Keyboard features ...check it out!!!

61 touch sensitive keys, full size, nice feel

Speakers

Mic input w/ level control and effects

Vocal harmonizer

Real 16 track sequencer

style converter

Insert effects

SMF player

Great on board styles and user style area too

Styles and SMF's can be synced to each other, allowing both to play at the same time

Lyrics read on touch screen

Besides two variations for styles..each variation has 4 selectable style orchestration buttons

4 programmable phrase buttons

4 assignable function buttons

Styles have one touch setting with 4 variations for each style

Dedicated piano , with adjustable open/close and stretch tune

Dedicated organ with drawbars and rotary

Damper, sostenuto, and soft pedal jacks

64 true polyphony

MIDI in /out/thru


Floppy drive
Dedicated sliders for volume/brillance/reverb/balance

Search songs and styles while playing

manual bass/ with layered right hand[two tones]

User programs[all panel settings]

Quality built[about 30 pounds]
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Many more features [markers, count in, tap tempo, transpose etc].

Street price $600

Fran great sales pitch!! Now tell us what it is?

Is that the E6000 you were so in love with earlier this week? What happened?

Yeah, that feature list looks exactly like the E-600. You got one of these now Fran? Get it fill that void after selling the G-1000? (I'm still shocked you let that puppy go...)

Yes the E600..Cass I still love it..I am not selling it...Just showing "Bang for the buck" can be found in used instruments, instead of settling for "Bang for the buck" PSR's

The E-600 was over $2,000 new, and it still can compete with today's stuff, eight years later...

The only other choices I found with a mic input and harmonizer[arranger board]..was the PSR3000 and even at $800 [used]..I would still have to play the keys[ugggh], and listen to that hand clap ...

This time around [I had one before], I checked out the features, and found they work pretty good...especially a great sequencer, and assignable buttons...The orchestrator is also way cool..

Squeak, I sorta wished I kept the G1000, but I had a good buyer, and the G70 pretty much replaced it..I wanted something a little lighter to leave on my steady job, without too many concessions...E600 is that board..

I use a laptop with the band[at this steady job]...so the E-600 is perfect..

For my solo work, I will carry the G70...maybe small 1 hour jobs the E-600 is all I need....besides I have a loaded Zune for anything I need from my laptop..


V-Stand with mic boom, E-600 and Zune..For sound, my Traynor K4...Can't get any more compact than that...and still a "BIG" sound..


This E-600 satisfies me , for arranger keyboard..as the DisCover5 did..especially in the band..Although the DisCover5 had a strong edge over the E600..playing with the band...

BTW: a chord sequencer too

Wondered if it had one... What idiot at Roland red lighted that feature? I want his head!!

[This message has been edited by Diki (edited 07-27-2007).]

Fran,
If I were to name the "best bang for the buck" keyboard, I would name Casio's WK series. They offer a lot of keyboard (76 keys to be precise) for the money. It is fairly well built too. No, I do not work for Casio, but had one of the WK keyboards and had absolutely no complains about it. I moved to Tyros 2 which cost me exactly 10x what I paid for the WK-3000. Unfortunately, as amazing the Tyros 2 is, I am not sure if it is 10x better than the Casio.

Wow now theres an honest statement!

Barty, I owned the WK3000(in fact 2 of them)..For the price, you are correct..new Bang for the buck is high...but they are not without grave limitations....polyphony is one, style variations another..
They (WK3000) lacks a mic input, and outputs[other than the headphone jack]..

On the other hand a used board of the E-600 caliber..represents true bang for the buck...and I am sure there are others...none come to mind that offer what the E600 does for the price...