yes, the S5 and S6000 now have this think called LINKSys, a program you have on your computer, where you can control EVERYTHING very very easily, thru..... USB !!! (with the new USB extension).

I sold my S6000, it had 256MB of RAM, it was quite good, BUT I had to buy a SCSI hard drive and all this expensive stuff.. also the filters were almost impossible to control before... Now it is MUCH better.. no need of any SCSI peripheral, you can pop in AKAI CDROMs right on your PC and load them in the sampler, drag and drop instruments in the machine right on your screen... I mustt say they did a GREAT additions

so yes, definitly different between a 3000 and the latests.