Hi everyone. One section of my recently acquired Tyros 5/76 that I had hoped would have been revamped considerably is the Multi Pads section… but that's not been the case! Why then does this section of top Yamaha arrangers seem to be so much neglected? Yesterday, I tried some of the Genos Multi Pads in my T5 (originally made available by Dusan in response to Jeff Hollande on the ‘Genos Styles/OTS/Multi Pads’ board), only to find that most seem to be identical to what I already have in T5… as well as what I even had in T4 before it! It appears, therefore, that all Yamaha seem to do from one model to the next is load them up with mostly old ones that have done the rounds on the previous models over many years - except for perhaps a small handful that could be called ‘new’! I make a tremendous amount of use of Multi Pads, and 90% of them are what I’ve downloaded from this site – and hardly any of the on-board ones! Like I said to Jeff Hollande in the aforementioned thread:
….a professional musician (a Korg user) I happen to know personally once told me that Korg’s Multi Pads are far more useable than the Yamaha ones. She said that Korg has many nice loops (as opposed to the one-hit type) that fit very nicely with the on-board styles (perhaps other Korg owners will confirm?). Multi Pads are something I use a lot, and I think it’s a pity that Yamaha don’t concentrate more on this aspect of their keyboards. Whilst on this subject, how many 3/4 Multi Pads are there inside Yamaha arrangers?!! Not many... in fact, none that I know of! I remember seeing or hearing a comment where someone (I think it may have been Andrew Gilbert?) referred to the absence of 3/4 Multi Pads when reviewing one of the Tyroses, and said something like... "don't they waltz in Japan?"!
Does anyone know of any professionally-created Multi Pads that are designed to work on T5? If Yamaha made better/more useable ones than the on-board ones, and made them available from their website, then I would gladly pay for them!
Regards,
Will