Hi
Well, I have practiced and practiced on the Genos and I am very happy with it.
I am making up registrations and getting in a circle with everything.
I have powered Dxr8' s at home and they are powerful, but use them at low volume and set them up right.
I have made six registrations now and what is holding me back is the quality of sound and sound volumes.
I got my registrations sounding great on headphones as I do not want to annoy my other half In the house with repetition.
Now when I hear then on my powered speakers everything sounded loud and tinny in my view.
I pondered for a while and went to the Eq and compressor section and fiddled and fiddled but could not get things right.
I got this covered now I thought and my brain said put one of the demo tunes up and see what the quality is like.
Ok, but not as I envisaged It and now I am scratching my head.
At this time when adjusting the registrations, I found that I was lowering volumes of everything as things seemed too loud and not integrating together .
By this time my volumes were under 40 on most sliders and things not going well at all.
I even went into the Style editor and lowered all kick drums and harsh snare drums and bass drum.
Everything now is going flat on me. Frustration now creeping in and a sense of nothing will work forever.
I have got these quality speakers and keyboard , but I am not getting what I desire.
Now I am thinking maybe I have the wrong style for what I want.
I changed the style to a country modern style instead of the 80s beat that I had for the Wait for me Marianne, Marmalade song.
This style now fits perfectly with what I am looking for and now the style sounded full and rich on my speakers and headphones.
Now I had to raise all the volumes to suit and It was up to 60s and 70s on the sliders.What!!
Previously ,I had noticed a volume Increase and thought to myself ,what is going on and that is why I lowered everything and got In a pickle
IS THE GENOS SUFFERING SUDDEN VOLUME INCREASES OR DROPS???I have an inkling that if you play a demo tune and stop it and go back to your style things get louder on the style without touching any sliders.
I am not sure if that caused anything ,but suspect. OR, does the wave files interfere with midi volumes?? or I MIGHT OF TOUCHED SOMETING I SHOULDN'T OF.
The compressor and eq does not operate when playing wave files.
I am now getting the levels right and full sounding, but It takes a lot of fiddles.
One thing that is prominent on the Genos, is that the Kick drums and bass end Is way over the top In the styles and a lot of styles need the kicks snares bass drum need lowering quite a bit as not to dominate everything.
Eileen noticed that on the Tyros5 and It is just the same on the Genos.
That is my experiences up to now and I cannot put the flippin keyboard down, It's addictive!!!
All the best
john