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‪being able to play around with musical ideas whenever, wherever, no external devices, no need to move to a different room or a different position, minimal friction, and then record the idea to the internal memory, and then replay that idea into my MIDI editor over USB later…‬

the fact it speaks Yamaha XGlite-flavoured General MIDI even though it is not GM-compliant is also incredibly convenient for me specifically. i am a midi artist first and foremost and all my other musical tools speak that language. it's like yamaha made this thing for me

‪but it's also just, like, so damn fun to play. absurd fun to price ratio. would be incredibly fun for someone who has no idea what MIDI is. would be incredibly fun for someone who only cares about MIDI as a way to input notes into a DAW. and it's just one hundred dollars!!‬

‪it might be the best product the Yamaha Electronic Musical Instruments Division (Yamaha EMI) currently sells. it is, in its entirety, a package made out of reused components from other yamaha products present and past. it contains no new ideas. and that might be why it's so good‬

‪actually i don't know yamaha's corporate structure, they very possibly stopped using that name a long time ago‬

it's a good product because all the things it has fit together very well, and it has no pretensions of being anything greater than it is, and it's very proud of what it is, while not being overpriced

‪i'd think pretty different of it though if it were any more expensive than it is. i have a respect for what they prioritised in hitting their price target. i would not accept some of these compromises in a $200 product, that's for sure‬

oh hell yeah the PSS-A50 arpeggio hold feature allows changing the chord without removing the hold, that's actually incredibly useful, i did not know there were still things i could discover about this