you all have valid points....maybe you won't believe me, but i also have lot's of gear with advanced functions, and am thinking of things that it cannot do, and new stuff i want to have that has more options (i even am a nord modular and native instruments generator guy ;-)..believe me, i've had contact with yamaha and the list of wanted features and "bug"fixes that was compiled the first time around on this list (more than 6 months ago) has been received by yamaha engineers and looked at.... the point i am trying to make: i read lot's of posts about all kinds of gear (is it the A3k, the RM1x or any other stuff)...and a lot of times it only is about what is NOT there instead of about what IS there and how to use it to good effect... i have the feeling that a lot of people (including myself) are having serious cases of gearlust...we always want more, faster, better....and when we have bought something, instead of learning the machine and creating music with it, we play a little with it, and start thinking about how we could improve it with new options and stuff.....and then something strange happens: we start thinking that the machine isn't good enough to make good music with, because it lacks these things we would wish....we start complaining about the things it doesn't have, maybe sell it, but more often buy some new equipment with even cooler options.... but does this help? not for me, i have tons of gear, but i notice that i made better and more music when i had nearly no money and only had a Kawai K1 midisynth as my masterkeyboard and a TB Maui sample-soundcard...i had to work within those limits, i knew how to use those 2 devices to the max....but now i have so much gear it's more like playing around with all the toys, making funny noises, trying to use every option, compared to using it all to make better music... i just try to say: it's good to have wishes, and to make them heard to the developers, but always remember that next to the things your gear cannot do, there are much more things it CAN do....and if you cannot make good music with the high quality stuff there is around right now for very little money (compared with 10 years ago) you NEVER will.......the gear isn't the limit anymore, it's the humans that have to control it.. Olaf
