Chony,

I totally agree with you. Sometimes I wonder who is designing these boards for Yamaha. Don't they listen to clients or focus groups? How about listening to real working musicians with real life use cases.

I can go on and on about T5 annoyances such as the Music Finder, authoring audio styles, why are Audio Basses missing, why can't you play very complex bass lines during style creation, audio file looping, and on, and on. I'm sure it will take time for some of these features to make it into the product. Geez, look how long it took to get 76 keys!!! Most Yamaha watchers proclaimed they would NEVER release a 76 key Tyros and Yamaha finally did.

The thing about keyboards is, they are all TRADEOFFS! Every one of them. Why don't more musicians own the Ketron Audya? There are things missing from that keyboard as well. Why aren't the Korg Pa3x keyboards selling like hot cakes? Because there are things missing or not up to everyone's expectations. But I think the Yamaha provides the most features close to what MOST people want. Is it perfect, NO, but the bread and butter features and support are there.