Yamaha dance styles are not weak. You can only put a small selection of dance styles in an arranger keyboard. The advantage of a TOTL arranger like the Tyros, you can modify or arrange your own dance styles, plus a large expansion capacity.

You can add your own expansion dance drum kits and effects sound samples to the styles or link to multipads or audio multipads. The Tyros 5 audio player/recorder also has vocal cancel, time stretch and pitch shift as well that leans well into the modern dance styles, midi, and mp3s.

With all these tools, high end voices, and DSP effects, Yamaha is no slouch for creating and performing modern dance music. The added live DJ effects from the PSR-S970 make the choices even greater.

I just recorded two example Tyros 5 modern dance styles with simple 4 chord progressions from recent songs, so hardly the 90s. The Tyros 5 gives us at least 50 dance styles plus an available 11 or so audio dance styles. I'm sure most of these T5 styles made their way into the S970, plus brand new ones.

If Yamaha modern dance styles are weak, what arranger or brand should I be looking for?

Marcus

BigRoom-T5 (MP3)
https://app.box.com/s/62eji41428z1x9mgh8zuxbaqet6r64j4

HardClub-T5 (MP3)
https://app.box.com/s/7dbxpb3mvrspkn4y9mlz2c66xpfkl25l