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327
Good
The polyphonic aftertouch was badly designed, so it's terribly ineffective. It seems that the PolyAT sensors have been added afterwards, therefore they shorten the key action, making it difficult to express action by an experienced acoustic piano player.
327
The best master keyboard ever created.
It's heavy, MIDI implementation is not that clever, but the capacitive contact technique is fabulous, like the polyphonic aftertouch. It's the definitive master for pianists.
My one is Japan made, so its mechanics is the Suzuki build, known as better than the US one. When purchased I wrote to Hal Chamberlin, that in a few hours sent me its latest firmware, upgrade instructions and compliments for keeping alive his "creature"; very very nice!
327
Old and underestimated synth
Indeed it's a rompler, and it lacks portamento. After that, the sounds are fat and gorgeous, MIDI has two complete interfaces (32 channels!), display super-readable, excellent polyphonic aftertouch; it sports 4 Burr-Brown DACs. Like some italian production, the panel buttons are thin, so a good lighting is needed to work during shows. The Turbo kit adds more sounds and supports expansion static RAM.
327
Heavy but excellent
It's an XV-3080 with weighted keyboard, and two JV and SRX card slots. It has performance controls acting on filter cutoff, resonance, attack, release and D-Beam controller. The channel aftertouch does its job, even it does require some heavy action. Big buttons to avoid mistakes during live show.