Donny - exactly my point. The field is full of manufacturers who need to "listen". I haven't seen the perfect board come out of the production line yet. There are a lot of users crying out for a sympathetic ear. Here's a sampling of the "state of the art"... just taken from the last 10-12 posts on this board:

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"I'm not really sure why the g70 lacks in the motown/r&b/soul styles. I wasn't finding it and I really did look." (Is that PAR?)

"I have spent a week going through all the styles on my PA1X trying to match up styles with my gig sets and find that not many of the styles on my hard drive are a very good match." (Is that PAR?)

"It's amazing they dont have an extensive style library to back up there wonderful feature packed arrangers....its like running a car with just a gallon of gas....ya cant go to too far." (Is that PAR?)

"It sure would have made my life easier had PSR3000. It looks like even the ones I am finding that might work will need at least one or two of the STS voices changed. Lot of work when you pay this much for a arranger." (Is that PAR?)

"The [PA800] variations seem OK and graduate nicely, but the fills in many styles are just plain awful - major glitches." (Is that PAR?)

"The [PA800] variations worked perfectly for the first 4 bars ( I think it was the Bequine style), by the time it got to the 8th bar it no longer suited, so I just chopped off the last few bars." (Is that PAR?)

"For some bizzare reason , the default Korg setting for fills & breaks is "immediate."
In short, the fill sometimes starts in the middle of the bar, making it glitch.
If you want to get rid of it & have the fill start at the beginning of the next bar, nice & smooth, you'll have to go into style edit." (Is that PAR?)

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Yamaha and all the rest of the developers should start listening and not stop. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to decipher the posts on this board alone. I have begun to believe they don't want the perfect board. Because people would buy them and never upgrade. I'm sure they are fully capable of meeting the "dream list". But if they piece it out they can sell a new keyboard every 18 months for the next 10 years. I just wanted to make sure that if there was a "PAR", we all agreed that it was indeed the target to shoot for.

R/I