To me, the 2000 is a very nice and advanced home keyboard, with a lot of pro features to boot, but I have to agree with those who believe that Yamaha didn't make it with the pro players ( or studios ) in mind. I don't think it would hold up well against the rigors of either of the latter uses.

I concur totally with Uncle Dave, Macallock, and DonM on their thoughts concerning the way in which the 2000 was marketed by Yamaha as opposed to how it was actually released. The OS in mine ( and apparently some others) was just a mess, and while that itself was bad it would have been tolerable to some degree had an update been available via disk ( flash rom ) as promised by yamaha. That it wasn't available as promised really pushed me over the edge with the board. It didn't help that my board sat in a repair center for weeks while I waited for an upgrade that months later still hasn't come. ( Or has it finally ? )

I gave Korg nearly as much flak over the PA80 in the early going because they released it with such an incomplete, and somewhat useless OS. I was a day or two away from trading it in when 2.0 came out and was made available for download right from Korg's website. 2.0 didn't fix everything, but it was a major step in the right direction. Korg let us know that another upgrade was coming later ( and it did finally ). They have been far from perfect too, but I would asy that their after market support of the PA80 is far better than what Yamaha has offered us for the 2000 series to date.

I notice that there is no lack of support, upgrades, or input in general from Yamaha on its' sites for the Motif, while their arranger customers in comparison wait around for tiny scraps of help for a board that obviously has some problems, at least for some of the users. I think they DO treat the arranger customers with a lot less regard than their "pro" synth customers. Maybe that isn't entirely true, but Yamaha has done nothing to sway me from thinking that way. Keyboard "snobbery" aside, a customer is a customer, and I think Yamaha could do a lot better to serve all of us with the same regard.

AJ



[This message has been edited by Bluezplayer (edited 04-29-2002).]