Welcome back, however briefly, Scott...

Has anyone still got BOTH keyboards (S900 and S910)?

I'd sure like to hear some objective recording from BOTH doing the same style to be able to believe "the internal styles sound better than the S900" or do you mean STRICTLY the styles that have new Mega voices added to them? Can you hear any overall sound quality difference (maybe better D/A converters) than the S900?

I think that the speakers on the S910 might be a bit punchier.

I think an S900 style will sound the same on an S910, especially in a recording.

However, almost all of the S900 styles already existed as T2 styles. The T2 styles took advantage of some of the additional Mega!Voices and many of the other additional cool voices. Many of the T2 styles that had strings used the 2 Mega string voices that are on the T2 and these strings sound a lot better than the Live! strings that the S900 uses. The styles on the S900 that use brass use either Live! Hyper Brass or Brass Section voices. The S910 and the T2 use a Mega Brass voice that sounds way superior.

There is also the factor of the new style format that improves the guitar sound. The guitars sound excellent within the styles. I'll have to do an A/B for a style that's the same on the S900 and the S910.

By the way, I'm having a better than 50% success with the T3 styles. For some of the T3 styles that have voices that don't exist on the S910, the S910 finds substitute voices that are right - it will use the Mega! Electric bass instead of the bass that the T3 style has, and it will use a regular harp instead of the Live! harp that the T3 has. For some of the T3 styles, however, there is silence on the channel that has the non-existing voice.

The converted T3 styles that I have, whoever converted them just converted the style format so that they would load in a T2 or S900. They didn't correct the missing voices. So I've just been playing around with the original T3 styles to see which ones work. Most of the pop and ballad styles sound just fine in the S910.

Beakybird

Hi Scott

Good to see you're still alive and kicking

USB files load noticeably faster.

Beakybird

Maybe it's because I turned the parameter "Song Auto Voice" on, but almost all the T3 styles are loading and sounding proper in the S910, and the S910 is finding substitutions for the missing T3 voices. You can't see what voice is being substituted. All you see on the mixer is a couple of music notes instead of the symbol for a voice. But I can tell with my ears that the S910 isn't choosing GM voices but the best suitable voice that the keyboard has - often Mega! Voices or the Sweet!, Live!, and Cool! voices. Many of the T3 styles don't call for a voice substitution. The T3 styles sound excellent. I'm sure that overall the T3 can showcase them even better.

Beakybird

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Larry great keep those updates coming. So far I liking what the s910 has to offer.

One of the only voices from T3 styles that I find doesn’t load at all is the Mega Jazz Guitar. This stays silent in a style. But if you substitute the Mega Solid Guitar2 and eq it with high bass and low treble and turn it down a tad, it sounds great.

Beakybird

I'm getting fantastic reviews from my clients on this board. Yesterday, I gave a business card to this 89 year old, and I got a cell phone message from his daughter before I got back to my car - asking me to perform at his 90th b'day next week.

I can't imagine needing more styles. Having a great time exploring the new accompaniment voices, like S.A. Rock Sax, Sweet Mellow Trumpet, Mellow Brass. The additional organ sounds, especially the S.A. Jazz organ are excellent.

I am grateful to Frank of Frankieve of this forum www.audioworksct.com for an excellent price (which I will not disclose to anyone) on two S910's.

Beakybird

Yep, still playing & enjoying T2.







Thanks guys. It's good to be back.

Scott