......I never had a freezeup or keyboard failure. Keep in mind, however, that
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I thoroughly auditioned each and every third party style I used, tried them out in registrations or MFDs, tuned and tweaked styles and voices, then tested everything again, just to be on the safe side.
2
I did the same with MIDI files I intended to use on stage, and later went to playing those few midi files through my laptop instead of directly from the keyboard.
3
Another thing I did was to minimize the number of external components and connections to the keyboard. The only midi connected device is my TC Helicon Harmony-M, which is controlled by the keyboard.
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Now, I have experienced USB storage device failures, which is why I always carried a backup USB storage device that was the exact same size and configuration as the one that stayed in the keyboard.
Kaarlo, I would suggest unplugging everything other than the speakers from the keyboard, and if the problem persists, return the keyboard for an exchange, or full refund of the purchase price and try another brand.
Good luck,
Gary :cool:
Dear Gary,
Thanks for very clear and all-covering advice. The only thing I was not sure about what you meanrt was "in registrations or MFDs," (MFD according to the
acronyms.thefreedictionary.com can mean 53 things
As a fact I believe we did a couple of the things you suggest.
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deleted everything "imported to the Genos user drive from Tyros", (the underside USB stick has never been installed) eg.
- all midi files
- all styles,
- all voices
- all reg banks
- we disconnected the wireless mic and earphones both from the mains and the Genos (which actually seemed to reduce the
reg bank errors slightly) and the Roland VP 7 vocal harmonizer.
Nothing could be found on the user drive so we presumed it was empty
- we formatted the user drive
- made a factory reset
- started from scratch using only preset styles and preset voices in newly created reg.banks.
- connected a Shure dynamic mic
- connected the active speakers directly to L/R Out on Genos.
Still the volume settings on the reg banks were unreliable, some volume set 65 for the style would hurt your ears with 127. Some regs where the style was set to begin with intro began with A , tempos where no more as set and so on. The info pages for the regs show these errors. (photos made)
I do like the Genos for several indisputable advantages like weight, size and sliders and fortunately the YAMAHA importer for Finland says, keep the Tyros and dig into the Genos. We will make the exchange when we both feels it works as it should, and actually they at stage 1.1 already gave me a second Genos as we suspected it had a defect. Did not help.
Having had only YAMAHA keyboards since Tyros 1 switching brand would be too steep a leaning curve for me so I feel my only alternatives are to stay with my Tyros 5/6 and let others carry it as it has become too heavy for me or wait for an update or try a third unit.
Cheers
Kaarlo