Strangely, spalding, no, not really... Big wash pads with a slow solo over them aren't really my bag. I am not sure why, but it seems to me that a large percentage of what I've heard demoed on the T3 tends to be these kinds of things rather than more uptempo dance things that the T2 demos emphasized.

I wish there were more T3 stuff out there that showed off the great Mega guitar stuff in the styles (might make some of the audio loop fanboys sit up and realize how close you can get without all the limitations that audio guitars impose) and the new drumkits. I guess that perhaps Yamaha simply thought everybody would remember these from the T2 and simply take it for granted. But memories are pretty short around here. There are still some VERY good style demos from the T2 (FAR more than has been released by Yamaha for the T3 - odd decision, IMO) that display its' impressive guitar capabilities in style mode (and the T3 has an even better guitar NTT, so why they don't feature this beats me).

But this demo, while very nice, doesn't really impress the same way that the Audya ones do, as simply a great machine for general pop and dance music. But much of the blame lies in Yamaha not spending as much time and effort as they did on the T2 showing off it's capabilities in a practical setting.... I mean, this T3 stuff is all well and good, but I wouldn't really be playing much of this at a gig! There is probably ten times as many official T2 demos up at Yamaha's Tyros sites than there is T3. And most of it is stuff (like the Audya demos) that we are likely to need and want to play.

Personally, I think the Audya would have FAR less gushing over it, were the T3 styles demoed as effectively. To be honest, if Yamaha or some third party produced a kick ass multi velocity real drum kit with decent punch, that played Yamaha styles without much tweaking necessary, as a TVN sample load for the sampler, it would give the MUCH more expensive Audya a real run for its' money...