It looks a lot like the Nord 5 / 6D layout

It certainly does
could be a knock off to get a piece of that market share?..
....but why the SMALL display?..

Some asked why I was discussing when it's not an arranger - as I mentioned in my initial post, my reason for posting was to suggest that *maybe* the next Yamaha arrangers (such as next Genos) maybe could incorporate some tech from this new board, given that alot of us find the Genos/PSR drawbar organs to be "so-so" (not bad but not great) and this board has what sounds like Yamaha's best-to-date drawbar stuff . . .

I realize it's not an arranger, but we do sometimes discuss sounds that are in (or that we wish were in) our arrangers ...

Jim

Yes, and lots of other 'STUFF' as well ... no problem ...

WOW, I remember my 1980's Yamaha HS8T organ had AOC, and of course styles as such.....I guess it was a predecessor to our current arrangers. It sure had great sounds for the times and a killer audio system. 2 programmable foot SIDE switches on the expression pedal AND a knee bar. I would love to have all that available on an arranger. Keybeds were top quality too. A little hard to Gig with LOL, pretty dang heavy.

My LAST organ was Yamaha FS-500. Talk about a beast. Put that, the leslie, the bench, the footpedals, dollies, p.a. system, etc. in a van and the wife had to trot along behind because there was no room inside.

Hey, that's her business and let's keep politics out of this; besides, she wasn't even born yet.



chas (yeah, I know --> SOUTH)

Maybe getting off-topic. But Ketron's products still have provisions for switches on the expression pedal.

You could probably confer this functionality to other brands with a little soldering, and creative use of a few MIDI Solutions footswitch controllers. Those footswitch controllers are versatile and powerful! But a lot depends on what the factory makes accessible through MIDI.

DonM,at last I have discovered the origin of the song
"Don`t dilly dally on the way"(My old man said follow the van").
I`m sure you know the song,if not let me know and I`ll post it.

Don't recall hearing it. Would love to.