I'm not sure just what the problem is here. You use the built in 16 track sequencer to make/polish your song and then record it to the hard drive, just like you would if you were using a computer sequencer and making a finished stereo song. It would be a LOT more useful if Yamaha would include piano roll editing in the built in sequencer instead of just event list editing. The display is certainly big enough to do that.

Tom

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Bigger is not always better

TomCat wrote: I'm not sure just what the problem is here. You use the built in 16 track sequencer to make/polish your song and then record it to the hard drive, just like you would if you were using a computer sequencer and making a finished stereo song.

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This has been addressed in a number of other threads, but to make sure that it has been covered here as well...here ya go:

The reason why a number of us don't agree with you comment above is because your comment assumes that most of what we would be recording is keyboard related or instruments and parts that we would comp or play via the keys. BUT many of us play multiple instruments such as guiter, bass, any selective horns, specific percussion, and many other instruments. The HD recorder wouldn't be used by many of us to record anything that we do via the keyboard. That could always be tracked via the sequencer. The additional audio tracks would be to allow us to truly be the one man bad that a lot of us have tried to be by adding additional vocal parts (not just simple harmonies, adding multiple guitar parts 1-2 rhythm parts and perhaps one lead, etc, etc, etc.

So seeing Yamaha add this feature but stop at 2-4 tracks simply doesn't make sense to most of us.

I hope that help explaine what this is really about for some of us.

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DJ
AcousticTones Recording Studios