I figured while were all bashing everything we never gigged with or spent ample time configuring the styles & sounds we'd take pot shots at The Might Tyros 3's mixed reviews so far?

I will step back now & duck

Looks like you have way too much time on your hands.

Jerry

I'll bite....

Too big and bulky for only 61 keys....Since I haven't played one yet..I have to reserve my other comments..

Whats gets me is that so many T2 owners I have talked to are holding back from purchasing a T3 due to the lack of insignificant upgrades & mostly not worth the extra cost. But 3k/s900/T1 owners etc, see it differently.

It sorta reminds me of the G70 version 1..and version 3....That's right..that was a free upgrade..

Thankfully there was an upgrade...version 1 was awful.

Ver. 3 still didn't fix everything.

Ian

The upgrades the T3 has over the T2 could not have been done with a simple Firmware upgrade. You can only do so much with "Versions" At some point screens have to become better, clearer, Sliders added, New Voice technology has to be added. controllers, drives..(I prefer a universal hard drive over a proprietary flash drive)

Is it worth $4000? $2000 plus a T2? That depends on ones financial situation. People pay that much for watches.

Seems like T2 owners are the angriest since they shelled out bucks only a short time ago & now are stuck in between choices.......
is that foolish or?

Well I can't comment on the T3 since I haven't tried it. But the online demo's sound nice, but if I had a T2, I don't think I would purchase the T3 if they are almost the same. I will say this though, If the S900 was released at the same moment of the T2, Do you think there would have been many t2 buyers?

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For what Palin spent on clothes for the campaign, you could buy about 40 T3's... still doesn't make it cheap!

As for OS upgrades and ver 3 for the G70, Ian, no, everything wasn't fixed. Any more than every dumb design feature on the Yamaha's is 'fixed' by getting a T3. There is little in the way of pure 'bugs' left in the G70 OS. There ARE some design choices I am not fond of, but trust me, were I to have a T3, I guarantee I could find just as many!

NOTHING is perfect. But major OS changes are a sign of willingness to even TRY to address some of the issues. So, apparently, Yamaha seem mostly unwilling. MFD without transpose storage, tiny RAM HD's, these are operational aspects that, first one could be fixed with a simple OS upgrade, second one could have easily been fixed on the T3.

Where is the willingness to not only add new features, but to revamp the ones that many DO feel are less than perfect?

For all of Roland's failure to finish the job completely, it is still a large cry from Yamaha's unwillingness to fix operational aspects that have gone through three separate hardware models...

It's easy to criticize someone else's choice in arrangers. It takes a MAN to criticize his own choice. But that's the only thing your manufacturer takes any notice of. 'Defend' Yamaha's every move (or lack of them), and what incentive do they have to improve things?

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