Chony, what an absolute lovely review. The last Yamaha board I owned was the Tyros 2 so going to the T4 seems to be a natural and logical progression for me.

Btw, I visited your web site and those custom styles really rock. Did you create those from scratch? The video in which you RIFF, is an interesting take on the genre, both very rockin' yet traditional sounding. I assume you are playing the T3? Was that a stock guitar you were playing? It sounded very nice.

Anyway, thanks for taking the time to write a review- i found it very helpful.

Al

Hi Ian.



lol... I fail to see how you make that out where there were only ever 4 flashship arrangers.

i3, i30, Pa1X, Pa2X.

Now look at what flagship arrangers Yamaha released in the same time frame.

PSR-6000
PSR-7000
PSR 8000
PSR 9000
PSR 9000 Pro
Tyros 1
Tyros 2
Tyros 3
Tyros 4

That's called Milking the Cow.

Regards
James.

Whatever...regardless of the number, they milk cows just the same.

That was my point...thanks for confirming it.

Is it wrong? If they are still in business (Yamaha and Korg), they must be doing something right.

Moo-hoo to you.

Ian



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lol... but at least KORG don't rape the cow in the process.

Who knows for sure...whatever the case, they seem to be getting the same amount of milk...just like you and I are getting the same milking out of these old criticisms. Ha ha.

Again, I say, we are very fortunate they (Yamaha and Korg) still make great TOTL/MOTL arrangers however they do it...my sympathies to our brothers, the Roland fanboys.

Ian

You've missed out the Korg PA-80 which replaced the I-30 and was superseded by the pa1x, i had all 3.

You've missed out the Korg PA-80 which replaced the I-30 and was superseded by the pa1x, i had all 3.

So basically, Korg had 5 TOTL arrangers, and Yamaha had 8, because the PSR9000 Pro was a 76 key variation of the PSR9000. Not a big deal.

Beakybird

Many would disagree about what the Pa80 was as it was an intermediate product to the Pa1X and the switch of production from Japan to Italy. It's not that important though.

Your still looking at 2 Yamaha keyboards for every 1 KORG put out.

Now, how about that Motif line of keyboards

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Certainly it's not important.

However,Yamaha was continually developing new features/technology, allowing them to introduce a new arranger more often than Korg.

Ian