While we're beefing about Yamaha, I've got another beef. On all the higher keyboards, PSR740, 1000, 2000 etc., the panel organs do not have touch response. With all the other instruments, including the XG organs, touch response is optional with a button press. I find this a real pain. Like Scott I invariably use full fingering. In fact as far as I am concerned the other modes might as well not be there. I like to feed quiet chords in the left hand while playing the melody and more chords in the right hand at a higher velocity. You can't do this with the panel organs as the lower notes often obliterate the higher ones. So I can't use these instruments and this annoys me as the main reason I bought the 740 was for the organs, and the panel organs are richer than the XG organs. What's worse is that there are a lot of resonances around the lower middle of the keyboard just where the little finger of the left hand is finding some nice notes to trigger the bass notes of the style. You can hear these resonances with external speakers as well. I asked Yamaha about this and their reply was:


The reason you cannot have Touch Response on the Organ Voices on the PSR-740
is because a real organ is not touch sensitive. When Yamaha engineers
developed the 740 which is a higher end model they wanted the realism of
the real thing. The Organ Flutes feature which has the draw bars and other
organ like parameters was added to also help shape the sounds of a real
organ.


This is a load of poop. There's a button right there on the keyboard marked "Touch Response" If you want realism, hit the button and turn it off. You can do this with the XG organs so why not the panel organs. It has nothing to do with keyboard itself but is part of the tone generator. A midi sequence will give the same volume regardless of velocity. The same problem also occurs with Technics and, for all I know, Roland as well. So I ain't gonna buy another keyboard unless I get touch response on ALL instruments (just like on my humble PSR220).