Yea, as I said earlier, I had a MoES6 for about two weeks and decided I just was not going to fight that outrageous OS for years and took it back and got a Tyros, which I REALLY LIKE. Is it perfect? ABSOLUTELY NOT, BUT I find it immensley easier to use and work with. The two main drawbacks don't bother me because I record directly to a digital multitrack hard disk so I don't care about the no song position pointer in the sequencer and I don't care that it won't select the DSP setups for a voice when the voice is selected from inside an external sequencer such as Sonar.

I remember that incident with Bad Mister and thinking how he essentially attacked a customer seeking help with a non-intuitive board and if that was their attitude then I probably didn't want to keep the MoES anyway. The Yamaha support people seem to have a problem with anyone who suggests that perhaps there might be something that wasn't well designed in one of their boards. Another one attacked a guy over on the new Awareness Engine Arranger site when he questioned the lack song position pointers in a supposedly Pro keyboard built in sequencer in the Tyros. On the other hand, Korg can be even worse; I have no experience with Roland so I don't know about them personally but what I hear isn't all that good.

AJ, you might want to look into the Yamaha VL-70m sound module which has 256 solo instrument sounds in it. As is it is OK but if you change out the original ROM chip with the Patchman ROM chip it gets REALLY GOOD. It will work with a keyboard controller and a BC3 or with a WX5, WX7, or WX11 wind controller. If you go to the Patchman site you can listen to short mp3 clips of most of the instruments so you can at least get some idea of what they would actually sound like.

Tom

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