Manufacturers do not sabotage us-they sabotage themselves.

Case in point. I was THIS close to picking up an MM8 but there were two things wrong.

One-You couldn't pan anything.

Two-NO Timpani patch,or ,so I initially thought. Imagine my surprise when,months later, I found out from someone that the timp patch WAS on the MM8 BUT it was filed under "organs".How stoopid is that?

Eventually it all worked out because I decided once and for all to jump into the computer-based world where,for slightly more $$ I plan on getting a complete(at least to me) rig.

BUT,that's still X amount of bucks that Yamaha never saw from me.