YEah I could keep waiting on the corner for the next bus or I can get on one and actually go somewhere.

I believe Roland is behind the curve in this genre and way ahead of the curve in the Hip Hop dance stuff, That is their main focus in my opinion. Home keyboards are an afterthought,

Yamaha is all about home keyboards. That said I do not see the Tyros 3 being light years ahead of the Tyros 2. Why? Because their $7000 Clavinova which just came out is not that much different. The S900 is not a huge leap above the PSR3000. The Yamaha's best features is the worldwide support.

Korg has been at the leading edge in synths for awhile starting with the M1, then the Triton series......I think the Fantom will overtake the lead in the workstation area,

However on the arranger front I believe they are closest to a workstation with an arranger then Yamaha. The G70 would have to make a HUGE leap for me to want to go there. I don't see it happening with Rolands' foucus on the FAntom and their propensity for hip hop and that genre of music.

Donny,

No, haven't gone outside the 800 style library to date. Sometimes you just have to make things work and it's been a great ride. In addition, there are still many 3rd party that I'll draw from when needed. I cannot thank you enough for turning me on to this board a while back (based on your love for it then) I really love this board and the harmonizer is just a fantastic easy tool to incorporate in live play.

zuki

Zuki your very welcome glad to hear your doing good this "second time around" ....
I still really like the Pa800 & its very cool features....but I really wish there were many more styles to choose from....trying to convert Yammy/Rol/Ketron were difficult at best and not very good. I just needed much more to choose from & Yamaha provides that & more for me with Roland, & Ketron right behind. I also wish the file system OS was better too. Anyway I can wait a few months till the next wave of arrangers passes through & see what will be released next. Next month I will also try the TC Helicon Harmony M unit
http://www.tc-helicon.com/VoiceToneHarmonyM.asp

I hope its on par with the VH in the Korg as well we'll see.

stay well and good luck.

Yep Donny, will be interesting to see what comes next. There's that new arranger lull right now

With the 800, I really find it has enough styles for every single song I want. In fact, I'm using almost EVERY style in this board to work one way or another. That's what so interesting - more fun than I've ever had. Besides, the sounds are so terrific too. Throw in the pads, songbook and harmonizer....it is so very rich in live play. If no one else uses it, then I'm different too and that's not a bad thing.

But enough of my happiness - I wish that for everyone, really

zuki

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Zuki thats good to hear. BTW have you ever started your website.

Yes, I have 4 pages done so far. A simple site really, but easy enough to navigate. I need to complete it with demo songs, what else is new, huh and a good home page photo - maybe in a month or so - my schedule is really busy. I tried to do live recording on the spot one gig and goofed up the recording - soon I hope.