I have all the current ones already and probably so do a lot of other users. I can almost understand Yamaha's point on some of this, as far as you pay for a certain board and you are entitled to the styles on
that board and not the others, if they were reasonable about it. I might be willing to pay a FAIR price for an entire set of styles from a different board, especially if they were properly converted to match my board as well as the internal styles do, but as far as paying 43 dollars for 6 styles.. Nahhhh ... I really don't think so.

Lotsa luck on this one Yamaha. When Yamaha releases a board with new styles if I REALLY wanted more Yamaha styles for my XG works
software, I could simply rent the board for the day at a similar price and get ALL of the styles, even if it meant recording them into midi tracks and later converting them back. I'm not going to bother with that though, and "pirate" Yamahas coveted copywritten treasures, I already have more styles than I need anyway, but the
point is, it's not worth the effort to do it.

I think that it's customers might have been better served if Yamaha had instead diverted all of the resources, time, and energy spent on this issue ( not to mention the money they probably spent on legal fees ) trying to resolve the chip issues and problems in the 2000. This especially after the board was initially advertised as upgradable via flash rom. Has anyone in the US even gotten an upgraded chip ?

Korg AJ



[This message has been edited by Bluezplayer (edited 04-02-2002).]