Tyros 3 - you have got to be joking

Well the rumour seems to be true, Tyros 3 is set to be the next keyboard from Yamaha. Tyros, Tyros 2 and now Tyros 3, has someone at Yamaha lost the will to name instruments or has someone cottoned on to the fact that the public seem to like the name Tyros? Either way there is another one on it's way and the spec that is flying around hardly seems like a massive upgrade on the previous model. For a start there is still only 5 octaves - when will Yamaha put out a larger keyboard version for the more advanced players out there. The only striking feature of this new keyboard seems to be drawbar sliders which looking back at instruments such as PSR 8000 with the roller wheels which allowed you the same control, this hardly seems a major cutting edge development.
Motorised display is also rumoured and if this is the case then someone needs a good slap at Yamaha. What is the benefit of an electric tilting screen - have players become so lazy that they cannot adjust the screen manually when the money could have been spent on adding a further octave to the instrument and giving players something they wanted instead of another gimmick.
I hope that the development team at Yamaha have put as much effort in re-writing those over used and predictable styles that have featured in Tyros 1 and 2 - and made Tyros 3 completely fresh and new otherwise it will be just another nifty marketing ploy to get you to part with your hard earned cash for a slightly re-sytled tyros 2.
Whilst I was at the Blackpool festival I listened to a few Yamaha Tyros players and every single one sounded the same. Press into 3, play a melody with a backing, press ending 3 and you are done. Come on Yamaha give real musicians something they can get their teeth into and not another boring arranger keyboard.
The specification on line so far seems to be as follows;
• 61 keys with Toch Response and After Touch
• 128-voice polyphony
• 1312 Voices incl. 23 Mega Voices
• 47 Super Articulation Voices and 5 Super Articulation 2 Voices
• 450 Styles with 4 variations
• 7 Slider for Real-Time Control e.g. for Drawbar-Organs
• Great Graphic-Colour-Display for score, lyrics and text
• Harddisk-Recorder: Play 2 Stereo Tracks / Rec 1 Stereo Track
• Microphone connection and Vocal Harmony
• USB 2.0 Technology: USB-to host and 2 x USB-to device
• LAN-Port for Internet Direct Connection (IDC)
• Video-Out and RGB-Port
• Brand new Tone-Generation
• NEW Live! Concert Grand Piano
• NEW Mega Voices
• NEW Super Articulation and Super Articulation2 Voices
• NEW Sweet!, Cool! and Live! Voices
• NEW Drumkits
• More new styles
• NEW DSP-Blocks for Styles
• Enhanced Harddisc-Recorder
• 9 Slider for Real-Time-Control
• USB 2.0 Technology and LAN-Port

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