Correct Dennis....and, you were not one of those who claimed the Mediastation could play a Tyros2 style better than the Tyros2 itself.

However, I'm glad you wish to at least try and see how well the Mediastation performs this task...at least you are willing to try, rather than be like the others and boast but not back up their claims.

You would think the manufacturer would be leaping at a chance to prove how much better their instrument can play another instrument's style, especially after making these claims many times on this forum.

So, it's going to take an owner, like yourself, to showcase the Mediastation...personally, since you are basically doing a clinicians job, I think you should be compensated in some way, especially if you can get the instrument to sound even reasonably close to a Tyros2.

As Bill said above," The Mega voice type voices have been available in VSTi for over 10 years, and are now much more advanced, “However” due to the makeup of these type of voices it will take a lot longer to convert these styles then MS users think."

And, again, ]"Most people think Mega Voices are just ordinary voices with a few extras added, however they are NOT, they are specifically engineered for style play on Yamaha instruments."

So it appears you have a fairly difficult task ahead of you, although Ensnareyou and Lionstracs, and a few others, seem to think the Mediastation can do the task quite easily.

I must say, I admire your willingness to at least try to show how close the MS can mimic the T2's styles...it is certainly far more effort than any of the others have shown.

If it fails to reproduce a mega-voiced style better than a Tyros2, we can always pick a few non-mega styles, and see how it does with them...if that's okay with you?

I know you are interested in seeing how well your keyboard handles styles, plus, doing these experiments will also let you get to know the instrument much more intimately, so you, personally, have much to gain, and nothing to lose.

Thanks again,

Ian