Review of the Killer Yamaha Tyros 4 Arranger Keyboard

Every performing keyboardist looks for an arranger keyboard that helps to sound fully arranged with just a few buttons, and that too in a variety of genres. The Yamaha Tyros 4 keyboard, with its professional styles and voices, gives you just that in an arranger workstation.

And as we discuss the Tyros, one question that could come to a musicians mind is how good is it compared to a top of the line synthesizer workstation - something like the Motif or the Fantom? Well, the answer is that the Tyros 4 is still an arranger based workstation as opposed to being a synthesizer workstation. The tools for creating new sounds and editing them would be limited in Tyros compared to a pure workstation.

Nevertheless, the palette of voices and styles are so vast and realistic that you will have everything you need, especially if you are a solo performer or play in a small band.

So what does the Yamaha Tyros workstation give you in terms of features? Here are some of the important ones!

The Yamaha Tyros looks great with its eye-catching color. The screen, which has an adjustable angle, can also be made flat which makes it easy for transportation. It's easy to navigate using the control buttons, even in poor lighting, because many of its buttons are back-lit. The Direct Access button also makes it easier to move through the various functions and menu items, and it does not take much time to load the various styles and songs.

Yamaha Tyros keyboards use Mega Voice technology which helps recreate the nuances of real acoustic instruments, for instance the strum of the guitar. It literally reproduces the sound of a real instrument, making it possible to produce highly naturalistic and superb sound quality.

Your Yamaha Tyros 4 can easily be connected to your computer with a USB connector. This feature makes it easy for you to move files, edit, copy, delete, etc. Another feature that the Yamaha Tyros has is the MIDI A/B In and Out ports.

Some technical stuff here! Tyros has five blocks of 183 insertion effects, 34 reverb types, and top-notch digital effects which also include 26 chorus types. It has an excellent combination effects and a very realistic rotary speaker. Yamaha Tyros can produce 12 DSP effects simultaneously. The Tyros has 1100 voices in all and a huge 96MB of Wave ROM. The Tyros offers a wide range of variety in styles, it has a huge collection of almost 300 musical styles. Be it styles for your church choir or jazz or R&B, Tyros has it all which you can use to create your own music. It also has 128 polyphony notes. The Tyros software is also backward compatible with some of their popular, but now obsolete models like the PSR-9000 and the PSR-9000PRO.

Summary: Tyros is a great professional arranger which has some of the best sounding styles and voices. Performers and song writers will find it extremely useful and inspirational as they can sound fully arranged in a matter of seconds. The various options and the realistic sounding voices and styles make the Yamaha Tyros 4 keyboard ideal for professional performers and song writers.