I was soooo excited about this thing coming out, but why oh why would they have cut such basic corners? Let's repeat a few of these:

-Why is there still NO XLR input w/phantom power? $3500 and more for such a board, with a ton of stuff for vocalist, but yet no industry standard XLR? Even Roland added an XLR combo jack to their lastest board...Simply dissapointing.

-Why go to the trouble of including a HD recorder if it is only to only allow 2 or even 4 tracks (which I don't believe it even will do that)...You have now got things out there like the Fusion that has at least 8 tracks and it's only selling for $1600...How much more would it really have cost them to allow this new Tyros the ability to do 8 tracks rather than 1, 2, 3 or even 4...8 is a minimum standard as far as I would be concerned...and they already have all the technoligy to make this happen...I can't imagine that it would have cost them a dime to implement more tracks...I hope they are able to resolve this with a future OS update...taking it from 2 to 8 tracks...a huge blunder...some don't even care if it has a HD recorder, so they think it's a waist anyways, but those of us who would love it and would buy it due to this addition also will not be happy because the number of tracks makes it a waiste as well...come on Yamaha, step up to the plate on this one or simply leave it off the board...don't tease us with such a great feature, and then completly limit it.

-As MANY have stated...76 keys

-How about either a nice touch screan or use more of the space provided to enlarge the screan...that flip up screen still has A LOT of black space that could have been used for extra screen real estate.

-And one last thing...how about a good cup holder attachment for my coffee mug and tip jar

[This message has been edited by acoustictones (edited 09-23-2005).]