Yamaha Genos 76-Key Arranger Workstation
Genos is the flagship Yamaha Digital Workstation, with intuitive control featuring a 9″ color touch screen, assignable sliders and knobs with their own OLED display, and even 6 assignable button. Genos is the best-sounding digital workstation today with unmatched sample quality, state of the art Style content, and professional level connectivity the Genos is the ultimate songwriting and performance tool. New Revo! drums are part of Yamaha AEM (Advanced Element Management) Technology and deliver never before heard realism from MIDI drums. Super Articulation 2 (SA2!) Voices replicate the performance nuances of non-keyboard instruments providing unmatched realism. Record your song ideas or performances using the on-board MIDI and audio recording features, or interface with computer-based digital audio workstations.
Product Features
- The color touch screen allows you to easily see the state of Voice and Style assignments and quickly access and adjust a wealth of features and settings
- Assignable Knobs allow you to manipulate various effects and parameters on Voices, Styles and more, in real time
- Assignable Sliders can be configured to control a wide variety of parameters allowing for quick, on-the-fly control during your performance, or while fine tuning your production
- The CFX Premium Grand Piano Voice recreates the power and tone of Yamaha’s flagship CFX concert grand piano
- Revo! Drums take advantage of unprecedented multi-dynamic sample layers and round-robin sample cycling to produce the most realistic MIDI drums ever created
Great keyboard but requires more effort to transition from previous Tyros models. I upgraded from a Tyros 4. I love having the additional keys (72 vs 61 keys), especially in the automated mode for the left hand (it give more options when moving between pairs of chords). There are a few rough patches in upgrading from a Tyros to the Genos … the “music file” is handled very differently (and less conveniently) and I haven’t quite figured out how the “registrations” are loaded. But in time, the wrinkles will come out of this transition. Most importantly, the…