I know...I still have the boot marks...but I wear them proudly.

Ian

14 pages in this thread, and remarkably little "Tyros 5 info". Can we get back to the subject please?

Someone must have info to leak, after all the damn thing has already been shown in Spain / Germany?

Yeah - Where is Snowden when we really need him?

The Info That leaked seems to be correct so the only thing theres left is to hear it and wait till yamaha comes out of the closet

Greetz Rico

I met Bert Smorenburg in Moscow at the presentation this month. He was presenting PSR-S950, MOX-6 and MX61. Someone asked him why he wasn't presenting Tyros and his answer was "Tyros is a great keyboard. But it's very expensive. So I was asked to present these keyboards.". Also I had a quick chat with him and he told me that normally he demonstrate only synthesizers and Peter Baartmans demonstrate pianos and arrangers, so PSR-S950 was an exception for him.

btw what happened to Michele Voncken demonstrating for
Yamaha Tyros5 etc,..?

It seems from the leak that the audio stuff from the S950 has been adopted. It will probably be important that Yamaha have fixed that feature considerably, made it more useful (loops for the multipad audio) and made loading in more content fast and painless...

Or it will be the boondoggle it is on the S950, IMO.

Ketron, IMO at least got audio loops right... You either use them for EVERYTHING, or you simply don't bother. I predict we will still have only a small fraction of the ROM styles using audio drums, which kind of defeats the whole purpose, wouldn't you say? If they are THAT good, they will make the rest sound poor by comparison, and if they DON'T sound that much better, why bother?

Yamaha have had a year or more to rectify the audio issues. It will be interesting to see if they managed to or not.

I asked Bert about rumors that Michele Voncken has problems with alcohol and Bert said that it's true. He said that Michele couldn't manage to perform scheduled presentations at stores so now Yamaha's trying to use him in different ways. But he still works for Yamaha.

That's the story I got as well, Kabinopus. It's too bad as Michele is one hell of a performer.

Maybe he'll manage to turn things around...I hope so.

Ian

I didn't know it was broken! Mine sounds pretty damned good, at least to me.

Gary