Hi, I'm a new user of the xw-p1. I've been playing around with it and at first I thought: yeah this is nice for the price. You can tweak the PCM tones to something more or less to a satisfying level. Hexlayer is ok, might be good once I really get the hang of it. Didn't have high hopes on tweaking easily the mono-synth, and it seems I shouldn't have. But again I only have it since 3 days But the input's are really, really to low. I was planning on hooking up my tempest main outputs. And once I open up the volume to not even half the way, it sounds heavily distorted. The dspline is 1 channel for the whole performance, I kind of hoped to put a compression on the external input and use an other dsp on the hexlayer or pcm tone. Sadly I was mistaken. I won't return the unit becuz there are some nice feature I'd like to keep, although using the external input was a major selling point for me to buy this. And that seems useless now. Mike, I read somewhere on a thread you wrote something like; you have an organ for 499$ or this or that for 499$ And customers shouldn't be disapointed or complain (sorry if I'm wrong this is not a quote but something I read) I think that is not fair. Up to now all I can say is: I guess I got some value for what I paid. Shame on me to have High hopes on some features. But He, I only paid 499$, right? I really hope the external input issue is some kind of me using it badly, that would really make me happy.