Beautifully crafted visually and sonically. Its portability and wide spectrum of combo organ sounds made it the perfect solution for all occasions. Breakout port makes it easy have access to all of the great sounds with a full size keyboard or your choice. Overall, this is a great keyboard with a lot of good options!

Kind of toyish.

Cuts through very well. Killer sounds for the price and portability. If someone could come up with two-tiered stand that would hold two reface keyboards I'd buy the CS as well. I use a sheet music stand for one.

Was planning just to MIDI it up to my Roland VK-1, so I could play the transistor organ sounds with a full sized keyboard. Now it has turned my rig into a two manual organ setup instead. The micro-keys aren't really a problem for me. Playing in "V" mode really does gives you that Doors sound. Its distortion and reverb are better than on the VK-7. My only negatives on this are: Its edges and corners are way too angular to comfortably play in bed or while walking around. Rounded edges like on the very early Casio MT- series would've given it much better feel for that kind of play. The drawbars/sliders only go up to 6, and not 8 like on all the other drawbar organs, though I don't know if that would be a noticeable limitation. Bottom line; It is very addicting to play.

Most of my gigs don't give me room for my steel drums & Hammond SK-2/dual keyboard. This gives me the sound I want (plus Farfisa, Vox, great 60's organs) in a 4-lb. 22" package.

My dream has been to have a Hammond organ that is able to be taken and played anywhere. This is the one. In my experience it's the best tonewheel simulation Yamaha has offered to date. The drawbars appear to only have 6 detents instead of 8, but that isn't a limiting factor. The sound is 95% there, including the rotary sim. If the vibrato/chorus wasn't so cheesy I'd give it a 98%. The percussion kills the 1' drawbar just like the real thing, and the variable length slider offers more options than the original. The onboard reverb and distortion complement the overall sound, and the keys, while small, are indeed very playable. I haven't tried the other tone settings (V,F,A,and Y), and I'm sure they are as accurate as possible, but I wanted a Hammond sound I could gig with at any time and any place. The yc never leaves my side; if I;m stuck in traffic I play right along with all my organ tunes and this improves my technique since I can't look at the keyboard. The color doesn't detract since I'm also a Sweedish type of guy on portable keyboards, but the yc is a dream come true for me.