Hi Larry, glad to be of help, I have found this forum very helpful and it's good to be able to give something back when I can.
Yes I have seen and played the Genos and love the sound. Personally I like the new layout and i think I would appreciate the new sliders, they have better control than the shorter ones and don't need the screen to be able to adjust them. I like the touch screen too, but a tilt would be better, a friend of mine has put some wooden wedges on the back arms of his stand to raise it up and that works well. So busy looking at everything else that I hadn't noticed there was no bar counter, I wonder why? Perhaps it will appear again on an update.
However, I am still very happy with my T5 TRX and bass pedals, and would like to buy a better pedalboard and speakers for it next year.
I have recently bought a V-Console from John Beesley, now that opens up a whole new world of sounds and at the moment is like disappearing down a black hole when I start creating registrations, it's very user friendly, you can do so much with it and the more you use it the more you want to do! You may well know about it but here's a link if you don't:
http://www.tyrosmagic.com/v-console-detailsLooking forward to seeing you again next year, let's hope it's a good one, so much uncertainty at the moment.
Take care
Pam