90 year olds didn't reach their prime until 40 years old? LOL

Most of us, as we get older and more calcified (count me in!) tend to return to the songs from their teens and twenties, MAYBE 30's too. And also songs we remember OUR parents listening to when we were young.

So, your average 80 year old was listening to 60-70 year old music early on (and their parent's too). This is squarely in big band years.

Heck, I grew up listening to it and I'm not yet in my 60's! Don't forget, Basie, Ellington and many more were still performing into the 60's and even 70's.

But yeah, I'd want the feature for TOP, EWF, Chicago, and a million funk and reggae tunes. But I still like to jam a little Miller when I'm at the house and no-one's listening! Check out the BK-9 factory Performance list for the one for American Patrol... Nails it!

I think Yamaha has set up the Tyros 5 voices and Ensemble Voices for all pllayers including the home hobbyist. No one keyboard can satisfy all players. If one want to play strickly modern
upbeat young peoples music get a Synth. I am an older player
and I find the styles and voices that satisfy an old coot.
Lloyd
PS: The Ensemble Voices are excellent and you are missing the boat if you don't see the usefulness in them.

As stated in the comments, the first song is La Bomba, not La Bamba ... a little more light on the dancers would have been nice ... ... I sure should have stuck to dance lessons ...

so, no doubt there is a use for the Ensemble other than classical ...

I think we are simply seeing the natural tendency here to put down a feature we haven't got..!

Bet you Donny will be telling how GREAT all this is the minute they stick it in the PSR series!

wouldn't want to take your money

Knocking it before you try it, Donny? LOL

it aint for me ...ensemble or tyros...sorry...
Margaritaville in a drunken bar crowd on cello or violin ...NOT!

everyone else enjoy ..

I simply thank God every day that arranger makers don't make arrangers for the limited use that Donny has for them. Just imagine! No inputs for sustain pedals (or anything else, for that matter), no voicing tricks like this (I guess Donny NEVER uses the Harmony/Echo feature - that's Yamahaspeak for Melody Intelligence, right?), no 76's... The list of stuff HE don't use is pretty long.

Margaritaville in a big band style to the NH inmates on an amazingly realistic big band sound? Nah! Probably never going to happen either!

What does the ensemble feature have to do with cello or violin? It's a random connection, it CAN be used for string ensembles the same way as for a "hip" funky brass section consisting of trumpet, 2 saxes and trombone.