I have just been to a Tyros 2 Demonstration in Bolton.

It was not possible to get some time alone with the beast, but I was able to run my fingers over the keyboard and I would describe the action as nicely weighted, sprung keys. There was a Tyros 1 in the showroom and those keys felt very light in comparison. Both felt rather better than my PSR3000, but thats not a shock to anyone!

I thought the sound was superb, coming through the official speakers.

And I must agree that the Super Articulation feature is a knockout, and very playable. The demonstrator played me some Sax and Guitar lines and the realism attained without any obvious effort was amazing.

I have always felt if my 3k was stolen, I would replace it with another 3k because I couldn't justify the extra expense of a Tyros 1 for the improvements gained. The Tyros 2 is a different matter; the Super Articulation voices alone are a tangible leap forward that could well justify the extra expense.

Tapas: The PSR's from 1000 up have all got an automatic midi voice re-allocation capability, it's one of the song settings, so the Tyros (1 or 2) must surely have the same facility. This is not a "magic bullet" solution; there are still issues of relative voice levels to deal with. I've used Michael Bedesam's "MidiPlayer" utility to do the remap / remix function with great success. Regarding the "play midi to external" you can certainly (again on all the higher-level PSRs so hopefully on the Tyros) you can route song-playback midi channels to external midi channels; however I don't know if you could mute these tracks on the host keyboard. I'm pretty sure that the track data "sent out" will include all the usual information including patch/bank/volume/pan data.

Hope this helps!

[This message has been edited by MacAllcock (edited 10-02-2005).]