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QUOTE: Roland made this machine for other reasons... nothing to do with making a better machine... its other things involved that made them make the 8800.... but thats a whole other story.

Please tell me this story.

Thanks Mans!

On closer inspection, the new MV8800 seems to only have a colour screen and the inclusion of the VGA output board as new features. Is that really it?! Please, tell me what I'm missing...

http://www.rolandus.com/products/productdetails.aspx?ObjectId=848&ParentId=72 Not everything I'd hoped for... So, Mike, tell me, has the MC909's Turntable Emulation feature bitten the dust as far as future products are concerned? Or (fingers crossed!) can any of the MV8800 assignable sliders/fa...

"Rolands advice. Buy the MV8000. You'll love it."

If this is really Roland's advice, it's a bit rubbish! The MV8000 has been discontinued. Music technology moves at an incredible pace, you don't want to be hog-tied with yesterday's kit!

Look, Mike, NAMM's only a week away. You can tell us what you've heard! Go on, whisper...

I think that might be code for, "I've passed on all your ideas and spec's and the boys back in Japan and they want to offer you a job in the R&D department."

Did I mention that I'm a pathological optimist?

Btw, did you mean Winter or Summer NAMM?

Unfortunatey for me, Anaheim is 8 or 9 time zones away! Any Californian forum members going?

With the MC-909 discontinued and the MV-8000 about to share it's fate, is there any future for high-end sampling workstations at Roland? Admittedly the 909 was flawed and the 8000 never took off (sales wise) like the long-established MPC series (from you-know-who ), but both machines had some pretty...