Whoops... as soon as I said that only the Motif and Tyros had OPT panels, I found the site where Yamaha has released OPT's for the S80/S30, S08, S03, and CS6x/CS6R synths in the past month:
http://www.yamahasynth.com/down/opt/voice_editor.htm

Just placed my order with Cakewalk for 2.0.

Terry: Great to hear that Sonar 2.0 is running smoother than 1.31 was. I personally haven't experienced any noticeable hangups with 1.31 so I'm curious just what specific improvements I might notice with 2.0 which make it run smoother: faster command response times, quicker screen redraws, etc?

The Pro: Yes, this new OPT technology sounds exciting. I assume the Yamaha OPT 'Panel' support on the Tyros will allow you to perform Tyros 'voice editing' (via Sonar) from a DAW control surface device such as Tascam's US-428, right?

I read that Yamaha's OPT 'Views' provides support for providing sophisticated MIDI edit views which include auto accompaniment data. Sonar 2.0 does not recognize Yamaha specific XF Meta Event data (which includes auto accomp 'chord' data) so I'm hoping this plug-in will provide a way to integrate (save) this Yamaha specific chord data along with the standard midi data in Sonar 2.0.

I'm also interested in finding out what the OPT 'Processor' feature might provide to Tyros and Sonar 2.0 owners?

This new OPT technology sounds cool and I'm excited to hear that it's supported on the Tyros. Pro: Many Thanks for enlightening us on this subject.

Scott


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Scotty,
I use a Yamaha AW4416 for 99% of my recording and only go to Sonar when necessary for midi or deep editing. The two main problems I was having with 1.31 was command response time and dropout. 2.0 seems to have improved both of those by about 80%. Ican run my latency much tighter now without the dropout.
Terry

[This message has been edited by trtjazz (edited 10-01-2002).]