Well BEBOP, obviously from your other posts you went with the PSR9000 rather than the 9000 Pro, which is cool for your use I'm sure. Meanwhile I have heard back from Yamaha in a very negative way that they will not be developing an instrument defition file for the 9000 Pro to use with XGWorks, and in fact there will be no further upgrades to XGWorks at all, which is the only sequencer program I am aware of that can use the insertion effects on Yamaha's instruments, not to mention some of the expansion card editors. I've posted the details of Yamaha's reply in the Arranger forum. This is very disappointing since I cannot find any sequencing program that can fully access all of the voices in the 9000 Pro currently. It looks like the closest I will be able to get will be to expand an existing PSR9000 definition file for use with the 9000 Pro in Sonar, then save my sequences and reopen them in XGworks so I can use the insertion effects. This is a major strike in my book against Yamaha... their XGworks program won't allow you to create your own instrument definition file (they call it "model setup") and though Yamaha could easily expand on their existing PSR9000 model setup to accomodate the 9000 Pro, they have clearly said that they will not do so. If Yamaha will not go to a little effort to support their "flagship" instrument for it's small but professional user base, I am now dubious about their commitment to fully support any of their products. As my way of returning the favor, I am looking for a tasteful way to block their name from my 9000 Pro when I play it on stage.

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Esh
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