It is cool, but I don't want to give Yamaha too much credit just yet - they really should develop OPT control panels like the Tyros' for their XG sound set, which would work with a wide number of Yamaha keyboards and be extremely useful. And it would be nice if they would provided OPT panels for their (current or former?) "flagship" arranger: the Yamaha 9000 Pro, which has been neglected in the software area by Yamaha. And all those great Yamaha plug-in control panels for the PLG-series expansion cards still only work with XGWorks... those would be handy as OPT's as well.

Yup, it's great to see Yamaha on the ball with their OPT support of the Tyros, the Motif and a handful of others. Why they can't seem to get it together with at least one decent XG OPT panel is one of my concerns.