PSR3000 appears to be the keyboard of the year, unfortunately. I say that because a 76-note "PSR3000 Pro" would've won easily if such a thing existed.

The fiasco of the year goes to Yamaha for producing a new PLG piano card, the PLG150-AP, and producing voice data to go with it for every PLG-compatible keyboard except one: the 9000 Pro. Why does Yamaha continue to single out the 9000 Pro like this? Yamaha reps then made asses of themselves trying to dismiss this omission. They damaged their credibility with this incident in keyboard forums across the web... even non-9000 Pro owners took note. The further divergence of Yamaha's "synth" and "portable" keyboard departments this year not only made the situation with non-support for the 9000 Pro worse but also made the chances of a new pro arranger coming from Yamaha even less likely. After the way they've crapped on 9000 Pro owners, who would trust Yamaha to support a new pro arranger anyway?
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Jim Eshleman