Hello Dieter,
I guess this means you're back from your vacation. Hope it was
a good one. I just wanted to post some thoughts on why, for me, the
mono keyboard seems a better route at this point in time. It's not
only the money that I would have to spend to get a good poly setup.
But boy, it must cost, say, minimum 10000 US to get something viable
going at, say, the five-voice level. It's also the sheer complexity
of all the patchworking. I like to keep my setup relatively simple.
They say you can never have too many modules. But I like to work
relatively small for the "old-fashioned" modular-type setup. I'm
thinking a double G6 setup is about as complex as I would like to
get. But I am not very "live" oriented. I like to let multitracking
do the work of the poly mode; no need to provide one module of each
of the main types for every voice. I had a smallish modular Emu
back in the day. They came out with a poly keyboard around the time
I bought my system in 1978. I lusted after this machine, sure, but
how did they tame that beast over at the Chicago School of the Art
Institute, one that I saw but never played, with its dimensions of
about 44 by 60 inches A colleague of mine lamented the amount of
time it took to set up one patch on that thing. I do find thd the
modular mode the best for my needs, which tend in the direction of
atonal nonmelodic with a lot of "nonstandard" rhythmic patterning.
But it does tend to be cumbersome in the time department.

David Westling
Chciago IL