I just thought I'd quote this just in case you came to your senses and deleted it!

Seriously, though... thank you. I've never had a problem with Yamaha's, in fact, I'm very envious of many of the OS features and quite a lot of the sound-set, but my primary goal is playing live, and replicating the 'live' band experience for my audiences, and until Yamaha decide to do a true 'pro' model, with punchier drums and a choice of
different 'pro' keyboard sizes, like they provide for the Motif users, sadly I'm not even able to contemplate one.

Maybe Yamaha will address this one day if they are able to get over their 9000Pro jitters, but probably they consider guys like me too small a market to be worth going after. Shame, really, as so little needs to be done to make an effective live sounding arranger, but at least they DO focus exclusively on the one market, something other manufacturers MIGHT be better off financially doing.

But sadly, some of the best professional OS features are on an arranger voiced specifically for home use, and some of the more 'pro' built and voiced arrangers (especially Roland) have what I would, at best, call 'home' orientated OS's. Hopefully, ONE of them will address the other's needs, or I'll be permanently stuck in limbo, but forced by my job to use the 'live'-est sounding arranger despite it's shortcomings.

[This message has been edited by Diki (edited 09-28-2007).]