Having owned the T2 for less than 3 days, I'm still exploring all the new features of this board. Here are some of my initial observations:

I installed a new 60 gig hard disk which I purchased from Best Buy. I noticed the T2 hard disk compartment on the underside of the keyboard did NOT contain any screws to affix the hard disk to the mounting plate, nor were there any included with the hard disk. Be sure you gather these small screws before you begin installation. Luckily, I found some laying around in my junk drawer.

After formatting the hard disk, which the Tyros2 adeptly detected and initiated automatically, I used the USB File Mode to restore the backup which I made from my old Tyros. One of my gripes is that you must hold down the Music Finder button as you power on the keyboard. The bootup process does take about 20-40 seconds so you feel like an idiot sitting there holding the damn MF button. Shame on Yamaha for not taking care of this in software by rewriting part of the operating system to toggle between these two modes: Play mode/USB File Mode.

One very nice feature on the T2 is the two new buttons on the left side of the keyboard by the Play controls for Lyrics/Text and Score. Having these two buttons dedicated on the keyboard really add a lot more efficiency to the keyboard during MIDI file playback. A very nice feature.

Text/Lyrics: As noticed by another user, you cannot view text files with any other file extention other than .TXT Also, any formatting such as bold,underline, etc. embedded in the text file is ignored. Another very nice feature is the TAB buttons on the LCD display in the upper right hand side of the display. This is dedicated for paging the Text / Lyric display and works very nice. YOu can also flip pages with a foot controller. I have not tried linking Text files to Registrations as yet, that is next on my TO-DO list.

Well I have to run, stay tuned for more observations of the next few days.

Al