At 27 lawyers, it seems to me that they might be spending more money on lawyers than they'll ever recoup from selling their styles. Then again at $2.00 per style..., that can't be right can it ? Either way, no thanks Yamaha, if I need new ones I'll make my own, and when purchasing in the future, after all this nonsense and the fact that my defective nearly brand new 2000 is already in the shop for almost 3 weeks now for repairs ( the most important ones from OS problems that will not likely be addressed at this time- ie. my mixer settings won't always recall the way I saved them in the reg. memories), I'll stick with Korg or Roland. I've learned my lessons well here. My next dollars at this point would be better spent on a good hardware sampler or sampling workstation anyway for my composing needs, because in spite of what I thought before, I actually like my PA80 better for live performance. The PSR is pretty much useless for me anyway for live venues if I can't get my sounds to come up with all of the mixer settings that I 'saved' in reg memory. As annoying as it was, with the way it used it's own unique midifile system, and because of the lack of any company support at all, the MZ2000 I had was much more stable and reliable than the PSR2000. It always recalled my mixer settings perfectly. It had real synth edit capabilities too. The styles weren't as good as Yamaha's but then again compared to the ones on my PA80, the PSR2000's styles don't do all that much for me either, so either way I'd be making my own. In essence I got rid of the MZ2000 to wind up with a PSR2000 that has less features that are useful to me and isn't ( for me anyway ) as user friendly or easy to use. The last time I sent my 740 out for repair it was gone for 11 weeks. I wonder how long this one will be gone. Every day that passes lowers it's resale value.

AJ



[This message has been edited by Bluezplayer (edited 02-26-2002).]
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