Yamaha S70XS keyboard at LIMS 2009

With these features, Kurzweil PC3 series is the best but a little bit premium priced. All new models are featuring how natural the piano and EP's sound. Great synth should focus on how natural the orchestral sound is.

Looks like I picked the wrong month to buy a (slightly used) CP-300 (for $1500 US - still a GREAT deal.)
I really love that thing, the speakers on the body of it make it ring while it sings. . . And the 5 band eq. Good sound too. The 71 lbs. thing is the only drawback, makes an S70EX tempting

The LED looks really lame, looks like MM6.

hmmmm... i wonder.... i already own an S90es..... perhaps id be better off getting a motif XS rack to add on instead of going for S90xs with a few more bells....... the layering thing wont do much for me as i just use the four sliders as a mixer live to bring in 3 more patches at will... so if i sold my S90es to get the S90xs... id have to pay over 2300 to get LESS synth power.... and $1299 for MORe power.... i think at $3799 thats rather gougey..... any thoughts on this?

That guy was such a legend. :p

"All these performance things can now be done in real-time" - You mean the same way I could do them on my PSR-300 back in 1994? And it even has the transpose keys, just like the PSR-300! What an innovative product! (but yes, it makes much more sense than Utility > Page 2 > Knob 4 on my S30)

Well, I'm not saying a PSR isn't a great machine, but a S70XS has a lot more keys :) also more sliders, pitch/modulation wheels and to top it off a vocoder...

nevertheless you can buy a PSR300 for about $100 nowadays which is about the same amount you'd have to get a carrying case for a S70XS, so it'll cost ya no matter what.....