Posted by: "acoustictones"
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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.
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AMEN TO ALL THAT! Excellent point about not even including an XLR mic input. You'd think for the price they'd at least include this. Especially considering they always glorify their harmonizers.

Im with you about the HD recorder as well. Why go through the trouble of even adding that if they limit the tracks to a measly (2). I bet when they release the Tyros3, they'll add the extra 6 tracks and completely jack the price for that feature alone.

Granted the board will probably sound great, but man for the price I think the spec list falls short when comparing features against cost.

That's why I'm waiting for the T2 to actually be released. Then I'll buy an original Tyros1 after those prices drop to what's reasonable

Don't get me wrong I still love arrangers, but geeez oh man why in the hell are prices on arrangers so JACKED???

I don't want to piss anyone off (probably will), but Yammie has some nerve selling the PSR-3000 for that price. Especially considering it still has basic voice editing, no aftertouch, cheap (and I mean cheap) construction when compared to other boards in the same price category. Probably the most sorry set of pitch and modulation wheels I've ever seen (they're the same as on the PSR-2000/2100, and they're just crap)

It does however have some killer sounds, great drawbars, and other cool features, but the overall construction quality of the PSR-3000 does not justify its cost. (just my opinion). If they had a rack version (which would sell for less) I'd buy that without batting an eye.

Squeak



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