Hi Scott

If you take another look at my post you will notice that I edited it and there is no mention of me selling it now.

As it is, I really don't need a Tyros and PSR3000 and a Midjay. I can easily do with the Tyros which I love. I got the 3000 and the Midjay with the idea of having a lot of time to test the different possibilities of how I might use them, the pros and cons of each etc, etc.

After I wrote the post and mentioned selling it, I sat down to it again and thought, this is well worth keeping. I then deleted any mention of selling it. I may change my mind. I still have a few things up in the air about whether I need and/or want a PSR3000 or a Midjay when I have a Tyros.

I don't really need to sell the 3000 to get a keyboard controller that I'd be interested in. The ones I mentioned sell for around $250.

As far as the dual function of the buttons for styles and voices, that's why I would suggest using the Midjay itself to operate the style intro, ending, fills and variations and then use the controller keyboard to control which voice I would be using. Then there would be no issue of the dual function buttons. Although, really like anything else, if one got used to using the Midjay's buttons for everything you quickly get used to it.

As far as reaching the controls, they will be in about the same place as on an arranger kb if it is placed behind the SKINNY keyboard controller. The same with the LCD screen. It's plenty easy enough to see. Certainly easier to see for me than the PSR3000. The letters are not quite as big as on the Tyros screen, but you can see everything you need to quite easily.

The only real trade off for me was there is no right hand harmony which I love to use with my 3 layered sax and brass sections. This is incredibly effective for In The Mood or anything that you want to sound like a full horn section on fast moving passages.

Also, I thought I might add that I played everything as it was when I got it. I did no tweaking of any style or voice. While I know that can be done, I didn't really see any need for it and besides that, I didn't really want to. I'd rather play music than press a bunch of buttons.

So, at the present, I'm back in the test mode and trying to decide if I will keep the Midjay and the PSR3000 or sell one or the other or both.

The Midjay is a different beast. I approach it differently than the Tyros. I play it more like when I played the Lowrey home organs, I use the settings that are their with no tweaking and screwing around with that.

So that's my current update as of today anyway.haha

Scott Langholff