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Lunar wrote:I think the keybed on the new FA-07 is semi-weighted as opposed to the very light synth action on the 06,

Yeah apparently, my bad...I forget where I read otherwise. Would have been worth looking at if the price was more reasonable.

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If I had enough money I'd buy Roland and fire each and every idiot responsible for this. :( When I heard an FA-07 was coming out, I was cautiously optimistic; I can't really justify the cost of an 08 but can't abide the 06 key bed, so hoped this was basically an 06 with weighted keys (anything else ...

I disagree. Both can be used live or as a workstation very well. Been looking into both and lean to the DS as it's hard to justify such a huge price jump mostly just for a better sequencer, the nice big color screen, and its sample editing abilities, which I care little about. I've heard the "s...

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Given me more to think about, thx. sigh. I wish I could "rent" these each for a few months at a modest cost so I could really sit down and give them a valid test run. For me that's all but impossible in a store.

That all depends of what you call "a song". For me, it is still an old fashioned structure like intro, verse, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, chorus, outro. (of course other combinations are possible). That is something that is not "nice" to program into the patter...

The DS88 has absolutely no advantage over the FA. On the contrary, it has at least one, and it's a biggie: cost. :) do you need advanced workstation feature, i.e. mainly the 16 tracks MIDI sequencer? or do you prefer to have a easy to use on board song player for practice ? ? They both have sequenc...