I have a Roland JV1010. And a Ketron. Both work fine, just get a usb Edirol midi cable for the computer. To be honest the JV1010 has a knob so I do not hook mine to the computer. I use it to layer another sound into the mixer. You can preview sounds easily, and there is a patch map on the support website for band in a box.

The ketron has no knobs so I run it via the Edirol Midi cable in and out which lets me play the Ketron sounds on my keyboard using the Thru command at the top. You chose the instrument you want to play on your keyboard, run band in a box and bob is the proverbial brother to one of your parents.

The JV1010 for the age of the thing, is still a good synth. Mine is presently sitting on the floor beside me, hooked to a linux box. Works fine there. And Linux has about a millon bucks of free audio programs that you can get for free, free, free. Anyone who has not tried it and dowloaded a bunch of the programs should pick up one of those hundred buck terabyte usb drives, and get a magazine with Ubuntu in it at the store. Better have about 40 hours a day to play with all the great stuff. Before you install it remember to put Grub on your computer NOT on the hard drive or everytime you go to boot Windows you have to attach the hard drive and then select windows at which point you can detach the hard drive. Bit of a pain that.

John Conley
Musica est vita