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I've owned the 20, 70 and now the 100. As a music teacher, I use these guys to replace the little old lady that accompanied too many of my school concerts. I can adjust tempo, timbres, pitch and balance during rehearsal. There are no unpleasant surprises anymore on concert day! (A particularly neat thing I do is sequence the melody and gradually trim it out of the mix as my students learn their parts.)
I also compose on the thing...I find randomly picking a pattern or voice often elicits creative output. For a figure skating routine that broadcast my music over the rink loudspeakers, I was able to rebalance the mix on the fly. (Man, were those speakers screwy...)
I use it as a brain with my four octave Yamaha controller for "small" gigs. With two shoebox size powered monitors, I'm hi-fi and portable! Finally, I just finished sequencing the entire 1 1/4 hour score to "Joseph & the Amazing...." Needless to say, the director of this community production was very pleased that she would be getting more than a piano part from me!
The internal memory of all of these machines is fairly limited. The 100's SM card storage allowed me to save each of the 20 songs w/ the patterns I created in "Joseph" with ease. Yamaha should increase that memory dramatically, fix the timing glitch when switching patterns, (I insert one or two beats of "Blank" just before a pattern change...not one listener has ever noticed this workaround.) and continue to improve the internal sounds. Especially for the price, it's a winner!
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