Andy,

It's good to hear you actually played the tracks from the Tyros keyboard but they were still recorded and edited in Cubase. My beef with the recording method is that most manufacturers never tell the consumer that the demos weren't actually done on the keyboard they are touting.

Roland was notorious for having highly polished demo's that were done in World Class studios with world class musicians utilizing tons of outboard gear. When Eric Persing was doing demos for Roland all the music was mixed on a custom modified Trident console using Roland outboard gear, Eventides, AMS's, EMT plates, and various other high end gear. The demos sounded awesome as they should.

Please don't think I was questioning your playing ability or skills, that wasn't even a question and your resume is impressive to say the least. As I said, you're hired to do a job and whatever means you employ to finish that job is up to you. My complaint is that Yamaha (and other manufacturers) would have the consumer believe that the demo maker played and recorded the demo on the actual instrument which is most often not the case. Some of the demo's were done with rack mount sound modules that employed the Tyros 2 soundset. It's not rare for the demos to be recorded this way since the actual product is most often nowhere near production level when the demos are made.

While you are the exception I know that many of Yamaha's demos were recorded using MIDI based instruments that were played into Cubase via live musicians. Sometimes the only way to mimic a instrument is to actually trigger and play a sample with the real instrument.