I'm not in love with anything at the moment, Mike. The deal here is this:

I guy I know just bought the Ty and I set it up for him. He's not a real experimenter and he's having trouble with a few anomolies that are Yamaha specific. I think I can rework it to be just fine, but he's frustrated at this juncture. He proposed a trade with my PA80(he really needs the aux outs) so I entertained the thought. I certainly wouldn't use it at work, because ...... you guessed it - NO SPEAKERS, but financially speaking - I'd be foolish to pass on the deal. I can (and probably WILL) sell it in a heartbeat when I'm through with it.

If this deal happens, I'd probably have to force myself to accept a more sequence-dominant envirnment till I get another board that I can use. Big parties are no problem, Fridays are on a grand piano, so the trouble days will be the weekday barrooms and small parties that I play.

Just to clarify.... I still have the same opinion of the Tyros that I always have. It's great for some, but not for me. Don't get excited about that 128 note polyphony either.... the 62 notes in the PA80 outperform it under heavy sustain useage. The drums are what I miss about Yamaha keyboards, but not the sounds ... it's the simplicity of the styles that I like. The Ty has better drum sounds than any other Yamaha to date, but they still have a weird way of rewriting the GM STANDARD to their own design. What IS that drum that sounds like a barking dog anyway ???????