My new Roland Sonic Cell PRO has Drums in league with the Motif line and it was 800 bucks, tax included. My point is that it wouldn't take Yamaha tons of money either to put a few outstanding Drum kits and other cutting edge features such as USB 2.0 etc., like those found in my econmically priced Sonic Cell PRO - into the T2 successor. In other words, Yamaha's excuse about it costing too much (which they have tended to use when it comes to adding professional sounds and other features into their keyboards, Motifs included) should be no excuse at all. So if a Yamaha rep happens to give you that excuse it will unfortunately be an erroneous one. The Reps have to oblige the higher ups and say what they want them to say or they run the risk of getting canned. Which on the one hand is not such a bad option when the company you work for is being less than forthright with the public. Whichever company that may be that is. I'm not pointing fingers, just pointing out some things.

I mean c'mon. A Tyros2 costs more than a fully loaded Motif XS"8" already. The T2 successor shouldn't have to cost an arm and a leg "on top" of it already costing more than the TOTL 88 note Workstation Motif XS should it? I didn't think so. And if it does it will be a travesty in my opinion. And needless to say I will pass on getting one. >> That you can count on.

Mike