Don't forgot that Yamaha can play at same time MIDI + Style. very usefool options.
Korg,Ketron Etc Does NOT have this functions.
Regards.
It is a powerful function syncing both a style and MIDI file at the same, that other brand arrangers cannot do. Not only that, the Tyros 5 and Genos allow a MIDI Song file, a style, and s Multipad/s to sync to a clocked tempo. Take it a step further, sync a MIDI file, style, and an audio multipad.
All my complex arrangements use this concept. Also unique that the synced style and Multipads are slave to the Tempo of the MIDI song file, yet the user has manual control over the Style Main Variations buttons, Fills, Breaks or manual styles endings or when the MIDI ends the style and multipad will stop. So basically as you use synchronization of a MIDI Song file (8 channels), Style (8 channels), Multipads (4 channels), and the use of your Left Hand, RH1,2,3 parts or channels, you are performing a complex 24 channel multi-timbrel performance that my Tyros 5 could easily handle with it's quality D/A output converters. Maybe the occasional note dropout as the 128 polyphony was stretched to the limit. Genos will have 256, issue solved.
This doesn't even touch the preset and manual control over a live performance. Since the style is slave to the tempo of the synced MIDI Song file, fluctuating tempo of your style is possible. When I compose a MIDI song composition (8 channel/parts in Sibelius Notation software) I can insert tempo markers embedded in the MIDI Song file as well as chords and lyrics which can be viewed in the Tyros 5 Score screen. After I import the MIDI Song file, I rework the voices and Mixing Console parameters and DSPs before saving in Song creator. When this MIDI Song file is synced to the custom style, the style follows or is slave the varying tempo of the MIDI Song file. No other arranger brand can do this.
Take it even a step further with Voice control. Each Style Main variation is linked to an OTS memory button slot. Not only that, each OTS save can have a different Multipad assigned to it. In other words, as I create my custom style, I program 4 voices (LH, RH1,2,3) into the the first OTS save slot which is link to a Style Main Variation and a Multipad bank (4 multipads). So in one custom Song/style I can program 4 (LH, RH1,2,3) voices X 4 for 16 different voices auto-controlled by the style Main Variation buttons, plus 4 Multipad banks X 4 voices and patterns for an additional 16 voice control over the other 16 voices for the total of 32 different voices per style. As these are called up automatically, I still have manual control over any style, OTS or Multipad button.
I use registration sound banks, so in addition to auto/manual control over 32 voices in a style (not including the voices or drum track in the style) I had immediate access to eight registration saves (with Freeze on) for another additional 8 buttons with 4 voices (LH, RH1,2,3) or 8 X 4 equaling 32 voices. As as a complex 24 channel multi-timbrel performance plays with MIDI Song/Style/Multiupads synced together I have auto/manual control over 64 (LH, RH1,2,3) voices.
I'll take it a step even further, any Ensemble or Organ World voices can be saved into an OTS, which gets accessed automatically through the OTS Link. There is even more flexibility. If a Multipad is playing from the Multipad bank linked to OTS one for example, if OTS 2 is activated, a new Multipad Bank link can be accessed or programmed into that OTS, yet the original Multipad is still playing from the previous Multipad bank. So you can have overlap between two, three, or four different Multipad banks. No other arranger brand has this power. The Genos no doubtably will take power performance to the next level, especially for the "live" gigging player.
Marcus