It has been my experience that Yamaha does an excellent job supporting some of it's "pro" line . One need only visit the Motifator site and that becomes very evident. Yamaha, in tandem with 3rd party companies ( keyfax.. etc ) offers add on software for the Motif, R7000, etc. Also, their forum is admin'ed by A Yamaha employee(s)

Unfortunately, my experience with their arranger gear has not been the same. Twice when my arrangers went down for the count in botyh cases I waited almost 3 months for a solution / repair . One problem is that the authorized repair center was swamped with work. Another is that getting parts from Japan seemed to take forever. Well, in the second instance, I got tired of waiting and I sent my PSR2000 back for a full refund. I have told this story here enough times as it is, so no need to rehash the details. Through all of this I remained cordial and very courteous, except I got a tad more agressive toward the end the second time around.

My dealer shared in my frustration. It was his opinion that based on his dealings with Yamaha, that he concurs with my thoughts on Yamaha after - support on it's pro line vs it's arranger line. George Kaye and I even discussed this.

No sour grapes here. I am very happy with my Yamaha Motif ( which I got when I sent my PSR2k back ) . I liked many things about the 2000 I had ( and the 1000 I briefly replaced it with ) and I will buy another Yamaha arranger when the time is right ( maybe the Tyros, maybe the PSR2100 ). Also, a plus side to the lack of 3rd party software / support from Yamaha itself for arrangers is that there are very creative arranger users such as Michael P Bedesem, Brian Miles, Simon Williams, to name a few, that have provided and freely shared add on software , styles, webspace, etc that they created themselves. The Yamaha arranger user community to me is an excellent group of people overall, who share so much and for that reason alone make the experience of owning a Yamaha arranger that much better. Also, I see that Steve Denning ( from yamaha ) posts here, and that is a step in the right direction as well.

My experiences with Korg were equally poor in the days when I owned a bug ridden M1, but that is many years ago, and I've needed nothing at all for my PA80 ( mine has worked great since I opened the box ), so I cannot pass judgement on today's state of affairs.

John, I think you're gonna love the 2000 btw. Enjoy it. There still isn't anything like it at it's price that I've seen to date.

AJ

[This message has been edited by Bluezplayer (edited 02-27-2003).]