In advance I will just want to add that this will probably not be a fair comparison. My point is that the Tyros is ready to play out of the box. This is due to a great effort done by Yamaha's software team. But unlike Yamaha, the Roland team cut corners, when releasing the G-70. They unfortunately handed over an "unfinished" G-70 to the end-users. By "unfinished" I mean the styles, the user registrations and the one touch settings were not optimized/balanced. Therefore the G-70 is not optimized like the Tyros. So IMHO it makes absolutely no sense to just make a 1-1 comparison between these instruments.

I have collegues, who have been working with both instruments for months, and lately more and more musicians are saying the same thing: "the Tyros impressed me from the first day, and the G-70 didn't impress me until after some time". Interesting observation, right? Some of my collegues even go so far as saying that after playing the Tyros since october 2005, they now start to loose interest and focusing more and more on the G-70, because they kind of grow with the instrument (Please don't flame me for saying that. I am not saying that the G-70 is better than the Tyros!).

Personally I regard the G-70 as an unpolished diamond. Once you get it, you will have the polish it. Your ability to do that will be absolutely essential for the result you get! I have heard musicians in Denmark playing the G-70. They have played the instrument for several months, but they didn't impress me at all! And that's because they haven't spend the time to tweak the instrument. Or maybe they just don't know how to?!? So the Tyros is a great instrument, if you don't have the time and/or the ablilty to tweak your arranger. Of course there are several other issues to address, when comparing the instrument, but these issues are disccused elsewhere

What am I saying here? Well, I could just imagine you coming back saying that the Tyros sounded better than the G-70. If you do, you now know, that it is in no way strange... .)

NB. On the G-70 user club website you can download styles optimized for the G-70. And you can download user registrations optimized for the G-70. Using these files will definitely make the G-70 sound much better.

Have a nice road trip

[This message has been edited by weissefar (edited 07-12-2006).]