).]