I hate multi-page threads so am carring on here...

Ok now, I'm in question overload and have to sleep sometimes...

The following has to be GUESSES since NO DETAILED INFORMATION on these points has been mentioned so far:

The comments on 'drag and drop' are based on my experiences with my USB camera, MP3 player, Hard drive, Handheld etc. It would be a fair assumption that if the KN7000 has a USB 'identity' it will be no different in this respect.

As I described a CD with software suit will be supplied for beginners which will enable them to use all the features. We may not need any of the software suite if already used to pc file manipulation and digital recording etc. But newcomers or people with a new pc will have what they need.

Like my camera and MP3 player folders must be available, surely, to organise work on the SD cards. If features from the Keysoft software are also included it would be a great addition. I don't know yet.

No details available on harmoniser, no of rights and lefts, etc etc.

I did talk to EMC while I was there and style conversion is certainly available on the KN7000 and if we are lucky it will be the new extra cost disk which includes Yamaha and Wersi? but included as standard.

I've just discovered a reason for keeping the floppy drive... style conversion! I wonder if the software can be loaded in a corner of the flash card to be quickly availble at any time...? that would be cool.

Sound quality... I said people were questioning whether a CD was playing when the 7000 was being played live. If that does not tell you anything...?

I have said before I hate giving opinions on sound quality. It is all personal, and my opinion is worthless to you. I may like a Steinway. You say no Yamaha Grand is better, who is right... no-one. It is as pointless as arguments about 'my keyboard is the best in the world'. You either like the sound and which buttons you have to push, or you don't.

After many shows and exhibitions I have learnt you cannot tell anything until the machine is in front of you, preferably by the side of the other machine you are interested in, in the quiet surroundings you are used to.

I cannot make a decision based on speakers and headphones I am unfamiliar with, because when I get it home I will find things I did not hear before, and I may not like them.

The demo was very impressive, and sounded like a master tape. I attended several and Phil Leader, who was playing, would deliberately add different trills and riffs every time to prove that the sounds were live.

The very fact that it sounded like a master tape leads me to believe that there should be enough DSP and EQ internally to achieve this with the sounds. Presumably the female vocalist (a great track by Sara Raybould) had some reverb? added on the digital recorder to her track, and then that wave file was put on the SD card, and mixed in with the keyboard output. I am guessing here, but the final result was very good.

I generally do not like the sound of many PA speakers, too much colouration for my ears. These were particularly clean at high levels with clear high frequencies (easy to judge with a female vocalist track).

I know that some of you may be chewing the chair legs for all the info you can get... but I must disappoint for the moment and say I am waiting to hear the inbuilt speaker system in a comfortable way, preferably with my 6500, and through my usual monitors, before I can say how different.