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Made in China? While my Take 5 is made in the good old USA…

Pretty bland upgrade otherwise as far as hardware is concerned. I’ll wait for the next one.

Should be able to compare in a week or so. Interesting that the Roland costs about half as much as the Yamaha.

Bax are doing an EOL sale on Fantom.

Alternatively, a Korg i3 is similarly priced and allows for chord progressions.

Will do. Hoping it’s not on back order.

Ordered the 5. We’ll see.

Pianoteq Pianoteq Pianoteq

Happy birthday, big D.

Where did you see they got a new lease of life?

Using an M1Max MacBook Pro with 64GB of RAM and a 4TB ssd. Perfection.

$300 is what I read. Pretty weird.

Well, I did get a second RD-88.

I’ve always thought the RD-88 had too much to offer for its price. A good action, all those great Roland sounds (3000+), good speakers, MainStage compatibility and a USB audio interface in a full blown controller keyboard with 88 keys. So I guess that’s why they introduce the RD-08 at a similar price point. And probably will discontinue the RD-88 when they launch the RD-880 to replace the RD-2000.

The CK61 has a pretty amazing action, certainly for the price. I steered away from the clacky YC61 for that very reason. Happy camper.