How are the Tyros 3 owners out there getting along with those SA2 control buttons? Are any of you finding them difficult to get used to? Since it's a feature that requires you to remove your left hand from chord triggering.., are any of you finding it difficult to utilize this feature in real-time style play?

Hi Squeak ,

Not hard at all , in fact on some sounds like the Sax you can press an Art button and then a note for the effect.

Other sounds let you take advantage of SA right from the KB itself.

"Guitar Hero" is a blast , you can play a note . hold it and press either Art 1 or 2 and get a super sustain effect either up or down in voicing.

It is really a very expressive KB and it rewards you by triggering a lot of the effects on the fly.

Take care ,

Gary 

Squeak,
Happy new T3 owner here. I'm still getting used to hitting the SA buttons and it could be troublesome with some left hand chord changes. It could be easy to over use the button effects. My approach will be to try to use the buttons sparingly at a convenient time to produce a highlighting effect. Some of the SA effects seem to be triggered by key stroke. Octave note up or down produces a gliss. I hooked up my sustain pedal and reassigned it to the SA1 function. This seems to work pretty well, no hands needed. One can get different effects on some instruments by keying the function once or holding it a bit Still discovering the features and how they work.

JR

I appreciate the different added nuance effects the SA2 button triggered buttons provide, but over my 4 hour afternoon time auditioning and playing Tyros3 live running thru & playing thru my song repetoire of many styles/genres, I felt I was able to achieve indivual instrumental nuances I needed by simply playing the SA2 voices alone (triggering unique instrument emulation via kb velocity & playing techique alone), without regard to the buttons. That to me is the amazing feature of playing SA voices. For live playing, I feel the SA2 buttons an optional thing, as I would probably reserve their use for critical studio work & recording, but that's just me.

Scott

Word is, you can put them onto a multi-button footpedal, so all is not lost...

Good point Diki ! I already forgot I had discovered & posted that in an earlier thread.

Scott

The articulation.IMO, is best controlled from a foot controller. Now here is the problem. Yamaha MFC10 Approx $275.00!
Pa2x EC5 about $100.00.

EC5... five buttons? No controls. $100 http://www.musiciansbuy.com/KORG_EC5.html

Yamaha FC10... Three 7-segment LEDs, 27 LEDs, Panel switches x 5, Function select switch, Foot switches x 12, Foot controller x 1, MIDI IN/WX-IN select switch http://www.zzounds.com/item--YAMMFC10

About $300. Sounds like a bargain, in comparison.

I know which I would rather have

You just payed $3500+tax for a T3. And now you are going to worry about a $300 accessory (more a necessity, IMO)?

It probably sounds great through those $200 speakers, too