I just heard from a friend about the Tyros II. I here share with everybody here.

The design process of Tyros began way back from June of 2004. It seems impossible for Yamaha to accept any new suggestions. It is said that Tyros II will enter into mass production from July 2005. The expected retail price would be Euro 3600.

As compared to Tyros, Tyros will have:

[*]Sampling function(same as 9000Pro）

[*]improved touch feeling of keys

[*]new voices and styles

[*]Playable mega voice(originally, mega voice only applies to Styles and sequences and cannot be played in real time.)

[*]improved Voice Harmonizer.

[*]functions to record direct to hard drive.

[*]SmartMedia support. Digital audio output interface.

[*]video and RGB output (changable)

[*]Two USB ports for connections to storage devices and computer.

[*]Internet connectivity.

That sounds pretty cool, but cool enough for a couple thousand more than the tyros 1? We will just have to wait and see. Im sure your right though, any more suggestions will most likely not be added. Im sure going through committees, engineered, and mass produced in a matter of 7 months is slim, you never know though. Im sure they dont pump out that many Tyros, thousands of dollars dont sell that many. So they may be able to squeeze a few more things in. I may be wrong though.
Phil

All I can say is, it better have 76 keys or I'm abandoning the line for another manufacterers board.

I just talked to my informant, he told me that definately a 61 key. Not 76, sadly.

What.....No Speakers?

That is regrettable. With 76 keys this would have been an ideal keyboard for me, and I would surely held off upgrading my G1000 (76 keys) to something else (most likely G70 - also 76 keys), which is what I am about to do.

Still, thanks for sharing this info with us, tigerfool.

Regards,
Alex

How much is Euro 3600 in USD and how much is the current Tyros? Actually, retail price is really not as important as street price.

3600 Euro = $4689.00 US

I really dont see the value in the tyros 2, 4 1/2k... i saw this one keyboard that had a full blown dual 1.5ghz processor, 17inch lcd built in and so on for around that much. I wish i could find it again, it was way sweet. I dont have any exsperiance or seen/heard it before, but on paper i would much rather see one of them in my house.

Today I played a prs550 i think, does the tyros/psr 1500+ have the same keys? I really didnt like the feel, and would play if you slowly pressed the key. My roland wont play unless its at a certain velocity, to me a great feature i wouldnt want a KB to be without, to me it adds a great deal in the shape of the music, and that occasional bump of an unwanted key wont wreck your song.

Phil

No Music Finder IMPROVEMENTS?
Does Music Finder record continue to jump back to first song entry when leaving screen?
No Music Finder link to styles on HD?
No Music Finder link to Registration Files?
NO increase in USER memory Storage capacity?

If not, such a missed opportunity on Yamaha's part to potentially take the Tyros to the NEXT level, especially because of all the suggestions given here about improving the Music Finer.

If not, it's definitely not worth upgrading from Tyros I IMHO. I'll most likely will STICK to (and remain happy ) with Tyros I, especially now since Yamaha's finally gotten all the bugs out of it. I would only suspect that Tyros II will have bugs to contend with & get worked out over (hopefully not a l-o-n-g ) time like it seems it took for Tyros I.

- Scott