Yamaha S70XS keyboard at LIMS 2009

[TITIN1250]

creo que hablan mucho uds. y saben bien poco de teclados, si quieren un buen piano ,compren uno de verdad,,, todo lo demas es lo que es,,,y es cuestion de gusto de cada musico ,,todos los teclados son buenos si el musico es bueno...ok.

[ltlfrari]

I own s70xs.

It drops notes!

There is very bad harmonic on the three keys around D1 on the s6 piano sample that make it unusable in my opinion.

The piano sounds in general are muddy.

It's got a lot going for it by to be honest my old EX7 sounded better. I can't afford another grand to upgrade my sound system so I am hoping to be able to return this thing. Shame because it has a lot of god stuff going for it.

My recommendation. Do not buy this keyboard.

[theBadloves]

What design idiot keeps adding extra foot in length to these keyboards for the mod and pitch bend wheels? You'd think they would have corrected that on the new XS series. The s70XS is a 76 key unit that is longer than Nords 88s.....

[Kimians]

Shut-up and play the fuggin thing.......

[thereason10]

yea ! I think Kurzweil's pc3x is far more advanced as a performance keyboard than the s90. 9 sliders compared to only 4. upto 16 arpeggiators running simultaneously.amazing orchestral and string sounds.you can play a war-orchestral music live on it if you have the expertise.there are also lots of pretty good effects you can add to your sound.. I dont know whether the s90 provides any effects plugin like reverb,eq,compressor and all..

But as a complete workstation.. Motif XS forever

[butchsoy]

With these features, Kurzweil PC3 series is the best but a little bit premium priced. All new models are featuring how natural the piano and EP's sound. Great synth should focus on how natural the orchestral sound is.

[tommymandel]

Looks like I picked the wrong month to buy a (slightly used) CP-300 (for $1500 US - still a GREAT deal.)

I really love that thing, the speakers on the body of it make it ring while it sings. . . And the 5 band eq. Good sound too. The 71 lbs. thing is the only drawback, makes an S70EX tempting

[Dadee3]

The LED looks really lame, looks like MM6.

[mysticradio]

hmmmm... i wonder.... i already own an S90es..... perhaps id be better off getting a motif XS rack to add on instead of going for S90xs with a few more bells....... the layering thing wont do much for me as i just use the four sliders as a mixer live to bring in 3 more patches at will... so if i sold my S90es to get the S90xs... id have to pay over 2300 to get LESS synth power.... and $1299 for MORe power.... i think at $3799 thats rather gougey..... any thoughts on this?

[ChucklesMginty]

That guy was such a legend. :p

[hotdog2200]

"All these performance things can now be done in real-time" - You mean the same way I could do them on my PSR-300 back in 1994? And it even has the transpose keys, just like the PSR-300! What an innovative product! (but yes, it makes much more sense than Utility > Page 2 > Knob 4 on my S30)

[groovebudha]

Well, I'm not saying a PSR isn't a great machine, but a S70XS has a lot more keys :) also more sliders, pitch/modulation wheels and to top it off a vocoder...

nevertheless you can buy a PSR300 for about $100 nowadays which is about the same amount you'd have to get a carrying case for a S70XS, so it'll cost ya no matter what.....