Both Voncken as well as Peter Baartmans have confirmed that the time between new models motl and totl will grow upwaards from the current 3 year cycle... Will it be 4 or 5 years... I expect to see a new totl arranger from yamaha somewhere between late 2017 and early 2019.. This would allow them enough time to incorporate new technollogies


Things are changing at Yamaha... Thats obvious with the Montage, new design, repackaged technollogy with quite some innovations... But no longer a workstation. Its a performance synth.

This leaves room for the tyros to move towards a fullfledged workstation witouth having competition from the Montage... Like a fullfledged workstation with added arranger capabillities... Not just for typicall arranger music, but for all types of music... In this case they might even leave the Tyros name behind...

Now if we remember all the comments when the Tyros5 arived from typicall old aged arranger players that actually moved back from tyros5 to tyros4 because the instrument got to advanced... Yamaha tyros moving into workstation country would leave room for a more typicall arranger with tyros5 features and improved style functionallity and diversity but all based on ease of operation... Maybe a PSR S1000 PRO....

Now this is highly assuming from my side.... But the more i think about it and look at the everchanging market, i could envision Yamaha using this strategy...



I think Roland is moving away from professional instruments and taking on the competition with Casio, as we see more and more instruments from Roland entering that price range... Its good to see that after abandoning Italy, the ea7 proved Roland is still in the arranger market, but they seem to concentrate on the asian markets, where arrangers are still a big thing...



The Ketron SD9 pro could be a big thing, if they only could produce new instruments with high reliabillity...