If this is it, then Roland is missing the boat for the second time. The touch screen is a useful tool IN ADDITION to the multitude of buttons, such as G1000, not instead of them. For home keyboaridsts this may be fine, as there is usually no great pressure to quickly change settings, but for a live performer, having a hundred people stomping on the dance floor it is totally impractical having to wait for the screen to redraw.

G1000 needs a bigger screen and MORE buttons, so that sound banks are not multiplexed, and group/individual selections are done by separate sets of buttons; it should have programmable one-touch setting for EACH style, not just preset ones. It also needs a vocal harmonizer, and fully programmable super tone banks. Also, a real hard disk, or at least a memory card (like technics) instead of floppy, and full speed USB (preferrably 2.0), which should allow multi-channel digital audio to be sent directly to the computer without the need of audio interface.

In KF7, Roland is sticking to its stupid idea that auto-accompaniment is for home keyboard users, so it is building instruments which are not suitable for live performances.

Regards,
Alex