Just ideas that would make to buy another Yamaha keyboard besides the one I have now and my Korg.
Whenever I use now YEM with my S775, I miss some features that would break the competition:
1. Possibility to make voices by combining the samples from another voice (but not increasing the packs memory).
2. Possibility of copying an element from a voice in the pack to another voice in thepack, as element 2.
3. The possibility to use internal waves together with your own samples to create combined voices etc.
4. Add the possibility to use the Legato for Mono Voices directly in YEM.
5. Add a Super Articulation Check box to use for Voices like Saxophone (use legato, mono and poli together in one voice).
6. Using a sample to be able to appear at random times (like the sliding of a guitar or the keyboard click of an accordion etc.)
7. Being able to apply different effects for different samples from the same voice, without using different elements
8. More elements (oscillators) would be great.
9. Being able to define the intervals for a sample (eg. from C2 to E2) also by drag and drop like in the Expansion Voice Editor (old software for S750, S950).
10. Also possibility to drag and drop to the Key that the sample has its root (original key), so that you do not have to choose it every time. So just drag and drop on the key on the top and root would be automatically selected.
11. A minimal sample editor would be very useful (as in right clicking the sample and choosing sample editor, making small changes, like change of loop, or making it smaller by croping it etc. and hearing this always after you make it and without leaving the program).
12. Being able to use samples with Samples rates other than 44100.
13. After drag-and-drop of wave samples, a possibilty of auto select for all samples to cover all the keyboard (auto select intervals for each sample).
14. UNDO button in sample area and in main area.
15. Possibility to enter and change parameters for Registration files directly from YEM, like changing and choosing Voices, only by selecting them from the pack.
16. Possibility to use Registrations to use Voices and Styles from different packs, but directly from YEM (of course, knowing the we have to keep same MSB-LSB).
17. Small Style/Pad Creator/Editor in YEM. Main things to use and change: voices in style by drag and drop or selecting directly from YEM, volumes, effects.
18. Combining two voices in the main window of YEM by drag and drop one on top of the other (the one that you drag automatically becomes a second element, or elements).
19. Being able to see the program change directly in the main window.
20. Auto Update function or information directly from the program (although the updates are not so frequent, but we hope).
Just these few ideas would be great for start. And, afterwards we could make more.
And I would like to mention another thing: I (and many others) would pay for these features, for a better Style Creator/Editor etc. But the prices for Yamaha keyboards (SX) would have to be much lower so that it would justify a fee for software. You have to recognize that Korg already has features in the keyboard itself (that nor the Yamaha keyboard or YEM have).
Also, a midi to style feature would sell more keyboards...
Best regards everyone!