I don’t think Yamaha would be happy with you agreeing with such an idea.

What would be the basis for Yamaha being able to sell incremental upgrades to a keyboard?

If you put economic power in the hands of styles makers, then the manufacturers would have to have another reason to sell a keyboard other than styles.


It is nothing personal against professional style makers, its just business.


For example, if a style maker makes great styles for the T2 and they are copy proof, the style maker would just continue to make great style for the T2.
Now, when the manufacturer want to release a T3, they would have to have a lot more than new styles to sell the T3. Because, the customer would stay with the T2 if they know they can get great styles.


And, if you say that is B/S, then what would be the advantage to limiting the styles available to arranger users? After all, that is the selling point for Yamaha arrangers is that you can use styles from other keyboards for free.

And the selling point for a new arranger from Yamaha is new styles.