One sure thing its a break from discussing Yamaha for a change.
Although I use a Yammy keyboard at present it will be a bonus for me not to give Yamaha my money again.
I recently had a friends VA76 for 2 weeks on loan whilst he was on holiday. The board and build quality were excellent.
The Roland demonstrator told me in the new arranger was sometime this year. He stated in April that they wanted to sit on it until they were fully happy with it. They did not want to launch it and then buyers finding bugs...they wanted it right from day 1. Its a pity other manufacturers don't have the same morels.

Graham UK.

Yamaha can't sit on a keyboard...it would break..especially those cheesy keys and buttons..

Yeah well if Roland releases a bug-free keyboard they'll be the first in history to do so.

I agree that it's nice to change the topic from Yamaha, who seems determined not to build a new 76-note arranger (by the time they do the market will be saturated with them, so sales will be poor and they'll say "see, we knew there wasn't a market for pro/76 arrangers!").

But I still hate Roland for the terrible customer support I experienced in the past. I got rid of all my Roland products because of this. The G70 would have to be a hell of a keyboard to change my negative impression of their company.

As to the "Roland does better voice allocation" thing... I don't buy it. That's sounds like Korg's "generous 62-note polyphony" statement. But I remain open-minded and would gladly check out a new Roland G70.

Open mind is all one can ask...fair enough..

Voice allocation is for real..Roland sets priortity to drums first and than bass, followed by the next important parts, such as right hand part 1 etc..

Fran,
Thanks for clearing that up for me. I have never seen or heard a Roland G series. My loss.
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A couple comments on George's post..Roland uses the term performances as Yamaha calls registration,,When Roland states that you can recall from the 144 performance locations as well as those stored on the saved media...This feature available on the VA-7 version 2, allows realtime selection of performances that can be used as "music assistant"[Yamaha song finder],recalled from internal or zip [as in the VA-7]..This is a great feature...

The other feature I like to comment on,,is the singer mode , taken from the DisCover 5..This allows you to set up the keyboard that it reads your vocal range automatically, when you play a sequence it is keyed for your range..You can save different singer modes for other individuals as well as your own..They are easily selected and stay active unless you change the singer..This defaults to normal at power up...

[This message has been edited by Fran Carango (edited 09-10-2004).]

George ....thanx for the heads up on the Roland release, sounds very very kool!

Now we need the PICTURES?

Yep!

Where are the pictures?!

Luis Santos

What about Roland G-70`s sequencer? the most important feature!

Would the faders (drawbars?) be real or virutal?
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