The Yamaha Mega Voice technology is very nice and provides more realism to your style voices. Not very easy to program your own Mega Voice within a style because of complex velocity levels and note ranges programmed into the voice.

I noticed when I upgraded from my Tyros 4 to Tyros 5, Yamaha placed all the Mega voices into one folder, just as it appears they did with the S970. The advantage here is when you want to replace a Mega voice within a style with another, they are easier to find. The odd Mega voice sometimes isn't compatible with another because of slight programming differences and nuances, but for the most part they can interchange.

Yamaha Premium styles are one of the best in the industry. Sometimes I will purchase a good style for just the Mega voice or SA voice part, because extremely difficult to program your own Mega voices within a style. These ultra-real style channels ( especially the guitar parts ) can easily be reworked or reassembled into other style parts to also give that style the extra realism or polish. I assume that the S970 has Style Creator.

With the introduction of Real Distortion and other new DSP effects on the S970, this opens up the realism to yet another level in your solo voice playing or within a style voice. The S970 is a very nice board, great value and you get a good selection of Mega voices.

Mikem, I view and enjoy all your video uploads. Thanks

Marcus