triton's strong point is hip-hop and strings, the cs6x's strong point is trance; it depends on what you need

i love even the presets on the cs6x; its hard to find good presets in most synth, but cs6x has some kickass presets, and by tweaking you can make your own unique sounds.

why are you all whining about effects on cs6x? the nord lead does not even have effects! cs6x has 2 globals and 2 inserts, so you should be happy about it. if you want more effects, add an external fx processor.

cs6x is destined for eletronic-movie music or for trance/ambient; its a very good synth, i own novation nova, but i like cs6x better even though its not a VA board, i do have 2 plg-150ans installed, so i have 2 mutitimbral VA inside the cs6x! but the rest of the 14 parts are non-VA electronic sounds, and its still great.

if you are a trance guy, this keyboard is a MUST! why spend $1500 on a virus, when you can get this for around $500 on ebay, and this gives you many nice controllers like ribbon, breath, several pedal inputs, scene morph, these things you will not find in a virus C!

cons: analog modelling board only 1 multitimbral most effects get lost in performance mode (voices that sound excellent single will not sound as good in multitimbral mode) shitty sampler expensive for its features ($1250!) scene morph stores only some filter parameters effects processing isn't that great...quite limited when compared to some other synths lousy led screen smart media storage LAST BUT NOT THE LEAST: WHY YAMAHA SUPPORT SUCKS FOR THIS PARTICULAR PRODUCT (when compared to decent support for other things like rs7000).

MY BIGGEST COMPLAINT ABOUT YAMAHA: (I HOPE YAMAHA CORRECTS THIS IF THEY DONT" WANT TO LOSE CUSTOMERS): Yamaha discontinues their products too fast...for eg. an1x. If you discontinue your product, before discontinuing try to come with a better follow-up product for heaven's sake. (thats what roland, korg and others do!)

Cheers

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