Wow! That really is a blast from the past..

Those drums are unmistakably from a Yamaha totl arranger. The Tyros was a slight bump up in quality in my opinion and the T2 a slight bump more up in quality. >> If the T3 drums sound anything like the 9000PRO, T1, or T2 drums Yamaha can forget about referring to the T3 drums as "new". They may as well call them "re-hashed" instead.

Notice in the Clarinet demo the background Brush/Jazz Drum Kit. It seems Yamaha attempted to keep them way in the background at a lower than normal volume. But what I did hear of them was very similar sounding to the T1/T2 Brush/Jazz Drum kit in my opinion. Which is a bad sign, right off the bat, to their claim of all "new" Drums on the T3 in my opinion.

Let's face it, Yamaha's T3 gold mine is NOT America, Canada or even Asia, for that matter. Yamaha's T3 gold mine is in Europe plain and simple. And if our friends over the pond aren't too particular or judgemental in how they perceive a $4,500 keyboard's Drum Kits are suppose to sound (as far as quality goes), then Yamaha evidently will see no pressing need to put in stellar sounding Drum Kits in their new Flagship arranger - the innocuous T3. Innocuous, it seems, to the Europeans anyway.

But again, if they do rake in the dough with the T3 over in Europe, they will most likely have satisfied their 'status quo' in projected T3 sales, and apparently could care less how Americans, Canadians, or Asians feel towards the T3's less than stellar (in other words - not up to professional standard) Drum Kits sound like, if indeed, they turn out to be average - again. In other words, as long as they can please the majority of Europeans they will see themselves in Fat City with no real worries to speak of. >> I could have said: Americans, Canadians, and Asians be damned; but that would have been a little harsh, although, may very well be Yamaha's corporate perception of the situation. Hopefully not, for our sakes, right? And instead, we will find out that the T3 drums are indeed a big improvement over the T1/T2 drums. Time will tell all as they say.

We shall see, or rather "hear" for ourselves soon enough, I reckon. >> That is, if Yamaha gets with it and produces a demo or two that showcases some of the T3's Drum Kits. Again, we shall see what Yamaha will unfold in the next month or two or three as far as sound demos go... I'm not gonna hold my breath waiting in anticipation though. It's off my short list no matter what.

Yamaha's loss my gain I suppose. [img]http://www.synthzone.com/ubbs/wink.gif[/img]

Best,
Mike


[This message has been edited by keybplayer (edited 08-17-2008).]