You know, its difficult for me to demo the psr 3000 as they are sold in the shops I went to. So I listened last night to a demo on a psr user website where they placed a review of the psr 3000 - other than on the yammie site (the very long and polished demosong) they had single styles and a few voice-riffs to listen to, which were unfortunately quite distorted but more revealing of what this keyboard can do.

The difference to a motif es is very noticeable but was expected: 64 compressed MB wave rom (psr 3000) vs. 96 MB (motif es). Some state the drums of the psr 3000 have a more solid sound than even the tyros 1.
From comparing the psr-demo on the website with my midjay at home I had the impression that some drumparts of the psr (cymbals, hihat, ride) were inferior to the midjays. The psr-toms and snare were more defined like you could hear the skin of the drum, but in the overall mix just no punch. I read posts of people trying to reinforce bass and drums like using alternate outputs and another rompler attached to it of the psr 3000 which makes me think again...

Tough choice really: I think the midjay has some very good single sounds and punch in the drum and bass department, just no variety of sounds, and in the mix I am missing something, canīt describe it. Sure itīs not made for my purposes and I think it is very good sounding for live omb jobs. By the way, I realised some serious hickups when firing off the groove loops and changing between sections. Strange.

So, well, after all this blabla from my side: Anybody out there who went the route from a motif es (which sounds, arpeggio and button concept I adore but get lost in) to a psr board for composing music? I am unsecure if an arranger board keeps your creative juices flowing for songwriting - to form something which is not at once detected as yammie style soandso. Arpeggios seem to give you more freedom but it takes ages until I finish a song - thats frustrating for a hobbie musician like I am. Or is it better to go the pa-50 route for songwriting?

Thanks for reading my stuff and helping me with some experience from your side.

Best regards

Heinrich