OK, here goes... The trombone is only $50, but the other two are $200 EACH
Nice enough sounds but flawed, IMO... The organ samples are sampled though the Leslie, and seem to be fast only, which is great for the home organists that seem to like leaving it on fast all the time (quick joke: What does a home organist do when he comes to the most sensitive passage he has ever played in his life..? He FINALLY hits 'Slow' on the Leslie!
) but not much use for those that actually ARE more familiar with playing the B3....
The trombone is actually pretty nice, but seems to have quite a limited dynamic range... you can't get it to snarl or spit to save your life! Plus, some of the fall-offs felt a little strange, almost as if they had used a valve trombone rather than a slide fall-off (it's a subtle problem, though... I just noticed because I am a trombone player).
The choir sounds were, I thought, the best of the bunch, but to pay $200 extra (on a $4500 keyboard) for something that is usually already well represented (I know my Roland has these sounds and MANY more) seems a bit steep. Yes, I know the SA2 helps them a bit, there were some nice legato/detaché moments in there, but it wasn't anything I can't do with careful fingering...
Not to mention, how long does loading up 99MB take, on a T3, to it's boot up time? Not to mention 73MB for the organs, and 17MB for the t'bone?
I am afraid that Roland's SRX cards offer FAR more sounds for roughly the same price, and no load up times at all. All in all, I would have preferred Yamaha to keep their voice slot (from the MotifES and prior) and go this route, rather than going with the somewhat slow sampler. In fact, most Motif users feel the same way, given the furor that broke out after the XS dropped the expansion slot...
But I think there is one very positive from these demos... maybe now, you won't flame the factory demos as being too edited, in future! I don't know who is playing those demos, but I have a feeling he is the guy behind the 'Jazz' demo up for the T3, and from watching him play (on demos for the other SA2 sounds, too), perhaps more of you are willing to admit that, yes, it IS possible to get VERY close to how good that demo sounded, even playing live!