I respect Donny's opinions about the Tyros2. He has been a professional musician for many years and he's mostly voicing his concerns about the T2 from a Live performance perspective. Having played the T2 myself I agree with Donny about the SA voices being a little tricky to play in a live setting and that most of them don't sound a whole lot better than many Sweet!, Live!, or Cool! voices in my opinion. But they are a technical advancement in overall voice realism and I think Yamaha is on the right track with the SAV concept. I'm sure they will further improve the SAV sounds and the technology behind it as time goes by.

If you use the T2 for your home or in a studio I could see where some of Donny's concerns about the T2 would not affect you personally and consequently the T2 makes you as happy as can be. Congratulations if it does! More power to you.

But Donny's concerns about the Tyros2 from a long standing professional musicians perspective is just as valid (if not more so) than someone who thinks the T2 has NO faults whatsoever and wouldn't say a negative word about it even if their life depended upon it and all facts and other public opinion pointed to the contrary.

People get this attitude of trying to somehow defend their precious little investment - or in regards to the T2 a HUGE investment. - to the point they're blinded to reality and think they somehow owe Yamaha their undivided loyalty and devotion. Besides, having paid over $3,000 for the T2, they may rationalize that something that expensive which is now theirs couldn't possibly be anything less than perfection. How could it? I paid a fortune so it must be beyond refute right? They try and defend their position to the point of absurdity even when facts and truth point to the contrary. Talk about loyalty right? Oh well... if that is their position then it sure is going to be a hard nut to crack. I just try and tolerate it but inside I'm thinking HELLO??? Somebody please poke that person and wake them up to reality... NO Board is worth defending to the point of extreme. And you don't owe Yamaha a thing either.

Besides in three years or less you will have most likely sold your current Board and gotten something else anyway.

On the contrary, they owe YOU a gigantic amount of gratitude and support for choosing their company over some other and for spending a sizeable portion of your disposable income on one of their products in which they make a handsome profit from. But the way Yamaha tends to forget their valued customers once they've taken the bait from the hook and how they're not as supportive of their products in my opinion as most people would like them to be in the way of OS updates and bending over backwards to please their customers with product support AFTER the sale has been finalized leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. The Tyros will probably never receive another ounce of support from Yamaha in the way of OS updates or product enhancement. And I cringe at what awaits Tyros2 owners. I hope I'm wrong on that one but if the Tyros is any indication of valued product support then T2 owners may be in for a rough ride.

Best regards,
Mike

PS: The Vocal Harmonizer on the T2 is the SAME ONE that is on the Tyros so I cannot fathom why you think the T2 harmonizer is so much better than the Tyros'. They are identical i.e. "one and the same". Let me hear it in person. Post some .mp3 T2 harmony effects if you would please and then I will give you my honest opinion.