Andrea,
An excellent and well balanced review...thanks.
Terry

DNJ,
I hear what you are saying about playing one first. I have found though until one has it in their studio for a week or so and really has a chance to play with one, it's hard to judge.

In the music stores here, usually there are a half dozen other "players" blasting different boards and playing the same 3 chords for an hour, so it's hard to even hear what is going on....not to mention the 15 year old guitar players wailing away on some distorted mediocre lead lick.

Fortunately most places that sell these boards offer a 30-45 day refund policy in the US. So if I really hate the Tyros, I'll send it back and look for a different board, which at this point would either be the Genesys or the Ketron SD1.
Terry