The ONLY complaint I have about this synth is that it doesn't have a data wheel, just two value buttons, so if you spend a lot of time editing patches and performance settings, you end up with sore fingertips (like me).

The biggest advantage this thing has over so much of the competition is the flexibility of the controls. The ability to do filter sweeps and apply LFOs to drum kits just blows me away. Watch all those analog purists drool when you sweep the filter on a pumping 909 sequence!

This puppy WILL damage speakers, however, if used incautiously in this fashion. The basses, esp. SH101 & TB303 samples, are great.

The filters are sweet, as a friend of mind described them. Perhaps one of the most interesting control features, speaking of filters, is the ability to induce random splutterings during a perfomance by setting the modulation lever to "random resonance-cutoff" which just applies a bunch of random values to the filter whenever your finger twitches on the mod stick.

The arpeggiator is fun but not super-useful. Some patterns might be very handy for doing shimmering-ambient-trancey background parts I suppose.

What with the price, I wonder why everybody doesn't have one of these.

some time. After awhile, I had an urge to compose my own. I wanted a

synthesizer that was cheap and versatile, and with my XP-10, I

couldn't have been more pleased. (I am speaking of course, in the given price

range) My screen DID have a backlight -- probably something Roland later

installed. It's got every sound I could possibly want, and the "acoustic"

sounds are incredible. Using features like dual and x dual, I was able to

create sounds that sound strikinly analog. The arpeggiator is customizable,

versatile and sounds excellent.

With just my xp-10 and a four track mixer, I've been able to make some rather

impressive stuff.

If you don't want to spend too much, and want something with a broad range of

features that's easy to use, the XP-10 is the way to go.

The only problems I find are that the sliders are small the keys are noisy, and

The MOD lever is kind of cheap. They just don't feel as solid as say -- the

korg X5, but features like the arpeggiator and that "fat" roland sound more

than make up for its faults.

great value

Looked around and fiddled with a lot of synths at the store. Got

to the XP-10 and noticed that it was a bit easier to use than the others.

First thing i noticed was the sounds: the quality was much better that the others.

I flipped through all the instruments and fiddled with the two sliders making weird noises really

loud to annoy all the other customers in the area. Got home and read part of the manual. Some stuff a bit complicated

but I'm gettin' the hang of it. My friend and i seem to have gotten used to this thing pretty quik. bobo happy.