Dear MC,

I have the G1000 and Iīve had the opportunity to try out VA-7 and VA-76.

In my opinion the sounds in the VA-series are clearly - but not very much - better. Even many of the new instruments sounds pretty much the same as the G1000. But there are some that are better. Piano, some of the drumkits, an organ here, an electric piano there, a couple of stringsounds etc.

I also like some of the new controllingpossibilities, like ribbon- and beamcontr. Itīs also easier to choose from various soloinstruments during the same performance.

For the same money I would choose VA-76 as nr 1, G1000 nr 2, VA-7 nr 3 and finally EM2000. This is because I very much prefer/dely on 76 keys and I donīt need internal speakers.

This indicates that for me the sonic advantadges of VA-7 isnīt so grate that I would give up the 76 keys in G1000 even for the same money!

Iīve considered to change my G1000 to the VA-76, but like you put it I would just throwing my money away on a "little better" Roland.

Michael