GOOD STUFF: Three sounds stand out: Piano (for live band work); Strings (for everything); Finger bass 1.

I have yet to find a piano sound as good for live work as is in this thing - and I'm VERY fussy about piano sounds. When I went from playing in a four-piece to playing in a two-piece, my first U-110 got commandeered to play bass and drum parts from my sequencer. (I like the fatness in the drum sounds, though they're not stereo, and there could be more of them; and Finger Bass 1 is my standard for bass.) I replaced it with a much more up-to-date unit for actually playing, but very quickly found that it's piano sound just had NOTHING on the U-110. So when another one came on the local second hand market, I snapped it up - a move I have never regretted.

Another stand-out feature that I haven't found anywhere else is that pitch bend is assigned at the Patch level. That means that any sound can have any pitch bend level at any time. Want a bass sound with a 12-semitone bend range instead of just two? Easy - just change patch to one set up with the same sound assigned to 12 semitones!! SO USEFUL have I found this that I think it should be standard in EVERY module!!!

NOT-SO-GOOD STUFF: The buttons on the front are crap, and there's only 6 of them, and that has to do for all functions, making the interface a bit of a cumbersome affair.

All sounds are mono, and sometimes hiss can be a nuisance. Other than the sounds mentioned above, most are average or below.

Will someone please tell Roland that when they make samples, the player of the instrument being sampled should on NO ACCOUNT use vibrato!! Yuch!! However (and this could be said for the rest of my gear as well) there are very few sounds that are too bad to be useful somewhere.

Manual is the usual cryptic unhelpful document Roland users have had to endure.

OVERALL: Very good at the basics. I use my two as my principal workhorses. Fancier stuff is done by my other gear.

I don't sell mine because noboby wants it.