Tyros 2 Demonstration

[Tone_Deff (Musicmaker)]

Hi Fellow Muso's,

Here is a 16 minute demonstration by Yamaha's 'Top' guy, Michel Voncken on the new Tyros 2 - sadly he is speaking in German, but this vid gives some idea of this keyboards capabilities.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcLL3331lww

Enjoy!!

Tony

[gibbo]

Thanks for the link Tony,
That's a great demo of the Tyros 2 capabilities and helped with my German lessons too!
Cheers, Dave

[rosetchfie]

Hi Tony
Very impressive - will play it back for my wife as she was born in Germany and might be able to translate some of the words but the music speaks for itself
regards
Roy Setchfield
Waiuku, NZ

[mark]

I shouldn,t have watched this. I might have to buy one.

Cheers Tony

[Emerald Midi]

Great demonstration of this wonderful keyboard. How much are they going for?

[Tone_Deff (Musicmaker)]

Hi Pat,
The T2, can be bought (discounted) at about 1750 pounds. However, if you don't have a good speaker system, you need to buy one, plus (essential!) a Hard Drive. My wife and I bought one each, and after a fair trial (over 6 months), we both decided that we preferred our previous keyboards, the Yamaha 9000 Pro, so we sold the T2's on Ebay at 1800 each (with Hard Drive, Stand and Speakers), and bought 9000 Pro's @ 600 and 650 each(one with a flight case, the other with expansion boards, and both with Hard Drive).

The T2 has some (just a few!) amazing sounds - and internet connectivity. No Floppy drive (uses a memory Card), and in our opinion is less easy to navigate or use for arranging/sequencing. In the hands of a competent player, who played first the T2, then a 9000 or even a 2000 or 2100 - Joe Public will not notice any difference.

In my (not so) humble opinion there is no arranger keyboard for all round use to beat any Yamaha model, and nothing to beat the 9000 Pro, which is built like a brick toilet to stand the rigours of gigging, which the T2 is not.

(Later Edit!) There is a 9000 Pro sitting at 600 pounds on Ebay at the moment - they don't come up very often! - Here
cgi.ebay.co.uk/YAMAHA-PSR-9000-Pro-Keyboard_W0QQitemZ190073908855QQihZ009QQcategoryZ38091QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Kind regards

Tony

[Emerald Midi]

Thanks Tony for that very sound advice. The 9000 seems the way to go, and at a great price too. The T2 might have a more aesthetically pleasing appearance and a few other things going for it but I think I'll hold out getting one until the price becomes more affordable. I might just place a bid for that 9000 on eBay.

Cheers again for the detailed advice.

[Tone_Deff (Musicmaker)]

Hi Pat,

Its up to 670 today, but when you consider it has all the extra's, including stand, speakers, gooseneck lights, etc - it is still very cheap for a machine that was retailing at 0ver 2,400 just 3 years ago, and it would appear to be a good one - not gigged. Hope you read through the specs and piccies on the Ebay auction!

Should you go for it, I can let you have loads of stuff for it, (styles, and loads of midi, modified for this model) and even a dedicated helpline (my phone number!).

I promise you that you won't be disappointed, and perhaps like me, feel that the Tyros (1 or 2) doesn't hold a candle to it.

A little bit of history.... the 9000 Pro was the only arranger keyboard marketed by Yamaha to the professional market... It didn't sell in the volume expected, as the larger part of keyboard players are amateurs, and so they launched the T1 as a compromise between Amateur and professional players, sadly, not suiting either side completely. The 9000 was made in Japan by Yamaha, but the Tyros was made in Taiwan. Remember that the 9000 Pro has an extra octave over the Tyros and 9000 (which is the same innards as the 9000 Pro, and it has built in speakers).

Later Edit.... The Tyros weighs in at 22 pounds and the 9000 Pro is 52 pounds, it is quite a lump to heave around gigs, but at the same time proves just how solidly it is built. I use a flight case that has inbuilt wheels, so that this decrepit old fart can get it in and out of venues!!

Hope this ramble helps. !! Also - if you ever use Ebay - never bid, as it just pushes up the price - Use a program called Bid Napper (use your search engine to find it!).... it bids for you (up to your maximum stated price), right at the last couple of seconds of the Auction.

Kind regards,

Tony

[Emerald Midi]

Hi Tony. I must say you make the 9000 very tempting. Talk about a help-line

I had the PSR- 5700 about 10 years ago and that was a very decent, professional keyboard - the sounds and styles were simply amazing. I sold it when I was in need of cash but if I had it back again I'd never have let it go, but we live and learn.

Tell me, does the 9000 take memory cards or floppies? I'm hoping it takes the cards as I can only get about 20 - 25 or so midi files on a floppy, a 128 meg card will hold many hundreds of them.

[Tone_Deff (Musicmaker)]

Hi Pat,

It uses Floppies, but you have an up to 8Gb (optional) internal Hard Drive to store all your .mids (I have about 2,000 in mine! and room for about another 10,000 !!)....If not fitted already, most laptop Hard Drives will fit.

Regards,

Tony

[Emerald Midi]

Tony that sounds perfect, tell me, can you you simply transfer midi files from the floppies to the hard drive or do you have to download directly?

Also, because it's a hard drive does this mean you can save MP3 files (backing tracks) to play along with?

[Tone_Deff (Musicmaker)]

Hi Pat,
I download .mids off the net (for example) on to floppy in my puter, put floppy into 900 - then edit, pan, change voices, add tracks, etc, then save to the HD.

Sadly it does not save anything other than .kar (the words come up on the screen or an attached monitor or TV), .mid, or .sty - (.sty is the styles for backing your songs).

Have you bought it yet? LOL !!

Regards,

Tony