Originally Posted By jamman
Originally Posted By rikkisbears
Originally Posted By leeboy
I don't sing, I don't GIG out, I play the more smooth type music, ballads, musical theatre, 50. 60 love songs...easy listening mostly...so for me the Yamaha has the best sounds AND styles for my type of playing.


Ditto, took me 10 years to realise I was playing wrong brand of keyboard.
Happy with my SX now.


P.s, I did enjoy those 10 years, but, didn’t do much actual playing.



Agreed. Even with hours of editing, styles may not be smooth/ natural in comparison since the original style/fills/transitions- programming is busy/overwritten ( plus lack of 3rd party styles) and takes away playing time.

Again we are not taking about the “ editing power”/ “ sequencer”, “ sound/ program editing”, “hardware”, “keys”, built quality”, “ functions”, “VH”,” bang for the buck”, etc.We are talking about simple unbusy 4/4 styles. Having simple 8 beat/ 16 beats styles with simple / natural bass lines which is a must for western ( non middle eastern/non Eastern European /Balkan) music player especially your gig depends on arranger function.

SMF’ers, Sequence replayers and , LH bass players who use arranger as drum machine will say they have no issues.


Hi ,
I was fortunate that I discovered 3 or 4 styles on my s950 that did work really well with one of my songbooks. I’ve got somewhere between 30 to 40 of those songs covered with just those styles.
Must be fairly simple if they work with so many tunes?
Might need to work out something for the intro’s, for a bit of variety , but at least I’ll get time to play.
Btw, the styles are also on the sx.
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