I hear many negatives about the Tyros 5. I believe it is a fantastic keyboard when used in the right venue.

If I turned to only playing at home, it’s Pa4x out, new Tyros in.
Right now I’m battling the; “Can I still play out, or is it over”.

John C.

yes retirement can be a cruel thing,.....but music lives on in your heart & soul and as long as you breath you can make music even at home in many ways, like record albums for your friends, write songs, arrange & compose, teach others, learn a new instrument, or learn how to use a DAW software, VST's, etc, etc, .....just remember the good times and never give up..

Good advice Donny. Although most of the active members who post daily are, or were playing out, the majority of the members are not. I am sure music to many of the home players is as important in their lives as it is to us.

Tyros 5 can easilly be used to play out...
However, size and weight are a negative one compared to pa4x..

My biggest complain about the Tyros 5 is the minimal onboard options for sound creation and edditing.. also the user interface of the Pa4x is much better for real time interaction.

But for just sit and play, Tyros works very well...

Tyros has always been a "home organ mentality creation"....hope that changes in the future..

Now, I might be interested in a TYRTOS - what does it do??

I understand that some people prefer to do the editing and sequencing on the computer and that's fine. But it makes no logical sense to remove a function that a lot of musicians require for immediacy in terms of editing and sequencing on board the keyboard it costs virtually nothing extra . Some people don't want to have two keyboards, one for the studio and one for performing. It makes no sense to me anyway.

To the pro it does seem illogical, however, as pro use of an arranger is miniscule in comparison to the home user, (Which is what arrangers were designed for, as there basically just advanced versions of the old easy play features that were added to organs) so it is quite logical, the main reason Korg (And to a certain extent Roland) have more advanced features, is because they never had a dedicated home and pro user department, so in the beginning everything was just a dumbed down version of their pro keyboards, (Contrast this with Yamaha who have always had separate departments for home and pro) hence the reason that for quite a number of years a lot of users found them intimidating compared to Yamaha. (And also Technics)
Simple really
Bill

Thanks for changing your post, but now I can't edit my comment and it looks like I'm nuts!

Aren't we all?