Hi Scott

In addition to all the other excellent points already made here, I thought I would mention that I do not believe it is physically possible for the MFD (in it's current form) to call up records in removable storage. According to Michael Bedesem, who understand a lot about how these things work, the MFD relies on an internal numbering system. This numbering system gets altered every time any style file changes anywhere on the hard drive or USB memory. After any change, the MFD will be linked incorrectly because the internal numbering system will be off. Unless Yamaha completely re-writes the software for the MFD, it won't work with external (changeable) media.

Michael B does read these posts, so I am sure he will correct me if I am wrong. I sure hope Yamaha will fix this. They have had ample time, and customer demand, to to do this.

Tom G.

[This message has been edited by TomTomSF (edited 10-30-2005).]