I don't think the other guy who posted knows much about the psr9000...because I can record songs to my 8 gig hard drive and don't have to have any floppy in drive to do it!!!! Maybe he is talking about lower psr models, but you were asking about psr9000 I thought.
Yes I can pick any performance and not change style. In addition if I am using any of the 500 registrations, I can hit the freeze button and set it up so it only changes what I want... for example... change only performances and not style or mic settings, or tempo,ect... I have complete command over what I want to change or keep the same. The performances can be changed at will without effecting the style... by performances you mean part select and voice selection right?
I have the psr9000 and at first I too thought the styles were simple but there are 16 beat styles on it too, but default is simple one when you turn it on ... but as others say you can go to psr sytles yahoo board and download thousands of free ones converted to 9000.
The thing that I love about the 9000 is the PADS!!! 60 banks of them that can play solo's or back up stuff, drum stuff, guitar riffs, paino stuff,ect... and it is chord sensitive. I downloaded PADS that others have made and WOW!!! I push a PAD and Harmonica solo, another and SAX backup... in addition to all the breaks ect... so it breaks up the song in so many ways.
126 poly compared to 64 poly of other instruments.
The registrations are cool too... you can NAME them and it sets up Song,and all other settings with one button.
Sampler is fun too and with added 65 meg for 12 minutes of sampling, download any WAV file and add to song or make your own. In fact when I played with guitar player and singer I sampled her whole song and played it backed and others couldn't tell if she was singing the song again, because it sounded exactly the same.
Video out to TV set allows others to see the chords you are playing, so they can play with you....or display lyrics, or psr9000 displays chords of any midi song.
Vocializer is alot of fun, 7 pages of all different types... women,mickey mouse,country types,ect...
Also the DATA base is cool with 600 songs you can arrange by Type or tempo.
I played the psr9000 in store and at first I didn't like it ... because it had so many buttons ect... I think a prs9000 owner can advise you better than someone who plays it a few minutes or an hour or so. I kept returning to the store because the psr9000 haunted me ... and the more I played it, the more I liked it. And it continues to grow on me the more I play it, with all it's possiblities, unlike other keyboards I played and owned in the past.
Mars had clearance sale so I picked up the floor model for 1600. Good luck in your choice.



[This message has been edited by rgtaa (edited 10-26-2001).]