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Message: [QUOTE="anotherscott, post: 203817, member: 2157"] Yes, MX88 will also do all these things. You'd have to use the computer editor, though, to pan your individual sounds to one side or the other. Getting back to something that has been alluded to earlier, being able to switch sounds without having held/sustained notes being cut off, here's an example of where that comes into play in your scenario of eventually playing bass with your left hand. Let's say you've got a piano+bass split for the verses, and you come to the chorus and you need to change your RH sound from piano to organ. Different boards provide different facilities for doing this, but a common way to do a quick change is to hit a button that changes from your "bass+piano" saved combination to your "bass+organ" combination. On the Kross, the issue isn't only that any piano chord being held with your sustain pedal will immediately cut off when you press the button to prepare to play your upcoming organ part, but also that any bass note you're playing will cut off at your switch moment as well. So you must time your program changes carefully, you have to hit them in between beats at a moment in the song when you can afford to briefly have no bass at all. If you do end up wanting the Korg, a workaround for that is to do a 3-way split (bass, piano, organ) which lets you seamlessly switch your RH between piano and organ sounds just by playing different keys (you can change the octaves the sounds play in regardless of where you play them, and 88 keys helps give you enough room to do that kind of thing). But this kind of switching between very specific pairs with fewer keys is is obviously more limited than being able to switch among a wide variety of sounds with large key ranges. In terms of switching a RH sound over the full RH key range without glitching the LH bass, Kross can't do it; Yamaha MX can do it in a limited fashion (you can at least do it within user-specified groups of up to 8 possible RH sounds, using the computer editor); Juno DS gives you the most flexibility in this. I think the lightest AND cheapest board that meets your criteria is the Casio PX360, and I'm pretty sure there is good flexibility for changing a RH sound without glitching your LH bass. Kross advantages would include modulation wheel, better MIDI functionality, trigger pads, more simultaneous effects, more sounds, and the ability to split/layer up to 16 sounds any way that you want (I think Casio goes up to 4 sounds with a single split point, i.e. you can have up to 2 sounds above the split and up to 2 below). Casio has a pretty nice touchscreen interface, and built-in speakers which can sometimes come in handy. The actual sounds of the Korg are probably better, but this can vary depending on exactly which sounds you're comparing and is also somewhat subjective. (Casio also has the PX560 which is better, but that gets out of your price range.) Some more distinctions I didn't mention earlier: Kross and Juno (and Kurzweil) have monophonic synth modes and portamento which give them better lead synth capability than Numa (or Casio). And as I alluded to in the previous paragraph, there are also differences in how many effects you can put on an individual sound, and how many total effects are available at once, and that comparison can get a bit complicated. But for example, Kross has 5 available insert effects, Yamaha has 4, Juno DS has 3, Casio has 1. (An insert effect is something that can be assigned individually to just one sound within a split/layered combination, separate from global effects that can be applied to everything you're playing.) Yamaha permits you to use only one such effect on an individual sound. I believe Roland and Korg let you gang them up... i.e. you could put all 5 Korg effects on a single sound, if you wanted to (though then leaving none to put on some other split or layered sound). Biggles could probably confirm this. [/QUOTE]

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