Also, Scott, as far as your idea of selling the PSR3000 and keeping the Midjay for those reasons you stated have been considered. It does sound better to me, my wife and her father (the only three people that have heard them) than the PSR3000. As a matter of fact, as much as I love the Tyros, there are very many sounds that are a lot better on the Midjay. Ketron did good, for sure, for me to make a statement like that.

The thing that I am considering if I keep the PSR3000 is that it is smaller, which means it will fit in a smaller less bulky and easier to move and store Kaces Porter #7 as opposed to the cumbersome Kaces Porter #9 that I use for the Tyros. The weight itself is no issue. The 3000 weighs about 23 pounds and the Tyros weighs only 27 pounds.

The other possible advantages is that I can use my Music Finder Database of around 600 songs and use Michael Bedesems program to put my Tyros song list into the 3000 and all the tunes will show up. For the songs that use a style that is not present on the 3000 you can use a default style which is easy to spot. I used one of the Worship styles that I don't use. I can either then pick a style on the 3000 that will work or, what I have done is take the styles off the Tyros that were used and put them in the user styles on the 3000 and then those tunes are automatically "reconnected" to those styles as they were on the Tyros.

The other possibility is for me to "suck" my styles with song names from my Tyros hard drive and use them on the PSR3000. This kind of works. There is more fiddling around with this though than I like. As the Tyros can have 3 solo voices where the 3000 will only take two. While I have found some styles and voices can be made to sound pretty much like the Tyros, other important voices that I like to use are missing or even though the may have the same name are no where close to the Tyros voice.

That and other obvious things one would notice if they became used to the Tyros and then switched to the 3000.

Don't get me wrong, the PSR3000 is by far the best value for the buck in it's price range, and even better than other kb's that sell for more. My opinion of it has raised some from my original thoughts on it, but it just isn't the same as playing the Tyros. Now that I own both, I think that none of my humble observations can be misconstrued as I believe was the case previously if I made comparisions between the two.

Is the Tyros worth twice the money as compared to the PSR3000? IMHO, it's worth more than twice the price. They are not the same. They are not identical like the original hype was that I originally heard. For the owners thats that disagree with that then I think one possible answer to that is, you don't use the same voices that I like to use.

So, just a few ideas on what I'm up to. I thought I'd post this only because there may be others out there that may be deciding between a Tyros a PSR3000 or whatever. The main thing is, don't take my or anybody elses word for it. Try them yourself and you decide what's important for you, the money involved and all the other options.

Hmmmmmmmm.. This got rather long winded. Sorry 'bout that, but I think that anyone that's interested in the differences will find this useable info.

Best

Scott Langholff