ebuzer52 wrote: A special question to you, have you ever been tested Yamaha Genos? if yes, what did you feel according to 4x?
Hi ebuzer52
Very happy to answer your question but these are my personal views:-
I played the Genos for a long time a little while ago and intentionally checked out the things that "concerned me" and also was needed by me.
Firstly, I was VERY excited about Genos thinking that lazy old Yamaha had actually come up with a "NEW" arranger but, not so. Genos is simply a Tyros 6. I compared the Tyros manual with Genos manual too - almost copy & paste. The Tyros (which I owned) had many things not suitable for me and so Genos is now in that same category. So from actually playing Genos:-
I completely disliked the keybed and found it to feel "short-fall" and hard.
B3-Leslie emulation (which is important to me) is worse than the Tyros.
I hate registrations trying to remember "numbers" - this is where the PA4X is so much more conducive to performing and recording.
Super Articulation on Tyros/Genos is nice but mostly uncontrollable
Vocal processor is just about unusable for me - check out this sweet lady's performance in particular around 1:10 (and other places) - this is exactly what happened on my PSRs910 and Tyros - Yamaha say they've improved the VP but I'm not so sure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzfX2VjkLPs
It still has no tempo lock
It still has no intelligent chord fingering
It has no instantly accessible Bass Inversion toggle
It has no multi-switch pedal facility like EC5
It has no set-list feature
Styles are still too basic and don't seem to have much chord variation technology (intros and endings are great though)
It does have some nice sounds but then so does my PA4X, Kronos AND CASIO!!! (That's all very subjective anyway)
Rear line-out ports will not take "L-shaped" jacks due to casing design
Touch-screen is nice (at last!!)
Joystick is nice (at last!!!)
I still think Yamaha have kept this in the "play-at-home-around-the-Christmas-tree" category.
Anyhow, I do not want the above to kick-off another Korg vs. Yamaha war - just respectfully answering your question.
Cheers
Pete
