Can I use the PSR2000 and its Dance styles to make decent dance music? How good are the dance styles on the 2000? Are they improved over the PSR740's styles??

The styles are not bad, but I am not sure about the dance drum kits, they sound old like PSR 500. specially that ugly clap. and there is no puncy kick or that 909 open hat.

Sunny,
As far as dance styles.. I'm sure the 2000 has some good style for that.. However, you want to consider this.. I too write dance music, and one thing none of the PSR's do is pattern chaining.. Pattern chaining for dance music makes things SO much easier. I used a pro synth for my dance music. The PSR-2000 is more than capable of producing dance music, especially since you can edit the voices now, but it will be a little more difficult to write. If you write dance music on your 740 you'll find the 2000 makes it easier because the style sequencer is way better than on the 740.. The 740 doesn't allow you to copy your variations, but the 2000 will.. This makes recording styles MUCH quicker and easier to do.. Correct me if I'm wrong but I heard that you can now move from one variation to the next within the 2000 without having to use the fill ins... If this is true you can get a pattern chaining effect just by recording 4 variations of a style......
Squeak

Yes, you can turn off the auto-fill feature on the 2K. Also, on the older models such as 740, if you hit the variation button twice (quickly) instead of once, it cancels the fill also.
DonM

It may sound like it, but I'm not trying to be a smart-***. I want to know the definition of Dance music. Is it related to the heavy beat? Tempo? Lack of melody?
How does it differ from Disco, Rap, Rave or whatever?
Old Dog trying to learn something new.
DonM

Dance music can actually be pretty hard to write.. Of course there are those out there who just cheat and use prerecorded and sampled material, but really digging into a dance composition is intense.. Just programing the drum tracks from scratch can be some work. Whether the melody is boring really depends on the writer. A good dance song has smooth melody lines... A lot of hardcore programers program thier own arppegios and so forth.. I don't think it's like rap.. Rap is just a beat that's looped over and over with minor variations. Dance music can be quite complex. It has a better sense of movement within the score as compared to rap. Plus most of todays rap is just rip offs of yesterdays artists anyways... As far as Disco is concerned to me that's just vintage Dance and Techno before the digital age...

Squeak

Oh.
Can you give me a few examples of modern song/artists who do Dance music? I may be doing some and don't know it!
Thanks,
DonM