POSE Wrote:

"Hi Gang:

I know lots of you are browseing for anything about the ty3. Sooo give you a bit more to add to the collection.

It's a georgeous keyboard much better layout than the ty2 will be a short "get use to" on the new locations.

Only difference on the front of the board is the power cable. Been changed from the figure 8 end on chord to the more standard 3 prong universal plug. (now the keyboard is grounded to earth for us 110v users in the USA) should be no more mic shocks.

The Screen is much clearer and easy to read but does not like sunlight, gets dimmer with light intensity, also with the lights out on stage much darker and harder to see but still can, maybe a color change for gigger's in dark corners. lol

I'm still experimenting and have had some problems with sound have resolved it somewhat but still not hearing what I should be hearing. I started with the Ms-02's as the sound source. with the sub almost wide open could barely hear it. I checked the eq and cmp setting to make sure they were on the ms-02 settings and finally had to go the the cmp setting edit and change the gain to a higher setting.
This corrected the volume. (by the way they have added a gain meter there to let you see what you're doing, easy too adjust now and keep it out of the red) sound was not all that good, except for 1 new guitar voice (single coil guitar). I spend about 4 hours trying to get the sound as good as the ty2 with Tomwel-Willie-Neville-Scott Yee looking over my shoulder on skype, Got it so so but never good enough to come close to what it should be. So added the z5500 system to the main outs tried it with both amps running together, and tried running each seperate. went to eq and made a user eq setting and fiddled with that for quiet a while and made a user also for cmp. got lots of volume but no "bingo" on sweetening this up. did a re-eniciate and then a factory reset. No changes

Now I'm exausted and ready to put it back in the box, so gave up for the day. This Am after a fitfull sleep of dreaming of pages of eq/comp settings. I turned it on and played with it a bit more, by reversing the L and right out on the main outs it brought the Z5500's up a bit and by cranking the ms-02 sub wide open it added a bit more of midrange. Still I can't hear any Dsp on the pre-set styls and the MFD is as dull as it gets. Concert Grand sounds like it was sampled from casio. So deffinately got something wrong here. Suspect it' may be a glitch or something when loaded at the factory. Also confused by the susposed 80gig harddrive only showing 740.46 Mb of user space. (formated and still got the same. sounds about right for a 75 gig drive ?

Waiting for Yamaha USA to open for business, and going to give Steve Demming a call. really don't think there is anything wrong with the keyboard or it's works, It sound like a ty2 that needs reiniciating.....so everybody down on your knees and pray for ol pose HA HA

I found throughout all the pages of settings many changes from the ty2 and you will have to push a few buttons to get the hang of the new way to navigate the ty3, not difficult but a bit overwhelming for the first couple of hours.

There seems to have been a minor house cleaning by yamaha, and have taking out some things here and there and added a few shortcuts here and there, Just a matter of of getting use to I guess. ie less presets in eq and cmp etc.

Under no surcumstanse don't be put off by what's said here, I'm sure this is just a one of those things.
This still looks like the best version of tyros yet and boy does the converter work great, converted a gig disk file and hands down a huge improvement from hearing them on the ty2.

A bit dissapointed with some the preset styles just a few country and almost all the OTS not even country. When I say dissapointed I mean Yamaha did not do the work for me, still have to change to suit.

All the guitar voices still sound about the same as the ones in my ty2 after being tweaked and saved to registrations. BUT the single coil is almost worth the extra money for the ty3 itself plus having a brand new keyboard.

Better shut up or may end up eating more crow than I can hold...........pose"