Originally Posted By: jimlaing
This may be buried in an old note somewhere - but is there a way to contact Yamaha directly (or almost directly)? Or someone to contact who has direct ties to Yamaha? I know there are probably many "wish lists" for Yamaha's next Arranger keyboard, and lots of good ideas floating around.

What I want to request is kind of simple: when a new 'board comes out, since "memory is cheap" these days, make sure it has ALL/EVERY voice, styles, etc. from previous model. That way, when one upgrades to a new keyboard, they can just copy their Registrations over and have them work. Then they could tweak them to take advantage of new voices and styles - but it would be nice if they worked immediately. I'd think that if the Tyros4 had everything the 3 had, and the Tyros 5 has everything the 4 had (etc.), we could do this.

I have invested probably over a hundred hours setting up my Tyros3 (mostly Registrations for many hundreds of songs) and I hate to think of having to re-do many hundreds of registrations, or even to have to check them all before using at gigs, should I decide to buy whatever Yamaha has coming out next. I may want the new sounds, features, drums, etc. of a new model, but it's gonna be hard to know that I have to re-spend hundreds of hours of time to make it ready to use again?!

Just make each new board "everything in the previous one" plus all the new stuff. Sure it takes more and more memory with each model, but memory is (relatively) cheap and always getting cheaper.


What are other people's thoughts on this topic?
Jim


When I upgrade (as from T3 to T4), I always copy the entire styles section to a folder on the hard drive and no longer use the inbuilt styles section of the keyboard.
As all my T3 registrations point to the T3 Styles folder on the hard drive and this folder is re-created on the new Tyros, every registration already points to the correct style without further work.

There is still the matter of re-assigning voices in some cases but this will always be a necessity any way if I want to take advantage of any new & improved voices. In cases where you prefer to stick with the old voices, they can always be found in the Legacy folder.

I would be against lumping everything together in the same section, whether styles or voices, because this makes it harder to find what you are looking for.
Tony