<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 02.08.2012, at 23:07, Peter Korsten wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">Anyway, when googling for that synth, I ran across the new Casio synths XW-P1 (performance) and XW-G1 (groove). Apart from a really poor choice of name (ecks-double-you-pee-one), what do you guys think of these? Especially considering that they cost €538 and €585 respectively at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://Thomann.de/">Thomann.de</a>, which is not bad for a five-octave keyboard.<br></span></blockquote></div><br><div>Hm, I don't find the look very inspiring -- but that's a silly thing to say, because sound and UI should determine its usefulness.</div><div><br></div><div>interesting choice to make a groove synth without any pads, just 61 keys?</div><div><br></div><div>will try it out when I come across it, but wouldn't drive anyplace just to play it..;)</div><div><br></div><div>Kai</div><div><br></div></body></html>