Hi,

I've been considering and reading past posts about the various VA options and am suddenly starting to lean toward the Alesis Ion over the korg MS2000 and roland JP-8000. I'm having this change of heart because it seems to be a recurrent theme that the ion is warmer and thicker than the other two.

However, I've been cautioned that as a first synth the ION may prove difficult to learn in terms of editing sounds and scrolling though menus whereas the MS2K and JP8K have more knobs and sliders making the editing more straightfoward. Do any users of these boards have comments on how difficult learning the basics of the ion may be? And for that matter, if the warmth-learnability tradeoff really exists as I see it?

Thanks in advance! -evan