How about a good controller, and put the balance that you would save into some great VSTi's?

If it doesn't need to leave the studio, that's the way to get the best possible sounds...

Yeah Im leaning that way. Its hard to pass up a TOTL WS for around $2200 though. IF we carried The Roland line Id get the G8 hands down. Even I could figure out that GUI. The Korg is great but the learning curve is HUGE....just looking at the manual.I can get around The Roland without opening the manual...like a MAC!

Surely, then, as a diehard techno-geek PC lover, isn't the Korg PERFECT for you?

I mean, who needs EASY?

You would think so...I understand however

A manual learning how to put 12 parts together to make a fully functional PC should be about 20 pages at most. The mother board manual may have 20 pages.
One of 4 the Korg manuals is 240 pages!! NOT PERFECT AT ALL.

Even the Tyros is half that and most of it is like the Roland...... intuitive and not needed. I use the manual as a reference not a tutorial. One HAS to read the Korg manual to do practically ANYTHING with it.

The Motiff is not that much better in that regard. The Fantom looks like every PC screen I have ever seen the way its laid out. Even the EFX racks are drawn as racks,

We decided not to carry Roland but if i could get a new G8 for $2450 I would be all over it.

Kingfrog,
Even if you don't sell Kurzweil there...you can get a88 version for abou $2200 (maybe less) It's the sound baby! As they say.

And TOTL workstation featurss, MIDI and controller functions.

I had one here for 2 weeks.
May have one again. (module version as I don't need another keybed)

Lee

I understand the slim manual to make a functional PC, King.

It's the stack of books you need to KEEP it that way once you actually use it on the Internet that you don't acknowledge...