I am very disappointed. You would think that after waiting three years for a new model - more than three years if this comes out in the fall in the USA - that Yamaha would add more technology.

What's missing? It looks like we'll have the same crappy harmonizer. This is 2007, and the technology has existed for some time to create decent sounding harmonies.

The PSR3000 has two storage capabilities: Smart Media and USB. The PSR S900 will only have one USB slot. There is no information on how much storage there is in the internal flash drive. If the PSR S900 has the same limited flash memory that the PSR3000 has, and since it won't have a flash media drive, we will have to stick a USB drive into the keyboard before every show. You forget your USB drive, and you can forget a decent performance.

The PSR3000 had aux out. The PSR S900 does not have aux out. That sucks.

Same speakers. That's a disappointment. Even though the ones on the PSR3000 are half-way decent, they should have upgraded.

It seems like in all appliances, from cell phones to mp3 players to televisions, they are, in an astounding way, squeezing more and more technology in at a lower price point. But with Yamaha keyboards, we are having to wait three years to get an extremely modest increment for the same price. They are even taking away features!!

Not that many extra voices! The PSR3000 was quite a lot closer to the Tyros than this is to the Tyros 2.

There is no additional footswitch capability. That is a disappointment.

And Yamaha has been pretty measley about providing new styles for their midline keyboards. They give you this IDC capability, but they don't give you anything to buy. If I hadn't converted styles from Tyros I % II, and if I hadn't received additional offerings for Tyros II, I would be high and dry.

This keyboard is leaving me just that - high and dry. If I weren't a vegetarian, I would be saying, "Where's the beef?"

Now, I will want to know if they took away any more essential functions. Did they give us back the vocal harmonizer on/off switch, effects on/off switch, and voice harmony on/off switch - all of which were on the PSR2000 and glaringly missing from the PSR3000?

If it had been a two year wait, this would be ok, but after three years, this is very disillusioning.

Beakybird