Why Yamaha does not create detailed how-to video tutorials for Genos features? It's a shame that it's flagship is supported by a manual and a couple of 1 minute videos...
I have a Yamaha EX5 synthesizer and I think the manual was written in Japanese, translated to French, translated to pig latin and then to English. It is a terrible manual. I also have a Yamaha PSR280 that I got for my daughter. The manual that came with that is great. Go figure.
You are a magician, and the music is the magic. Fantastic demo. Thank you and Sweetwater for a really great video. I would love to own one. Maybe someday.
Un grande maestro dietro le quinte yamaha, con una inimmaginabile esperienza, buon gusto, originalità e adesso con uno strumento veramente eccezionale arrivato ad un livello altissimo finalmente, però non mi piace nemmeno un po l'estetica della tastiera ma suona in modo incredibile
Martin Harris, by far the best musician demonstrating the GENOS, in my opinion. First time I notice the fluff under your chin. Let it grow out Martin. It will give you a whole new cool look. You have sold me on the GENOS. First time in a long time I have set a goal for myself - buy a GENOS by the end of the year. Yamaha is truly the best. I can't wait until I have my very own GENOS.
Hi Martin a quick comment from downunder where we’re all waiting ...:). Nice job! You showed singer/songwriters like me some of the magic Genos can create at speed. For us who are amateurs on keyboard but want a really cool instant band for inspiration - you shone the light here brother. Thanks. Now - a quick call to the bank...
This is a great piece of equipment for a songwriter in pre-production,or a guy with a one, two,or three man band in a lounge here in Vegas,but in a studio environment,it would be nice to have separate outputs for each group of instruments,(drums,piano,guitars,woodwinds,strings) so you can create the mix you want or you'd have to overdub every instrument when producing a song,which kind of defeats the purpose of this instrument in a studio environment. For almost six grand,I'd want professional "hi-z"outputs for each group.
you can actually do midi recording inside the instrument and save it into a MIDI file, then import it into your DAW while connecting to your GENOS, and then you can play the MIDI file in your DAW and you can hear the sound from GENOS, then you can edit as you wish in your DAW.
I need a musical(key)board that can read my musical ideas/tunes and arrange/play/record them using appropriate instruments and percussion.. hey.. Yamaha, can you do that ? If not, I shall stick with our great n cheap CASIO !
The Guy (Martin Harris) can play for sure ,yes. And he know the Genos from top to bottom, inside and outside,- because he is one of the top designers behind this great keyboard. ThankYou Maestro Let me have the freedom to ask if it is possible to make some DAW integration with it (Cubase Pro). If not, perhaps in a software update?? This will be a game changer for me !- and other mucisians with me I'm shure!
Ah, as a Cubase owner myself, I’d love to see some integration. I also bought the Steinberg Absolute Collection and it would be cool to also see Yamaha incorporate some integration to those VSTs too, in a future update.
ppl if you are just an stage musician this workstation is not for you. Other wise you've been putting over $5,000 on this keyboard to use only the synths and piano sounds . This is more for music production .
Isaac Pizarro it’s more for the 1 man band live performer and then also for the song writer who wants instant music production. Ha ha ha definitely not the best option for the stage performer.
Hello. In Audio multi Recording, I used to save my music easily on my USB stick. Today, I can't save anymore. I do Menu, then Export and at the top of the screen I find Cancel, New Folder and Export again. I no longer have Save here. Do you know how to recover this function? Thanks
Thank you so much for taking the time to answer me. Fantastic keyboard! You play it really well too! This keyboard will be invaluable to me as a composer! Sadly I cannot afford it for at least another 3 years :( but every second of every day will be worth the wait....such sweet agony!! :) You can hear my compositions on my RU-vid page if you are at all curious. My music is very well recieved, and I've had numerous requests for CD's, but my present Yamaha keyboard is a good 16 years old now (PSR2000) and to my ears anyway, not of good enough quality to get a CD cut. This Genos will open doors for me in more ways than one!! Roll on 2021 :) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SWLmhHTw2fs.html
Wondering if the keys are weighted or semi-weighted? Will it sound good only in stereo , not Mono ? That was the case with Tyros 4 and 5 . Sounded great in Stereo ., muted and sub quality in Mono, I was told this was because all the sounds were sampled in Stereo.
16:39 you can write music for a movie on this keyboard? but this is kind of like my coworkers doing programming... do this do that, and boom bam, it works. How does it work? They say, "I dunno..."
It's not just the contents of an arranger workstation that count. It's mainly what can be done with such contents. And there are plenty of possibilities on the Tyros 5, the PSR S970 and more recently, this great new Genos instrument. Yamaha Genos? Ought to be called the Yamaha Genius.
Really!!! You might need a reality check. For Workstations, you always bet on YAMAHA. Yamaha’s (BBB) BigBooBoo was abandoning The MOTIF Concept and replacing it WITH the no Good Montage. BRING MOTIF BACK!!! For those of us who cannot afford Mighty GENOS.
From reading the comments there are lot of people out there who cannot save or come up with a paltry $5,500 to buy something. The real reason I guess is that they just don't like Yamaha products and will come up with any bit of trivia about the machine to downgrade it, including referencing the 'incredible' cost to purchase it...should have stayed at school longer people...
Hello! The Genos arranger keyboard is available only with 76 synth action (non piano weighted) keys. This is typical of all high end arrangers, being much more flexible than typical stage pianos. You won't necessarily want weighted keys when you're playing many of the diverse instruments the Genos is capable of playing. If you'd like to go into more detail, please call my number below. Thanks for your interest! Nick LaMendola, Senior Sweetwater Sales Engineer, (800) 222-4700 ext. 1660, nick_lamendola@sweetwater.com
No it's not intended for music production, Montage or MODX are intended for music production as they are workstation/synths. Even though Yamaha market their flagship arranger keyboard as a "digital workstation" which is very misleading this is really an arranger rather than a workstation intended for one man band performers playing live. But the majority of midi sequencing nowadays is done using a DAW, midi comtroller and VST instruments, it's been that way for the past 15 years.
Shame...here in Indonesia most players are buying the latest boards but all they do is to play old styles inherited from their older boards, not even making use much of the new features so it still sounds cheesy to me years after years...loud mix but expressionless
All keyboards should have module options, particularly digital pianos. We may find an action we like, but not have the sound engine we like. These expensive arrangers don't make sense, they should be covered in knobs and sliders and buttons for full subtractive editing of sounds, control of 8 tracks of the styles, and balance between styles and lead. $5000 to $6000 does NOT make any sense. There should be full pedals, organ octave pedals, expression, soft, and switches included. Everything should be included!
It's an arranger keyboard and has no synth capibilities even though Yamaha are very misleading calling it a "digital workstation". It's a good keyboard for one man band players and songwriters but I'm not too keen on the appearence of modern keyboards. I would sooner choose a Roland D70 or Korg M1 any day of the week! At least they are the proper definition of a workstation and much nicer looking plus the Roland D-70 even has weighted keys! It's bad enough I very nearly bought a Yamaha Tyros 5.
Most stage piano players in bands don't realize, horn lines, string lines, guitar lines are totally different than piano lines. If you are a classically schooled arranger of course you will know that. This video also doesn't tell you if it has smpte or midi in out and thru....And I agree with the comment there isn't the facility to play with the waveforms on the elemental level. Even the old Yamaha TX81Z had that! No I think it is a nice toy to play with for a couple of hours and then go back to playing the analog instruments trac by trac. Am I old? YEP!!!
It sounds better than it looks which, is a bit plasticy. Some nice bells & whistles although. I am freaked out by the mad price point........come on Yamaha. Stick with my Kronos thanks for the time being and save my $$$$ as no doubt they will bring out a 2 model like Korg did with the Kronos.
Where does the music end up that people make with these things? Corporate safety videos and keyboard demos?? It will take a while to pay back the 6k that this thing costs.
People who play at wedding or other similar venues or gigs would earn back the money as I doubt anybody would play at events for free. Songwriters also use arranger keyboards to make demo tracks and then they earn the money back from their record. Or even people with a day job could afford to buy it but unless auto accompaniments are your thing it's not really worth buying an arranger. I was going to buy a used Tyros 5 because I preferred Tyros over Genos but because I quit my job I couldn't in the end. But to be honest as I do mid sequencing I was better off using VST instruments like Halion, Labs, BBCSO Discover, Decent Sampler and Kontakt. If I had bought a Tyros 5 many of my comments on here would have been different and I would have reccomended a used Tyros as a cheaper option to Genos.
Arranger keyboards only tend to come in 61 or 76 key options because they need to be easy to lug around. That's why arrangers don't tend to have weighted keys.
If your a one man band player or a songwriter and getting paid for live gigs or whatever profession then the money you earn would cover the cost of the keyboard. But if your into midi sequencing or music production a workstation/synth like Montage, Fantom or Krome is better as those tend to have more pristine sound quality and deep sound editing capibilities. Or better still get a DAW, VST isntruments and a midi controller. But if your unemployed or a comsumer in any case the best keyboard is whatever keyboard you have!
Very expensive rompler. Where are all the subtractive controls? ADSR envelopes, filter, resonance, LFO? Should all be physical controls. Should have mixer on the panel as well controlling all 8 tracks of the style and the 4 keyboard instruments. should have an analog engine with at least 8 voices. Should have much MUCH more...
It's not intended for music production as it's an arranger keyboard. These are intended for a one man band like a keyboardists who play at weddings. I very nearly fell into the trap of buying a used Tyros 5 for music production which is/was expensive enough. You should check out Halion 7, not only is it far cheaper than Genos but it blows Genos out of the water and also has loads of different synthesizers as well as bread and butter sounds derrived from Yamaha Motif. It's a pity Yamah discontinued Montage, I hope they bring a out a new synth to replace Montage so nobody does themselves over like a kipper buying a Genos for the wrong reasons. If you want more realistic sounds I reccomend Komplete by Native Instruments or Kontakt libraries by third parties as that's what most producers use nowadays, in fact nearly every TV program or advert nowadays is most likely done with high end Kontakt libraries by developers like Spitfire Audio. Nobody uses arranger keyboards in music production.
