Excactly Chony & it's another thing to hook up and carry...definitly NOT worth the hassles for for me!

Chony,

as I suggested in the thread initiated by you, all you have to do is create on the Motif XS rack some multi-setups corresponding to the genres/styles of music you play most. Then you have to filter-out the program changes on the receiving channels and you are set.
Example 1 - create a Latin set with:
1- Acoustic or Brush drum kit
2- Acoustic or Fretless bass
3- Spanish or Acoustic guitar

Example 2 - create a Funk set with:
1- Funk drum kit
2- Slap bass
3- Mega electric guitar (Strato-like)

You really don't need more than those three instruments to complement the Tyros 2 (you could actually use just the drums, since the Mega-guitars and the Mega-basses should be the same as the Tyros 2, unless Yamaha added some more basses).

Another possibility: imagine playing one of the Motix XS arpeggios in sync with a Tyros 2 style, just like you would do with an internal multipad...

[This message has been edited by Dreamer (edited 03-11-2008).]

It wouldn't work for me (unless I don't understand the XS well enough).

I have hundreds of custom styles that I'll use over the course of an evening and I change them at less than a moments notice. I typically will do a 1.5 to 2 hour dance set without a single second of dead air. I change the styles extremely often - sometimes a few times in a single song to keep things as fresh as possible. (You have to hear it to understand it. I guess you can look at it this way - for me my whole keyboard is one style with one thousand variations, and each variation is in a way its own style so that I have one thousand styles with no variations...) For me to change a multi each time I change a variation or style ain't happenen.

Chony

It was reported to me a while back that the Tyros2 and MotifES Mega voices were NOT interchangeable. There were differences in the way the Mega part of the voice was implemented. I've been on a quest for quite a while to find some way of adding Yamaha 'flava' to my Roland rig, but this one was a no-go.

And given how inflexible the T2's MIDI implementation is, it would surprise me to find out that the MotifXS Rack is any more easily integrated to the T2 than previous racks...