The limit of 3 or 4 voices layered and split over the keyboard is kind of getting old..
Even the Roland G70 allready had 6 voices.

I hope next gen arrangers will allow for more voices on the keyboard.... Roland Jupiter 80 had a nice system, where you could have a bass, 4 left voices, 4 right voices and a top voice for solo parts... you could even layer those parts on top of eachother in full keyboard mode... however, since the groups of 4 voices where called live sets, there where still only 4 main groups vissible... just like on tyros5...

Having just 3 or 4 voices while enough for most situations, is one of the things they do need to advance in arrangers...

Hi Bill,
I solved the problem on the S970 by creating my own OTS and saving the style as a user style.
That way I can have 8 voices per style.
Eric

I setup my Tyros 5 with User Styles as well, but generally lock in the Freeze function for my Left Hand voice. This opens up my active registration bank to the selected User style... so 8 registrations X 3 Right Hand voices or layered for 24 active voice selections for the User style.

You can also save your 4 Multipads(with different voices, drums, effects, and patterns) to each of the 4 OTS saves, which again have 3 Right Hand voices.

So with one User Style save, the user has instant access to 24 voices from the voice registration bank, 12 from the OTS saves, and 16 different Multipad voices/patterns, drums/drum patterns, effects and throw in 4 optional Audio Multipad saves per User Style.

The Tyros 5 also allows OTS saves to be made to the Organ world voices and the Ensemble Voices, all accessible to a single User Style save. That power, that performance, that's Yamaha.

Marcus

I would never go back to 61. Just the total playing freedom is worth the extra 15! Go for it Bill, you are getting buffed!