I guess the old adage, "there is nothing new under the sun" is true.

It's like the Hammond Drawbars that nearly every other organ/keyboard maker physically and slavishly copied , including Wersi and Roland, and of course, the Mellotron and it's choir sounds, that pretty well every keyboard can do much better (or worse)...although, regarding the drawbars; I don't think Yamaha ever physically copied them. They are on the Tyros and PSR but only represented virtually.

Of course, imitation is the most sincere form of flattery.

I'm tickled with the Tyros4's SA vocal patches...I didn't think I would be, but they have proven very useful (and I really like how they are implemented), and, they can be used in styles, like the other SA and SA2 sounds...that's really cool, and a very powerful feature, not on the other Tyros, or very few other arrangers, for that matter.

Ian