When a 'big star' does something like this at a concert the audience generally eats it up - I saw Paul Anka do something similar to "My Way" with a Frank Sinatra video and the audience loved it - BUT - that is much different than a OMB doing it ... perhaps used as Scott says - intermittently, maybe even in place of a vocal harmonizer - it MIGHT work, but IMHO, not as a full time gig ...

Now wouldn't it be awesome if the multipads could loop (so that you don't have to keep pressing it again and again like he does at 11:44), and if you could sync them to beat so that if you are a fraction late or early you don't have to cancel the multipad and ruin your performance?

Can we get enough people to ask Yamaha to add these features? Shouldn't take more than 5 lines of programing...

When a 'big star' does something like this at a concert the audience generally eats it up

Once I finally receive my Tyros 5 and can actually confirm (in person) that the ability to loop is missing, I'll definitely be contacting Yamaha to request they ADD the critically useful multi-pad looping features. That said, whether they actually do it is another matter, as my repeated requests (since Tyros 1 and 2) to update the MusicFinder to call up reg files never got anywhere, even though I had discussed this at Namm with the Tyros development guys Martin Harris & Simon Inkley of who sounded receptive to the idea at the time. Funny thing, like adding the looping feature to the multipad, I'd expect it only would take about 5 lines of programming achieve, but what the hell do I know, Don't shoot me, I'm just the piano player! - Scott