Dear forum members,
Here is one more who has both Tyros 5/6 and Genos. You might have read tests in HIFI magazines about audio cables supposed to be specific in direction (e.g. it is claimed it makes a difference which end you plug into IN and which into OUT and sure enough there will be people who give feed back they can hear the difference.)
To me my Genos sounded less good than my Tyros until I realized how much work I had put into tweaking the Tyros, for instance output equalization and compression. I started to do the same tweaking on Genos, and as a fact I got very near to the same sound. But you must realize you cannot achieve this by just inputting the same values, you must FIND which values give the same sound, or a sound better than the one than you have on your Tyros. I realized I had tweaked all the Preset Styles also, not to mention styles from earlier Tyros models and Technics keyboards. Especially the drums in the Genos styles MUST be tweaked if you want the tranferred Tyros Style to sound what you want it to sound on Genos. And here I come to some things I have so far not been able to do on Genos, which, if YAMAHA will not fix them will make me sell the Genos and keep the TYROS 5.
1
on Tyros styles you can change instruments and their settings separately for Intros, A B C D and Endings. On Genos I have so far found only a global change possibility, e.g. if you change the bass from Accoustic to Slap, you have Slap on
Intros, A B C D and Endings, a HUGE step backward in sound quality we define "sound quality" as the sound the user wants. PLEASE LET ME KNOW if it can be done on Genos as easily as on TYROS.
2
I have followed a dozen instructions on the internet on how to get TYROS Registry Banks transferred to Genos. So far nothing has worked and YAMAHA tells me there still is no solution for that problem. Is YAMAHA wrong ? PLEASE LET ME KNOW if you have found a way to do that.
3
On powering on the Pitchbender reverts to +/- a whole note from the half note I set it to . PLEASE LET ME KNOW if you have found a way to avoid that reset. +/- one full note is far too much for wind instruments.
4
The screens that can be set to the assignable buttons are limited, not free. PLEASE LET ME KNOW whether that really is so. I am not interested in TEXT AND SCORE but a lot of screens the buttons will not accept.
5
On my Genos the settings of the sliders will after a few ON OFF cycles default to something else than what they were set to. The same is true for the knobs. PLEASE LET ME KNOW if that is a general bug or my personal bug. As a test I set all knobs to have no influence on anything in all 3 alternative settings. It did not stay that way for long.
I know by experience that often users will avoid telling the truth on a forum because they are afraid their dealer might feel insulted and want to be on good terms with him. So if you prefer sending me a normal e-mail, please use v.freymann@welho.com Thanks.
Kaarlo von Freymann Helsinki Finland