After several weeks now I'm starting to get used to the T3 a bit more.
So far:

THE GOOD;
Screen display nice.

Wind instrument SA2s good stuff.

Guitars are fun.

Organ sounds have much more bite than the T2.

THE ORDINARY;
The over all sound (notwithstanding the new and better voices) is only marginally better, if at all, when compared side by side with my tweaked T2 IMO.

Some of the Music Finder Set-ups and OTS are inappropriate and poorly balanced (a little rushed to market), IMO the T2 was more thoroughly finished.

Quite a few of my registrations have not transferred well to the T3 despite the use of Yamaha’s conversion program and thus I find I’m using quite a number of the T2 styles to manually restore these registrations to their previous functionality.

The layout could have been much better i.e. the "Registration Bank" should have been placed next to the sliders at least and the data entry wheel moved beside the screen on the right.

THE BAD;
The T3 would have to have the worst Vocal sounds of any “top of the range” arranger keyboard on the market.

I really don't like the new "Concert Grand" - BIG let down (mid to upper mid range –sounds cheap) it certainly has not lived up to its promise, particularly when played with clean amplification/speaker sys.
The T2 Live Grand is way better IMO (I'm quite fond of the new "Cocktail Piano" however).

If you use fast registration/preset changes where you need left hand control - it’s not the best. I’ve had to change nearly all my reg’s to single song per bank and have them foot controlled where possible as a work around – needs more foot controller sockets.


NEEDS;
Additional foot controller ¼ “ sockets as “Kingfrog” mentioned above.

Better ergonomics / design.

A really decent Piano voice, although I doubt Yamaha will ever do this, after all they put their effort into better Irish pipes instead of a decent piano, they obviously viewed that as a greater need.


COMMENTS;
Some of the new voices are really good and I’m enjoying them a lot.
I will enjoy the T3 more and more as time goes by no doubt (notwithstanding the obvious annoyances mentioned).

If Yamaha however, wants people to upgrade their T3s to their next machine, be it T4 or whatever, they will really need to deliver more than they have from the T2 to the T3, as I feel many people will not be so quick to upgrade next time around, I know I won’t.
Next time I will, for the first time in a very long time, actually consider other manufacturers for my next upgrade and really do a thorough audition of everything available.

Chris.