Tough for those that hearxd the instrument, they must admit the sound is not one but 3 steps up from the T4...

But feature wise, its just a T4+ , and thats what all those old men want, the same old feeling, with a brilliant new sound, people buying a Tyros do not want to learn the whole OS all over again, they just want to play and have fun, enjoying the clean stellar sounds that makes their T4/5 just sound the same way a song hears on the radio.. If they changed the whole interface to much, it would not sell...


Rumor goes that the 76 version will be the pro version with integrated touchscreen.. as you can connect your ipad air directly to the arranger at the same spot where the regular T5 has its TFT screen.. but it will be also much heavier as the T5 pro version will be build for the road (where the T5 isnt) the T5pro will also have 4 knobs for real time parameter controll.. and the option to controll a Cubase host directly over the touchscreen of the Ipad air.

From the photos we have seen (one is still posted earlier in this thread), the 76-note model appears not have a touch screen...of course, we don't really know for sure, but all is expected to be clear after November 11th.

Rumor goes that i-Pad integration is a good possibility on both 61 and 76 note models.

An easy operating system should be a given on any instrument.

Ian

Im glad its all rumors for now..

I guess it's a good thing so many of us are aging, and have so little hearing left..! It allows us to be cavalier about something so fundamental as drum sounds.

Only the deaf could possibly compare a Yamaha favorably with the best VSTi's. Or those SO partisan to their brand of religion (sorry, meant arranger!) that they are quite happy to ignore things so utterly obvious that only dogma could excuse it.

So, for all you Yamaha drum fans, here's some more good news... The earth really IS flat (don't look at those pictures from space!), and only dates back 7000 years or so. Those dinosaur bones and plate tectonics evidence are just fakes put up by Godless Liberals...!

If you are willing to ignore the evidence of your ears (or they are so shot you can't HEAR it), there really isn't an intelligent conversation to be had.

Diki, I'm 27 years old, and I had my ears checked and washed carefully at the doctor's office not a long time ago. I do like drum kits of PSR-S950 and I like them much better than a lot of VST I tried earlier. Don't want to argue. Just saying.

There are good VSTi's, and there are bad ones. Just as there are good arranger drums and not so good.

Compare the S950 with the best... Try BFD3 http://www.fxpansion.com/index.php?page=205 or Superior Drummer2 http://www.toontrack.com/products.asp?item=30

If you think those don't compare more favorably than the S950's drums, this might account for why your mixes tend to bury them! You have to get your drums up to the point where they can be heard well before it makes any difference...

Here is the latest I've just come across as far as Yamaha's description of the new T5:

http://www.poubnews.com/yamaha-tyros-5-larrangeur-haut-de-gamme

The English descriptive info is below the French stuff so you don't have to parlez Francais. There's quite some good stuff on the new model but I'm not as excited as I hoped to be. On the other hand, 76 keys is very important to me so I'll definitely take a closer look. I hope the keys are a better quality than in the past.

Hal

Why wont they show the 76? & look at all the wasted real estate on the display it could be much bigger?

Tyros has always looked like it could accommodate a 76 (or at least a 73) without getting any bigger! That sure is a lot of dead space up at the top end!

I hope the 76 doesn't have the same wasted space up there, or it will rival 88's for length...

On one of my Yamaha seminars, I've seen a Tyros4 with the cover off...very little wasted space inside.

I suspect the Tyros5-61 would be similar.

Check out post #373434 earlier in this thread. The picture (which is of the Tyros5-76) is considered to be legit.

Ian