And I have been for almost an hour, now. No, I haven't traded in my SD1... I'm very happy with it. But it's being souped up by AJ, and I needed another AK. So Donny, Eddie, Gary, and all you other 3000 guys, be prepared for some dumb questions, that is, as soon as I learn enough to ask some dumb questions.

BTW, my transaction with Donny went great... now if I can only get him to drive over to Ohio to show me how to work this thing.

Glenn

Glenn it was my pleasure ....I want to wish you musical bliss and mucho good luck.....
If you need help just shout......
or call "Mr Wizard" [Gary D] or
http://www.psrtutorial.com/

Ciao

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Glenn: Congrats. Someday I plan on taking the big step up to a 3000. For the present, until my ship comes in, I'm just gonna have to be content with my 2000. Hope you enjoy it and create many masterpieces.

All the best, RICE (The Lone Arranger)

Hi Glenn. Welcome to Yammie-land. You now have the best of BOTH keyboard worlds. - Scott

The phone hasn't rang yet--bet he's having lots of fun!

Gary

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It will...

Glenn. I went to a Tyros from a Ketron XD3 and loved it ...... for about a day.

I then thought I had made a great mistake and very nearly sold it again right away.

The mistake I made was wanting and trying to make it sound like the Ketron. They are just completely different. As others have accuratley said the ketron sounds like a punchy live band whereas the Tyros is more like a CD quality recorded orchestra.

I still think there is far too much reverb and other effects on some of the styles and I have therefore made copies of all styles on my hard drive with the effects adjusted and also other settings such as OTS.

I love to play both but I have only just now started to gig with just the Tyros now that there is a way to link the lyrics of a song to a registration.

I know you will enjoy your new board but don't make the mistake I did by wanting to make it sound too different....

Regards - KFingers

That is great advice KFingers. It is even true within the Yamaha family of products. When upgrading from the 2K to the 3K I lost almost 4 months fiddling & tweaking styles, registrations, EQ, mic settings, etc., only to come to the conclusion the 3K was pretty well tuned from the get-go.

If you play out using external amp and speakers, that is how you want to listen to the 3k before tweaking. There is a big difference between what I hear from the onboard vs. externals, especially when I crank it up for live performance.

Eddie

Always Tweak & Edit at full performance volume.....same thing when you go to buy gear PLAY IT LIKE YOU ARE ON STAGE "IN THE STORE" Too............
The tweaking process never ends
with an arranger KB

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That's really good advice. I made the mistake of not doing that a few times in the past

Squeak

My experience in this area is that I get rid of nearly all reverb. This makes the room you play in come alive, and you get the rooms reverb. This makes the styles and files sound much more live. When you listen to a band in a live pub or venue there's hardly any reverb on especially drums and bass. This makes it sound tight and precise. My recommendation for tweakin is to minimize the reverb to maximum extent possible.