I visited Frankie's place recently and he demoed the T5 a little for me - no I have no interest, just wanted to hear it ... like Donny it is far more than what I need - Frank showed me the ensemble feature and while it is quite impressive, my question was how many OMB are going to make use of it? ... I see it more as a 'studio' tool ...
JMHO

Its definately not a studio tool, because in a studio every instrument in an ensemble gets it own track..

Its meant for live playing, and if you use the harmony function, its quite easy to get great results, and for pros it willreally make the difference on stage when they get used to using it..

I agree. Like anything else, I'm might take a short time to master, but the result is worth it. The versatility of the 'Ensemble feature' gives us the potential to sound even more realistic then ever to cover all the different musical requirements of a wedding. From emulating a pipe organ and vocal choir for the church ceremony, a 4 piece string ensemble at the reception, and then realistic big band horns for the after dinner entertainment and DJ'ing during the dance portion. Instead of having to hire different musicians/bands for each portion of a wedding event, they can simply hire us OMB guys to handle the entire music for the wedding and perhaps at a cost saving to them as well.

Tony consider yourself lucky!! I too just wanted to hear it! My mistake I can never go just listen

Steve ... it's all about priorities ... my priority was living in Italy for a month, which cost about the same as 5 T5s ...

I loved this video. So glad it was sub captioned in English. I know I will love this feature. As a home player my harmonies should sound so much more realistic..........I hope.

I can see I will have to practice my left hand skills and won't be playing just chords to make this feature work. It's also nice Yamaha made a provision for less experienced players to still use this feature with 1 note.

Are we sure this feature won't show up as 4 tracks in the song creator?? (if it works that way) I'm wondering if 4 tracks of midi data couldn't play these ensembles..............

Anyway.....this still is a cool feature I will use. -charley