I received my Tyros yesterday and spent countless hours yesterday evening exploring the styles on board. I can tell you that MANY of the styles employ the new megavoices and panel sounds, including basic and session styles. The Tyros styles DO sound very different to what we have heard on the other keyboards from Yamaha, much more lively, more professional, very slick and most of all natural. Whether its the improved sequencer resolution, the faster CPU's, the sounds, the bigger style file size or a combination of all of these parameters, the tyros definitely sounds "different" to my psr9000. The dance styles of the tyros are incredible, there are some very up to-date grooves (r&b chart style), the big band styles don't drive you up the wall anymore but actually sound very musical now and there's some great guitar strumming styles as a result of the new sounds. The multipads are also very slick and include some amazing vinyl crackly dj effects, guitar licks and so on. My only criticism so far is the grand piano voice, it sounds slightly noisy and lacking the body of the 9000's standard grand, but that just might be my imagination! Another thing, it seems to take a short while before it warms up and sounds sweet - on first unpacking the tyros and playing it, I felt some of the sounds were very slightly noisy and I could detect a subtle soft distorted edge to certain piano voices (very slightly), but this went away after a few hours playing. This was playing the Tyros through my HiFi, so maybe its was too revealing!
Its early days yet, I've still a lot to explore and will be putting together a full review soon.

Simon


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Simon G.K. Williams
simon@svpworld.com
Creative Music & Multimedia
http://www.svpworld.com
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