Is there any difference?

I can't see any new voices, but they must be there somewhere. For current owners of the high end PSRs, this is a complete nothingburger. I remember the PSR-2100, which was a minor incremental improvement on the PSR-2000. Even that keyboard had more new voices and features.

The increase in onboard styles seems to be modest, but these styles, if they're not already out there, will be available for free download soon. Unfortunately, even though a lot of R&D goes into the styles, it's hard to recoup.

Selling off old parts comes to mind?

So what happens to current price of 970's new in dealer/distributor stock? All listings I see are still at $2K..

Well, besides the increase in ram memory I’ve found 2 other differences.
Registration memory can now save and store both “transpose” and also
“live control”.
https://usa.yamaha.com/products/musical_...s975/index.html

I wish they’d have done an update for the 970 to include those features.
Feeling cheated!
Jim

Here is the first NAMM video:



Eric

That's my friend Manuel!!

Manual knows Yamaha! Good find, Don.

Gary

The PSRs could always save transpose in registration memory. However, adding Live Control to registration memory opens up new possibilities for live play.

I've owned the PSR-740, 2000, 2100, 3000, S900, S910, S950, S970. For the first time in 20 years, I'm going to skip and wait what will probably be two or three years for what I hope will be a blockbuster.

I know that if I did upgrade, absolutely no one in my audience would hear a smidgen of a difference. If the new keyboard was packed with Tyros 4 voices, I would hear some positive comments.

No new Megavoices. See Data list.