Just curious as to what people think. If you were getting a tyros 3 at $600 less than a s950 would than make you buy a tyros 3 instead? I'm Coming from a tyros 1,s900, s910

For me Tyros 3 is much better keyboard than S950.They are not even in the same league .It's the closest thing to T4.Much much better keybed.1 gig ram for sampling.S950 is a good sounding toy compare to T3.I do like those new guitars.
It's all what you really need and like.I still think S950 is overpriced.

if i went for the tyros 3 i would be missing out on vh2,audio styles,real drums,indian drums, ability to use wav samples as multipads, s950 has more sounds than tyros 3.

If i went for the s950, i would lose out on upper 3, better speakers, better screen. thats about it for me as i dont care about the other features the t3 has over the s950

I owned a Tyros 3 and now the S950 and the S950 has about the same sound to me when played through the same monitors, but boy do I miss those tyros keys and especially the after touch.

The FSX keybed on the Tyros3 was specially developed to make the most of the new SA Voices, and the aftertouch really adds a lot of expression without having to use the Mod Wheel.

However, having used, for some time, a PSR-S910 with the same keybed as the S950, and some of the very same SA Voices, I was still very pleased with the overall control the slightly shallower and very light action gave me.

The S950 will also give you Wav and MP-3 playback with tempo and transpose control, and center voice cancel...if these features are relatively important to you, then the S950 is a good choice.

Like the Tyros3 and S910, the S950 does not have any SA2 Voices.

Ian

Thanks for the advice guys. Ian the tyros 3
Does have a handfull of s art 2 sounds.

My apologies, rolandfan...you are right...the Tyros3 does have SA2 voices...11 of them...I was thinking of the S910.

I especially like SA2 Jazz Trumpet...I rarely used Trumpet sounds, as they were always a bit too strong for the laid back music I did in the restaurant, but the SA2 Jazz trumpet is very warm, rich, and not at all too tatty...very expressive.

Rolandfan, here is a comparison by Yamaha of the S950 and Tyros3.

http://usa.yamaha.com/products/musical-i...mp;mode=compare