And I think, that Yamaha is not planning to upgrade YEM substantially. It does what it is supposed to do. Arranger keyboards are not intended to offer deep voice editing, and this matches 98% of the users.
Uli
I might ask you, how did you reached that percent of 98?!
I tell you something: Yamaha's customers are not only European nordic countries, UK, or France! There are a lot of Eastern Europe, Asia, Middle Asia which NEEDS deep voice editing to reach their natural musical instruments. Those voices which Yamaha provides thru YamahaMusicSoft site, are not quite 50% quality of the real instruments, are far away, I tell you certainly!
Also, there are a lot of people who bought Yamaha and they are not members of any forums, so you don't know which is the percent. I might say that "SitAndPlay" users are a lot more than advanced users which needs functions. But WE don't have what to do, we have to thank ourselves with Yamaha's typical limitations and to enjoy only what they give to us!
... It does what it is supposed to do...
And WHAT is supposed to do?!
Did you opened an uvf file? Have you seen how many parameters are inside that are NOT proposed to user for editing, because the user is "stupid" and he does not know what to do with them?
We live in a world of hi-tech! I don't think some kind of parameters can destroy our keyboards.
I ask you other thing: Why Tyros 4 has a full voice editing in keyboard?! and believe me, there are a lot of parameters there
and I didn't heard anybody complaining that Tyros 4 has blown up because of some edited parameters in voice!
Regards,
Vali