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.......and when I call that up on the Genos, the Jazz Guitar has a horrible fuzz/distortion! I've noticed this in about 4 or 5 Registrations so far. All I have to do is re-select the Jazz Guitar and re-save the Registration. But as someone else mentioned, you need to check every setting/registration you've imported, to find/fix these kinds of things!....
.....It would be embarrassing on a gig, to go to play a nice quiet ballad such as "Misty" for example, hoping to do a nice jazz guitar "chord comping" with the left hand, and have this heavy-metal guitar sound come blaring out!!! :-).....
.....I had another thing the other day - again a Jazz Guitar ..... the Jazz Guitar had distortion applied (effect), but somehow its volume was nearly zero ....... I re-selected Jazz Guitar, re-saved the Reg, and all is OK.....
Jim
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Jim,
Unlike me you have been on this site for years,
I am a novice here. Further more you belong to the age group of my children so
unlike me you cannot be claimed to be over the hill. THANKS, YOU MADE MY DAYYou brought up the problems which are the reason I still have not switched to Genos in spite of all the excellent new features it has.. Weight being for me what weighs most.
To me it seems there might be several reasons for these problem not having attracted much attention:
1
They are not recognized because people are just happy to play “whatever the Genos remembers,” whether it is what they put in memory or not.
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For someone playing heavy metal music it may make no difference whether Genos calls up a “heavy-metal guitar blaring out!!!” while what he put into memory was quite something else. (like it is for you and me)
3
Sometimes the right terminus technicus is more important than the fact whether what is delivered by Genos is what a reasonably experienced keyboard user would rightly expect it to be. On an international site, which admittedly is dominated by people having English as their mother tongue,
people like me may wrongly call something stupid a “bug” whereas the correct word would be “ an unintelligent implementation” and then the whole question is lost in a debate about what is the right word. A very common phenomenon in politics.
4
As to memory Genos memory banks, and that applies - to use Microsoft obnoxious legalese - “ to but not limited to” banks created on TYROS:
THEY ARE NOT RELIABLEI have been struggling with this problems for 4 months now believing in the beginning what I was told on this site,
"Genos does exactly what is implemented, any perceived bugs are not bugs, they are user produced errors because he is not yet familiar with the somewhat different software implementation in the Genos."
And it would be dishonest to claim I am not bothered to have spent literally a hundred hours reparing reg banks over and over only to find them again corrupted after a while. So I must warn you "All I have to do is re-select the Jazz Guitar and re-save the Registration." does not in all cases cure the problem.
The only one not to claim I am the reason for my Genos problems has from the very beginning been the very knowledgeable YAMAHA importer's rep. If it were not for him I would have contacted a medical doctor for a check up.
It is a known fact that at some stage we old loose our perception of reality and may even hear voices that no one else hears and cannot be picked up by microhones. The pro-Genos fraternity has gone to great length to help me A sincere THANKS for their willingness to waste their time explaining to me what I might be doing wrong, how to do it right, even analyze reg banks I have sent.
And I wish to stress, in several cases got the help I needed,–
But as to the memory problems, all efforts to no avail.
Let us face the fact the REG BANK FUNCTION of the Genos is still after 1.3 not reliable and maybe depending on what kind of music you are performing and where that is utterly
unimportant or
catastrophic. The Factory Reset may help if you have problems but in my experience not with reg errors.
I happen to belong to the later category. Just an example: like to-day you cannot listen on the web to anything without stupid back ground music that has nothing whatsoever to do with the subject, effects like chorus and reverb are what manufacurers not
without reason believe is what players want to use as it masks any errors in their playing.
As I have posted before, my sister was a singer of Classical music. After a certain age she would sing only in churches explaining “the acoustics masks the decline in my vocal capabilities.
I enclose a reg banks which is different from what was originally memorized and worked when recalled soon after it had been memorized and now has become completely corrupted by high settings of chorus and reverb. But not only that, errors can be in anything.
YAMAHA must be aware of this problem (the importer for Finland has contacted them several times and I am convinced the “Genos fraternity” on this site is even better connected to YAMAHA than the importer for “peanuts” Finland with its 5 M inhabitants.
I have no reason to believe they will not some day solve this problem though it took them years to finally on Genos make the foot pedal settings not disappear when closing down and locked harmony/voice setting is still volatile.
The only question is WHEN. And admittedly I cannot help feeling like with all manufactures’ products there is a strong policy of trying to make sure that problems are hushed up, never admitted.
Cheers
Kaarlo