Hi Stephan,, The Yamaha is very user freindly, Great durms,percussion,accomp,Styles.
It does have a 16 track recorder,, Great sounds,,Western and Middle eastern,,I personnaly like it and use it as a accompaniment, Keyboard. Since I have the Faboulus sounds on my K2vx that I received from the Myestro Abdalla Safar,
I programed the styles on the psr to play only drums, Base,Guitars and brass, and then added the tabla, Daff,Doholla, And the claps, on the four assignable Pads that I can add and deleat on the fly when I am perfoming live. The drawbacks of the PSR are, the looks, the keys are too light,It has the wheel instead of the joystick.Other than that it is a wonderfull machine for Middle eastern music and Western as well.
As far as getting one, thats a task,, I ordered mine from Synthplanet.com,, and got it in two weeks,,Price is arround $1150-$1200,including Shipping.
Hope this helps,, Ho HO HO HO!!!!!

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Salamat

JerjyBeck