I too have had great service from Steve. Posted a question on the Yamaha site and got a call within 24 hours from Steve and a follow up call a few days later.

Hammer

Korg PA2x.....Been there, done it, bought the T-shirt....no go for me on the Korg..Feeatures are great and Korg has a ton of them, most of which I ont use...as a workstation this idea of copying the Tyros sequence to a USB and reloading in Sonar is much much easier than recording directly to Cakewak. Edit and send back theough MIDI.orks like a dream.

It's all about the voices for me and availability of of styles Otherwise why by aan arranger when a aorkstation would do fjust fine.) and now voice packs which will be released at one set per month.


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THIS is one of the many reasons I bought the Yamaha and why the Yamaha sells as many Arrangers as they do.

SUPPORT SUPPORT SUPPORT.....Immediate no robo calls, holds for eternity,

I am prt of that equation. Every one I sell I offer in store help at any time after the sale. I sometimes spend an hour or more going through it with them, If I get stuck I call Yamaha and get immediate help. No customer is left to fend for them selves or told to read the manual. I will show them where the answer is in the manual as well becasue I know its a hassle for them to have to come to the store for something simple.

The BONUS is I LEARN with them. WIn for the customer, Win for me, Win for Yamaha.

I agree. Steve is wonderful. Several months back, I posted a thread that Steve responded to. I had a problem with some SA voices on my PSR-S900. Steve invited me to call him to figure out what the problem was.

I figured it out on my own. It was a polyphony issue. The SA voice sounded fine solo, but on some busy styles, some fast runs do not sound good. Probably not a problem on the T2 because it has more polyphony.

Back to Steve Demming. When I had received two faulty PSR-S900s in a row (The first batch had occasional quality control problems), Steve called me on the phone. Even though I had damaged the finish on one of these keyboards, Steve told me to tell Sweetwater that Yamaha would accept the keyboard for a return. Now that was exceptional service.

I own two PSR-S900s, and they are top quality keyboards. One has been through about 600-700 gigs since I bought it, and it performs flawlessly time after time. I also own a handmade Yamaha LL400 acoustic guitar that I am super happy with.

Go Steve!

Beakybird

Larry, the S900 has the same amount of polyphony that the T2 does i.e. a maximum of 128 notes. So, if you experienced polyphony dropout on the S900 you can rest assured you would have also had note drop out while doing the same thing on a T2. Unless, of course, the Tyros2 has a more efficient allocation method than the S900 does. Which it possibly could have seeing the price big difference.

>> I vote for Yamaha giving Steve a much deserved raise. All in favor say aye! AYE!.., AYE!, yep AYE! here, same over here as well.. AYE! Back in the back.. AYE!! You over there in the front row, was that an AYE?? AYE!!! Any opposed?? *crickets chirping*.... The ayes have it.

Best,
Mike