So excited. After several months of deliberation, I decided to pull the trigger and ordered T4 from Sweetwater today. Since I live in the same state as they, it should be here tomorrow. I demoed the unit there last year but decided to wait until I heard the Korg Pa3x.

I had T2 for 3 years and really enjoyed it but to be perfectly honest just got bored of the sounds and styles of it. T4 takes it to the next level, I will have new styles to play and I am sure I can spend countless hours with it until T6 comes around in 3-4 years

Congratulations Barty!

You will Love the T4. I went from the T2 (by way of the Pa2xpro and Audya) to the T4, and I'm loving it! Will you be able to sleep tonight?

btw...I'm sure our own Frank Ventresca could have given you a MUCH better price than Sweetwater with probably as good service to boot! Oh well, for future reference.

Bart,
Congrats...after our demo time last year at Sweetwater that day...I was impressed, but I am going to wait until I hear the PA3X before pulling any triggers.

Congratulations, Bart.

Speaking as a new Tyros4 user myself, I am sure you will be very pleased with your new arranger.

Ian

Barty, congratulations in advance.
I too upgraded from Tyros 2 to Tyros 4,
Though I've owned my T4 for a few months now,
I continue to enjoy playing it more than ever.
Looking forward to your feedback after you receive yours.

Barty

Congratulations on T4 and try to take some time out to eat and sleep!!

Barty congrats on your new T4 as stated above Frank at Audioworks could have saved you mucho bucks.

Enjoy

Jack

Thank you everyone. On the topic of price, I received a good deal from Sweetwater. They allowed me to come over and demo the board for few hours and they have been very good to me so I wanted to give them my business.

So far so good. T4 arrived this PM. Got it all set-up but I am on kids-watching-duty this evening so I did not play with it much. I really like some of the style though, especially the funk and dance ones. The SuperArticulation2 is unbelievable. This board is much more capable than I am so this upgrade will last me for a LONG, LONG time.

Hello Barty, I wish you a lot of fun with the Tyros 4. It's such a great instrument. So it must give you at least years of fun (or at least until Yamaha will release a new model again?? )

PS: Don't forget to upgrade the firmware of the Tyros 4. It'll probabely supplied with the 1.00 version release, that contains a nasty bug with the style volume section. The new version will also tune up the audio quality (as there were complaints about lack of bass frequency output). You can go to my website to download the new firmware and installation instructions:

http://www.robbiedoes.nl/tyros4_osupdate_uk.htm


Greetings,

Robert

Congratulations for you Tyros 4....I also have one, and is a total joy to play, perform.
I am sure you will enjoy it very much too.
I s so good to see a lot of friends that also give you well wishes.

OK. Brief update. After several days with the instrument, I am very happy that I have upgraded from T2. Marked improvement in everything. Better sounds, better user interface, better styles. Now the limiting factor is my imagination and my playing skills. I only wish that this upgrade did not cost me as much but I do realize how much $$$ it takes to R&D and produce an instrument of this caliber. I guess you gotta pay to play (pun intended).

Barty,

Your two last sentences are spot on, particularly the R&D, you won't get a KB that sounds like the T4 any cheaper, Yamaha know what the market will stand and what people will pay, enjoy your T4.


Tony

Yamaha, IMO, put a whole different level of investment into their styles than just about any other manufacturer. I honestly think this is the dividing difference between them and the others. In all fairness, hardware and sounds alone (no content), other arrangers are comparable (some of their sounds better Yamaha, some sounds Yamaha better them, etc.).

But with the styles, Yamaha leverage what they DO have to better effect. I wish more arranger manufacturers realized this. Only about 50% of the product is the hardware and sounds. At LEAST 50% is how good the styles are programmed. There are altogether too many arrangers where, when you get them OOTB, you have to go 'Why did they do THAT?! That string line is WAY too loud/busy/bright (or whatever it is)... who OK'd this?' and then you spend months undoing the laziness of the quality control.

Arrangers are about CONTENT. I've said it all along. Anyone that skimps on that part is doomed.