The current trend in arranger keyboards seems to be the reduction of controls - knobs, buttons etc. I don't know what others think but I for one deplore this trend. I would like to see a few more controls and I don't mean touch screens. One of the reasons I haven't moved from the PSR-740 is the disappearance of the telephone type keypad which allows me to select voice, style etc. directly by number. Several times I've played a PSR-2000 and had to fight my way around the menus on the idiot lantern they've so thoughtfully provided. At least on the 2000 they've added more registration buttons (4 on the 740) but that's still not enough because sooner or later you have to switch banks (you can use the foot switch but that's not very practical). This may be OK for playing at home but when you're out on a gig you want to be able to move pretty rapidly from one scenario to the next, particularly if you are playing several choruses of the same tune and want to switch instruments between choruses. For my money, they can take out the multi pads as I never use them, or even make them programmable so you can use them for registrations as well. One of my favourite keyboards was the old PSR-510. Everything was on buttons and you could switch very quickly. Only problem with it was that it ran out of steam too soon and couldn't manage the polyphony. (Mind you, the 740 exhibits the same problem. There's a 28MHz processor in there which is running at only 7MHz. You can't speed it up as the support chips are too slow). The way things are going, everything will be displayed on a screen with no controls on the keyboard except for a mouse. Maybe this is the reason for all the real estate on the Tyros. They're getting us accustomed to a mouse pad.