I've really enjoyed getting to know the 2000 today. The styles are really great. There are many brand new styles and as I suspected the unplugged type and balad with guitar strums are just great. I especially enjoyed the 60's pop Beatle's style! The new feature of playing a song and also playing a style in sync is just fantastic. Finally having a Yamaha with a built in sequencer that you don't have to record direct to disc is a real blessing. Yes, the 9000 does this too, but not any of the 500, 600 or 700 series could do this. Song recording is very easy and saving the registrations to flash memory is so much of an improvement over the 740. If you turn of the 740 for an extended period of time, you will loose your registrations unless you have backed them up to floppy disk. This is not a problem with the 2000.
George Kaye
Kaye's Music Scene
Reseda, California