[QUOTE]Originally posted by BlkNotes:
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Those that had a Va-7/76 state that there is not very much improvement to the G-70, which would be shocking from a consumer stand point. Who would spend the extra money for a small change. This also doesn't speak very highly of roland if ~3-5 years has passed since the VA-7/76 has been released and they haven't been able to make great strides in the yop model arranger/workstation market even with all the advances in technology that have come about in that time period.

So, I'm wondering if anyone has anymore insight into this?

Some details about additional G-70 feature compared to VA 7/VA 76
(instead of comment):

Vocal Harmonist
Harmonic Bars (Virtual Tone Wheel)
Lots of new very good sounds
SRX Expansion board slot
More buttons provide very easy of operation
9 ssignable sliders
Coloured touch sreen
50 MB internal memory
PCMCIA slot
USB connection (works very good)
V-LInk integrates optical effects using VCR
7 independent effect sections
Stereophonic line input with separate effect section and volume control knob
6 realtime parts with upper3 split
Extended One Touch Settings
Midi File Score/Chord/Lyrics
Song Micro Edit
Mark/Jump functions
Play songs from second bar (uninterrupted)
Vidio output
New style structure
Adaptive Chord Voicing (avoids jumping awkward intervals playing with styles)
~ 180 new styles
Cover function and Makeup tools for songs and styles
Mastering section (compressor and equalizer)
Extended D-Beam functions
User Program Finder
Real time drum modification
Numeric pad

Regards Hanspeter

Hanspeter,
what is "Real time drum modification"?

And you should wright absent features list, beginning with style morphing...

Christian_1,
piano sound is very good and the same as in demo. Yes, I own G70.

Ailev,
'Real time drum instrument modification' means the functions SOUND EDIT DRUM SETS and
DRUM INSTR EDIT during a song or style is running.
I know, you'r missing STYLE MORPHING, we discussed it a few weeks ago. Another important
thing is VARY PHRASE. Roland people said, there are no many customer using these
functions?! Additional I miss the possibility selecting the voice for MELODY INTELLIGENCE
instument in some cases. I complained about that to Roland development. Till now I got
no respond.What shell we do?
Regards Hanspeter