Al, the reason I suggested a possible polyphony increase by using software on a hardware/software based instrument such as a keyboard is because it IS possible to increase the polyphony on, let's say, a computer's hardware based sound card. For instance, the Creative Sound Blaster Live! released several years ago had an original factory hardware based polyhony of 512 if I remember correctly. >> Yep... 512 capable notes of polyphony playback on a dinky little sound card back in 1998??? Go figure, right Al? Anyway, Creative apparently didn't think 512 notes of polyphony was enough for Sound Blaster Live! Users - (tell that same thing to Yamaha and the rest of 'em and they'll just laugh at us, right? - so Creative, by way of a software update, increased the Sound Blaster Live! polyphony to 1024! For a $100 sound card mind you! And here we are today in 2008 where Yamaha, Korg, Roland, and the rest of them have convinced all of us that 128 is "muy excellent e muchas buenas, si?" (and likely ALL we'll ever get for years to come if they had their druthers right? )

Anyway, to make a long story short"er" , the reason Creative was able to increase a hardware based sound card's polyphony through just a software update >> (from what I've gathered anyway), was that the hardware DSP chip used in the Sound Blaster Live! was supposedly a very powerful sound chip made by E-mu and it apparently had reserve scalability - being so powerful and all - and the software update utilized the reserve power on the hardware chip and was effectively able to double the sound card's polyphony from 512 to 1024! JUST through the use of software...

Now understand, most likely the hardware chips Yamaha used in the T2 had reached the limit of its performance and efficiency, evidenced by the fact the T2 slow screen redraw issues compared to the T1. Yamaha probably used similar powered chips in the T2 that they did in the T1, but because of the T2's extra cpu intensive features such as direct Audio recording and the Sample-"player", etc., the chips on the T2, needless to say, were apparently maxed out in my opinion, with the T2 even considered by me to be "underpowered" for all the features it has. >> Same scenario that happened to the PSR9000PRO most likely as well, only this time it's in a 61 key flavor. [img]http://www.synthzone.com/ubbs/wink.gif[/img] So what I am saying is, the T2 would NOT be scalable and heaven knows if the T3 will or will not be.
Or if Yamaha even takes CPU/DSP chip scalability into consideration when they build their keyboards.
Or for that matter Korg, since we're talking about OS 2.0 for the PA2XPRO? [img]http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/Confused/redface-oops-6.gif[/img]

So in theory, I think it could be done if the manufacturers took chip scalability into consideration. [img]http://www.synthzone.com/ubbs/cool.gif[/img] Who knows if any of them do or not though. [img]http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/Confused/sorry.gif[/img]

Best,
Mike

[This message has been edited by keybplayer (edited 08-28-2008).]