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Another Scott thank you for taking the time with such a detailed comparison! I still have the ds-61 and at one time had it and the fa-07 but ended up like the fa better..seemed like it was easier to get the sounds I wanted and the pads were handy for having sounds ready when playing live. I liked the keybed a little better on the fa...the keys are bit longer I think? Maybe I just need to learn the Ds better? Thanks again I really appreciate it!

Cool! I was asking around on gearslutz and a guy that has the fa-06 said only 2 so I wanted to check before buying one. I knew I could do it on the fa-07 and it was super easy. thanks for the info!

DS and FA are identical in this respect... you can split/layer up to 16 sounds, with as many different split points among them as you want (because each sound has its own definable key range). There's no right answer there, that's always subjective, but each has some "technical" advantages over the other, sonically. The FA has the "SuperNATURAL" VA synth, and a handful of SuperNATURAL acoustic tones as well. OTOH, the balance of the sounds come from the XV-5080, whereas the sound set of the DS is not as old as that. On my ds-61 it seems to have just upper and lower split. Is there a menu function, edit etc to get more splits? Also the fa has chord memory which I used to find handy as I'm not a real keyboardist, just a dumb bass player Also the sounds just seem to be bigger with the fa series, I really like its fake electric guitar sound as well! Just getting back into adding keys with bass in my band..now that bands are playing out again! Hurrah! Thanks for being patient with my stupid questions!

You can do all that on the roland DS too. I have the ds-61 which only allows one split, the fa-06 allows more than one correct? I like the sounds of the fa series better as well as chord memory. thanks!

Hey so the Fa-06 allows you to do more than one split? So you could have 3 or more sounds/2 splits? I had the fa-07 and I think I had a song with 3 splits so I could have 4 sounds. thank you!