p.s. that is the beauty of marketing ...

Just curious as to how you got that impression without playing the E60?

Diki, I know you're probably scratching your head about my antics

"wherever" ended up meaning "for sale". Played more tonight - will just not work for me. I prefer the VA by far. It has way more power (sounds, styles) IMO. I can also live with the VA OS and just put stuff in UP. Hey, the saga will continue. If the VA is meant to be, no problem. I know it would be special live.

Zuki,

Have you tried the Tyros 2 ??

LOL I LOVE these threads...

Yamaha, Roland, Korg...The Big three. All relevant, All different. All focused on different user needs.

I have had all three at one time or another in my little studio and used them for different voices. To this day they have their voice strengths and weaknesses.

I prefer Yamaha because I like acoustic sounds and to my ears they sound the most real. I also like the Arranger Support.

I like Roland because of the EASE of USE,
I like Korg because the Triton WS has been at the heart of my music for the pas 10 years

Why now Yamaha (beside the employee cost which meant nothing when I bought the PA2x FIRST based on my history with Korg)

ITs not so much Yamaha as the feeling Roland and Korg have always with good reason catered to the "music of the day" I find too much Hip Hop , Trance, Garage on and on in the Roland and Korg product with the emphasis placed in modern genres (which don;t stay modern). Yamaha seems to focus on more generic terms and their pads and voices seem to stand the test of generic time...(or geriatric) time LOL.

As far as Workstations go. Roland seems to want to seperate themselves from the DAW with a GREAT OS in their Fantom Series.

Korg is kind of in the Middle but using the Linux (I think) system they won't allow open source voicing and the M3 is a beast to learn, and the recent drop in pricing speak volumes about it's "community" acceptance...while it enjoyed the top dog position for years rightfully so with the M1 and Triton.

Arrangers need top drawer support and constant innovation,millions of readily avaiable styles, easy re voicing and editing, great voice sets, I don;t see any Arranger that can score high marks in all these areas other then the Yamaha....Yes I sell them but I bought the Korg for much more then I could get the Yamahas for initially and gave it a 4 month run....

Hitman,

I've been thinking about the T2. It would make perfect sense to go that route. I enjoyed the S900 (no to the buttons again) and played live for over a year with it. I switched out to the 800, but miss some things about Yamaha. Hopefully I can sell my stuff and move on?

If going 2 boards live, I need to keep things light and T2 might be a bit much. Although, wow...what a combination and what an instrument

Well, now that Donny has settled down for a while, I guess the forum needs a replacement arranger collector.

I guess the point I was trying to make, zuki was to ask WHY you used the term "awesome keyboard" if you had not even tried it....

It makes the subsequent turnaround look FAR more strange than if you had simply posted that you were trying one out to see IF it was 'awesome'.

JMO...

well, it does LOOK awesome!

I'm kinda proud of myself also ......
There is NOTHING out there that excites me at the moment...for MY needs the S900 is one awesome ax that I really enjoy performing with. Only future units will be in my sights when if I play them & deem them fit for my needs only....hopefully a Yamaha