- a place to put a laptop mouse
- 2-3 mic inputs
- another input for guitar
- drums AND bass that sound kick-butt live (see Audya)
- more unplugged, pop, country styles
- loud, high-quality onboard speakers facing player AND audience

We're talking TOTL here. Make it a great solo player machine but also an awesome duo/trio machine! It would be cool not to need a separate mixer.

Keep it under $10,000

Well, Steve did say "irrespective of cost", which makes it all a bit pie-in-the-sky, really. If all the things that people have been asking for were brought to be, just how many would actually shell out the kind of cash that these dreams would cost? Not just the afficionados here, but in the world at large. I'm guessing it wouldn't be that many, most probably not enough for Yamaha to produce these things on the grand scale of the Tyros's and PSR's of this world.

Of course, the realistic goal here is that SOME items on this collective wishlist may well appear. Trouble with that is, only a limited number of folks will be happy and the 'shoulda done this, shoulda done that' saga will continue into forever. It's the old 'you can please some of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time'.

Kudos to Steve Deming for asking, though.

I tried to make ALL my suggestions mostly software ONLY...

OK, sure, an SSHD streaming ROM playback system would up the price, but look at the Kronos... It has one of those (and a whole lot more!) and is comparable in price to a T4.

Take a look at the price difference between Korg and Ketron (and older Roland) 76's compared to the 61 equivalents. Not exactly bank-breaking, either.

I think this thread has a LOT of great ideas that are little more than code. Much of it, not even new code. If Steve cares to look over this list, I am sure much of it could be introduced without tacking much onto the list price.

OK... thought of something else...!

I'd like to see a stereo WIDTH parameter for all stereo sounds.

If you are performing on a large stage, and set up the speakers well apart, certain things like the Leslie FX, drum pannings and the like are WAY too wide. But you still want the overall ambience reverbs, choruses and such to have their full width. It would be nice to allow width control as a global offset for certain parameters.