I read the Electronic Musician magazine Genos review. Yes, a pretty good Genos review. Certainly emphasizes sound quality for the voices, Revo drum kits, DSP and multiple insertion effects.
The review is incorrect to say that,... "the Genos’ Voices are not deeply editable. Basic filter cutoff/resonance and amp-envelope offset controls are available along with modulation (increase/decrease) and aftertouch settings, but there is no additional tweaking available onboard and only limited editing capabilities from the computer application Yamaha provides (the most basic types of sound can be edited there)"...
Obviously the reviewer didn't go beyond the basic Voice Edit mode into the Mixer parameters, plus adding a separate insertion effect to each voice edit save. I would say that working with each voice allows fairly deep editing. Anything beyond that, one must work with the Voice Creator within the YEM program to add of rework samples within the 8 elements per voice. As with the Tyros series, only the regular voices and regular drum kits are editable with the YEM. However, multiple insertion effects can be stored to a voice or part through registration saves.
Also the review was a bit misleading that the draw-bar organ the voice is constructed so that there is no gradual ramping up or down from one Leslie speed to another. As this is true for certain rotary speaker DSPs or default assigned to certain organ voices, but there are several alternate selections for Genos rotary speaker DSPs with fast/slow acceleration/de-acceleration curve rates, adjustable, as well as speed adjustments.
I can't even find a keyboard magazine anymore locally. Mostly guitar, bass, drums, dj and electronic gear. Glad we have these forums to help us along.
Marcus
Hi Marcus:
Thanks for your comments.
I stand by my observation that there is not much sound editing available on the Genos. I think that is obvious to most people. True envelope control, modulation routings and depths, waveform/multisample selection: I can list so many things that aren't accessible.
And YEM cannot edit many of the most important sound types, most specifically the S.Art types, which compromise some of the most important sounds.
Effect selection and editing can be extensively done, and that's great, but a mixer's EQ and effects structure is not really sound editing, if you mean synth programming. And please re-read the review, I talk about assigning and programming multiple Insert effects on a single Voice/Program... I actually went pretty deep into that area.
My observation about the Rotary speed transition was about ALL of the factory voicing based on the sampled organs. The Leslie speed is "baked into" the sample. The samples have a different sound, and "vibe" than the Organ World does, and it's a shame that those sound can't be effectively married to the very nice Rotary DSP effects. We could make some nice organ sounds running the sampled slow Leslie married to the DSP effect, if only we could.... edit the sounds. But we can't do that ourselves. so we don't have any PCM Organ Voices that don't switch between the slow and fast samples. See?
I wish I had twice the space for the review, I could have covered so much more, elaborated on my ideas further, and shared more reaction to sounds and features. But print magazines are not very thick these days...
Thanks again for the chance to have some dialog.
Jerry