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Also- it's not like sports- Roland's success (or not, we'll see) doesn't take anything away from other products/manufacturers.

Yet those things have generated a ton of excitement and will probably sell like crazy.

I don't own it, and with my iPad2 probably couldn't make the most of it, but it's probably the closest thing to the full PC DAW experience on iPad.

I dunno either, cause I'm too lazy to make the extra effort to plug my XLR mic into a 1/4" jack.

That doesn't work on the G1 also?

That's a really inaccurate assessment of Cubasis. It totally IS a stand alone DAW. It is not a one to one port of Cubase, but it has most of the functionality. You can open Cubasis projects in Cubase, but it absolutely does not require "being umbiliculed to a PC running Cubase" And you can of course control external hardware with it.

Don't judge the iPad by Yamaha Mobile Sequencer. There's Cubasis, for example....

Haha, have fun trying to get some personal tech support from Yamaha Inc....

Just to clarify, the firmware itself is not new, but the instructions and warnings are new?

In their defense,I have to say that the Korg M3 manuals are quite good. There's a smaller getting started one and a huge parameter guide, and both are written in correct English (or were translated properly at least). I think the most pathetic ones I've seen have been from Yamaha, but I wouldn't be surprised to find out that some products have better or worse manuals than others from the same manufacturer. A third party XW guide would be awesome though!

That's debatable. SOME people prefer learning that way. It takes me seconds to glance over a paragraph of text, but many minutes to sit through a video. If it's a really complicated step by step type of procedure, you are going to either have to take notes while watching, or go back for repeated viewing. I've watched countless hours of motion graphics tutorials, and to go from "first do this, then click here, then adjust this value..." to actually LEARNING something is a long process. As much as people like to hate on the XW manual, I've seen worse. To me, the main issue is the complexity of the instrument, not anything inherently wrong with the manual.

There's a great Yes DVD, think its on Netflix- Songs from Tsongas 35th Anniversary. Howe's playing is just spell binding- I can't even express how masterful it is, and Anderson's singing is really strong, even after all these years. Wakemen? He was there too, they show him a few times, but it's like he's almost an afterthought. Obviously he was an important component to their overall sound, but I've never felt he was as essential to the band as Howe, Anderson or Squire. I think most people remember him as a "virtuoso" cause he wore the cape and had a whole bunch of keyboards around him in that concert film in the 70's. I'd suggest anyone who isn't impressed by Banks' playing might need a refresher. "Firth of Fifth", the solo on "In the Cage", the organ solo near the end of "Supper's Ready"- just 3 off the top of my head... So, without using Google- who WAS the keyboard player for "Moby Grape" or "1910 Fruitgum Company"?? That's probably why they aren't the topic of this thread!

I'm thinking a thread titled "Any old Genesis fans?" might not be the best place to comment then...

Since Peter Gabriel only did vocals and occasionally flute, I must agree that Wakeman is better at the keyboarding.I really don't understand why you insist that Genesis was "corporate" and "manufactured by the record companies"- they were like most progressive bands of the era ( oh, except for Yes, with their radio hit of the shortened version of "Roundabout" ) - hardly anyone listened to them and they only got played on the college stations.

Well, you are entitled to your opinion, but I don't think that claim is supported by reality. They are not even slightly stylistically similar, musically or in lyrical/thematic content. I like them both, in fact Steve Howe is one of my all time favorite guitar players. I'd never even thought of comparing the two bands before, they are just so different. Are there any specific Genesis songs that sound like a "knock-off" of a certain Yes song?