Graham,
I posted earlier about using the loop Out and loop IN with an external mixer. This greatly enhances the versitility of the on board speakers as monitors.
Take the loop OUT - plug IN to a mixer channel. next........
Take the mixer outs, and plug back into the loop IN on the Yammy. This brings the keyboard signal into the speakers AFTER the mixer channel.
Now you can blend vocals, MD's, CD's whatever along with the keyboard sounds and feed them directly to a mixer in a PA.
You'll need a mixer that has more trhan one set of outputs to do this right, because the main mixer outs feed the PA and the aux mixer outs feed the KB speakers.
The main volume knob on the 9k now works a a monitor volume only. You can adjust any signal to the main, and keep the monitor volume separate. The manual shows a picture of this setup. It's a dream.

I have a question that I don't know if it's stupid or not. George kay didn't answer it after asking it three times. so I will ask it again and hope I don't get Ignored this time.

how big is the Seqencer...38,000notes?
and is the Editing on the 2000 the same on the 9000 pro?.

that's all and thanks to who ever will Answer.

vic,
I didn't ignore you, I just plain forgot! We don't know how big the sequencer is on the 2000 yet. Those specs are not yet available and I didn't look to see how big the seq. is on the PSR9000. I don't have an owners manual here at home and so I can't give you this number. Maybe Uncle Dave can look in his owners manual and let you know.
George Kaye

George,

The Yamaha 9000 Pro/PSR 9000's sequencer RAM size is 300 Kilobytes, approximately equals 38,000 notes maximum as vic indicated.

Paul Ip
from Texas