Hi Artaher,

You have raised some valid points. Cannot disagree with you! Ofcourse, Yamaha can do it by itself if they put their heart to it. They are after all the worlds largest musical instruments manufacturer. Yamaha could easily make a portable version of their CVP-309 keeping the 88 weighted keys or using a semi-weighted 76 keybed adding polyphonic aftertouch. This will make it a true successor to the Tyros.

We should all sign a petition and place it here for Steve Deming, Product Manger of Yamaha to see.

Instead of making a Tyros II, Yamaha made a clever business decision to saturate the arranger market by offering the Tyros at half price. $3000 flagship slashed down to $1500. Yamaha fully knows this will attract customers like moths to a flame and after their initial euphoria is over, they will look into buying a decent controller. There again, a Motif ES7 makes a nice 76 key synth action controller or an S90 makes a wonderful 88 key piano action controller. More sales for Yamaha.

In the process, they have forced out all manufacturers from the mid range arranger market. How could any manufacturer hope to spend the resources on making interesting styles, add in the high quality DSP chips, include all the bells and whistles, design the custom CPU, market the product and yet hope to make any profit on an item that Yamaha is now selling for under $1400 street. They simply would bail out.

From the customers standpoint, Yamaha would have benefited us more if they used their immense technical powerhouse to make a portable CVP-309 and spent some time crafting interesting styles.

Tapas