Hi Don,

I guess for me the styles aren't that big of a deal anyway, as I mainly use them as starting points and scratch pads for ideas for compositions rather than rely on them for live performances. I keep the PA80 though because I can't find an arranger that has sounds that I like better overall, and because it is a pretty good synth in it's own right, for an arranger that is. Some of the fills are a bit out of whack though with the main variations and I could see why a gigging solo act musician would not care for them, although I still think that a majority of its styles are among the best and detailed that I've heard. In addition, preliminary information suggests than in the new O/S, each variation will now have its own fill, for a total of 4 fills per style. If this is correct, hopefully some of the fills will match the styles a bit better

I would have to agree with you though about ease of use, as I feel that accessing some of the PA80s functions in a real time live performance would be distracting if not difficult. I have spent a few hrs now playing around with the PSR 2000 and I can appreciate the ease of accessing its' functions as opposed to the PA80, particularly if I were to go "live" with it. While I see some improvements, I still don't like the patterns as much as Korg's overall, but in a live setting I could certainly live with them. The thing sounds pretty good to me too, better than my 740 i think, but I still think I prefer many of the PA80 sounds just a bit better overall. Still, I am likely going to purchase one after I sell my 740. The one thing I didnt really delve into very much was synth editing. What I did see of it was very very basic stuff, ( adjust eg parametres, modulations, attacks, decays, etc ). Does it have more detailed synth editing or is that it? This isn't that big of a deal to me because with the xg edit function on my XG works software I can change a multitude of parameters, but I wonder if it's worth upgrading from my 740 in that respect? Also, being able to fully edit patches away from the computer, along with the ability to save those changes as user voices, is rather desirable for me at times. If there isn't more deatiled editing internally than what i saw, I'd also be curious to see if the parameters that I can change via xg editing ( pretty close to pro synth editing ) could be saved in a user voice, much in the same way as those parameters can be saved in a midi file and later reproduced via that midifile from within the 740 itself without using the software. That would definetly make me want to upgrade from the 740 if this were the case. I have never cared for the stock hard / overdriven electric guitar patches in the Yamaha series, but with xg editing I found that I can really get some good sounds, along with some pretty nasty synth sounds too

AJ




[This message has been edited by Bluezplayer (edited 11-05-2001).]