It is a power house of a machine with enough sounds to shake a stick at.

It abilities and options are near limitless and it really is an amazing piece of equipment that can be used for both professional gigs as well as home studios and simple hobby pleasures.

The great thing about buying a k2500 is that once you buy 1 you're set. EVERYTHING you could possibly want is in there - sampling, synth, recording, programs etc etc.

So if you can't afford numerous keyboards buying something like this - while a bit pricey - is all you will need.

It's also extremely sturdy and can survive serious bumps... I learnt that the way you SHOULDN'T learn that...

Anyway it's 2 major draw backs are its weight and its extremely complicated system. It will take at least 2 people to carry this thing around - so get a sturdy case with wheels and go to the gym and build up those muscles.

The Kurzweil system is complicated to say the least. Because there is near no limit to what you can do this makes using it extremely difficult. the instruction manual is as fat as a phone book and is sometimes not very forth coming in telling you what you want to know.

The manual is ESSENTIAL! So If you buy one of these always make sure it has the manual and the reference manual... otherwise you'll get lost in a maze of MIDI channels and soft button options changing things for the worst.

It's like screwing around in MS-DOS - you just don't do that unless you know what you're doing.

So all in all pros and cons measured this workstation is above and beyond what you'll need although I recommend only professionals buy this - as it would be a waste of money for the hobby-ists.