Mike, my reasons may not be common for everyone, regarding liking the S910 over the S950 as the latter is a terrific instrument with some decent upgrades (for some, however) over the former. Ian, I'm curious to know why you preferred the PSR-S910 more than the PSR-S950? It's more about the sounds of the instruments, and in this James Last example I prefer the Tyros 5 sounds. You are right that in these examples the Tyros is more live and uses a style only, but there is absolutely nothing difficult to play here (although from other videos I know that this player is good, too). IMO, the last two links you posted don't show any playing skills, neither in the Ketron nor in the Tyros case. I think pre-recorded tracks are ok as long as you do as much as you can with both hands live. The Ketron Badinerie demo both has very good sounds AND the player shows good skills in both hands, playing fast movements precisely with the left hand also, no matter if there are pre-recorded tracks in addition. My remark was a more general one about the hype of a lot of Tyros videos with average performances, compared to someone like this Ketron player, who is really skilled.
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In any case, it pays to dig in and learn the instrument's full potential, rather than trading up every two to three years just for a few new features and perhaps some newer styles. Of course, we might say that about arranger users of all brands, not just Yamaha. The S910 is a very powerful arranger, which, unfortunately (through my experience as a former clinician) is rarely used to its full potential by most users. I very nearly bought my demo S910 (I liked it more than the subsequent model, the S950), but I was offered a great deal on a Tyros4 upon my retirement, so, of course, I took it immediately. I don't have access to an S910 to experiment with the RH keyboard section being split into two sections, although I'm pretty sure that it is 's also possible to set each RH voice to mono individually with different portamento rates/octaves/effects etc., but I'm sure the competitor's arrangers also have similar features.
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Rosetree, perhaps you could contact the performer for that video clip of the S910 and he could give you the details? (I've heard a lot of real strings when I played the trombone in the symphonic orchestra of a university, so I guess I know what real string sections sound like).
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That's my point of view about Roland Integra strings.
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What I am not yet happy about is dynamics: there should be more differentiation between piano and forte, that was not due to my playing, but the voices should react more clearly to soft playing. Sustain pedal doesn't work for string sections, too many tones loudly sustained. The demanding thing playing this is to play a good legato without using a sustain pedal. IMO only some specific Kronos or Motif XF external string libraries cam beat this. The Kronos preset strings sound very artificial, too. A Tyros can only compete with its small strings (quartet of solo voices), the "live strings" etc.are much more artificial.
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There are very, very few string samples that might be superior to this larger Integra string section.