Only 14 years late, as Wersi have had the Open Organ/Arranger since 1999/2000.
Its good that a big manufacture is getting involved though, as hopefully it will be the push that is needed get us out of the current Arranger/Organ Dark Ages.
Bill
Long long time ago.... the last big step in major arranger innovation (except for OAS, which however never got mainstream) was 20 years ago in 1993 when GEM released its WX2 and later that year Korg its I3 (and Wersi the orriginal Pegasus..)
After that, others catched up (yes even the technics KN2000 that was mainstream that time suddenly trailed behind) but never did any of the major arranger producers do anything really innovative... everything happened as an evolution, and it allowed everyone to keep up...
Its sad that development in other parts of a company doesnt make it to main products. The Yamaha CVP 609 has a lovely touchscreen and an awesome piano section with 3 top pianos that can be visually ediited by things like opening the lit or placing the piano in another room.. But nothing of all of this in the Tyros 5, a sad thing if you ask me, Tyros players would have loved the Piano section of the CVP 600 including its touchscreen.
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