I still stand behind most of what I said in my first review. I've discovered things since that I find both very helpful and very inconvenient.

I've begun to take advantage of the extra outputs that can be used as FX sends and returns. This is a nice touch, and helps out the very limited onboard effects. In my live situations, I use this mainly as an extra channel for a phrase sampler that dosen't get used often--this keeps me from being a channel hog, and makes setups quick and simple. The dual MIDI ins are also a welcome feature. I have a Roland A-90ex, and a VK-7 organ both midi'd in with the unit permanently in multimode. I use the VK as the main controller w/ program change enabled on four channels, and the A-90 gets its own input, with program change disabled. When I need great strings behind the piano, I hit a button on my controller, and it's always there. It's very slick and customizable for gigging.

I've gotten a session gig, and I find the ability to find sounds quickly to be very valuable. Also, having the knobs makes it easy to modulate the sound if I'm playing a controller with few knobs and silders on it.

I've got the unit fully loaded with the ZR-76, B3, and Orchestral Strings installed. The ZR board (as mentioned in my previous review) is not bad. I found it to have a very nice high register, but overall I don't favour its sound as much as the A-90. Live, I still use the A-90, but in the studio, strangely, the ZR piano souds amazing. It fits in the track beautifully; the already detailed high end sings, and the normally muddy middle register manages to sound full bodied and clear, fitting perfectly into the track with no additional EQ or anything. I have no clue as to why this is. In the studio, we run in stereo, and mono live, but in no other piece of gear I have ever owned, has this made so much a difference. This is my main piano sound in the studio. There are other nice sounds on board as well as some high quality stereo sampled drums.

As far as sampled B3's go the EMU chip is great. I own a VK-7 as well as a real Hammond C3 & Leslie. Both of those are obviously better, but for live and in the studio, I use the EMU just for the sake of ease of use and portability. It works great in both of these situations, and if I control it from the VK nobody knows that I'm not playing the organ. The Emu actually has some grit and bite in the note's attack that the physically modelled VK lacks. Not a perfect clone, but sounds great, and I get a lot of compliments about how good my organ tone is.

I use the Orch 1 chip just to put a nice string sound behind my piano if I'm playing a ballad or whatever. Live, I think that it loses some of its subtlety, but in the studio it really sounds incredible. My first choice for section strings, bar none.

The most irrating thing I have discovered about the P2K, is that the link mode dosen't work as I would like it to. I was programming some sounds for a kid's show, and was on a tight schedule. I found a bass sound that I wanted to put in the left hand of my piano sound. I went into my piano sound, changed the key ranges, went to "links," grabbed my bass sound, set the key range, and found the bass sound sounded totally different in the context of the piano patch. Apparently, when you do a link, the linked sound is offset by the destination sounds' parameters, so the filter, envelope, etc, don't behave the same way. There are time consuming workarounds, but I just wanted the pathces to sound the same no matter where I sent them. What should have taken minutes took almost an hour, stress, and a call from Toronto to California to only half solve the problem.

Again, I am still happy with my purchase, and would still highly recommend it to others. Be aware of its limitations, but be aware that there are ways around them. The sound quality varies from acceptable to outstanding, especially where the expansion chips are concerned. It's built well, very easy to use, offeres a very comprehensive synth engine (now with fifty filter types!) and pretty reliable. I still think that when you add it all up, it still amounts to an outstanding bang for the buck. Feel free to email me with any questions.

Usually I say that it's just how you use it or what for you use it but now I'm not gonna say it. This sucks in any department, sorry. I have owned over 40 synths from Korg Prophecy to Kurzweil K2000 (including Yamaha VL, Kawai additive synthesizers, half analogs, etc).

There is no machine that somebody wouldn't like so I'm sure there is many(?) happy owners.