Gary, the registration did what you asked: it loaded the style, then it loaded the midi. So what would you have Yamaha do?
In the future, when you have registration problems, here are a couple of tips:
1. Attach the registration when you post about possible "bugs". Had you done so, we could have solved this problem for you long ago.
2. When you want to delete a midi from a registration, there's no re-recording required. All you need to do is re-memorize the registration ensuring that the Song group is unchecked. It should take less than 15 seconds to solve the problem.
Cheers,
Fred
Hi Fred,
I do appreciate what you're saying, and in theory, that should work, but in fact it does not on a Genos, at least neither of the 2 I own nor any of the 3
friends I have that also own Genos keyboards. In all our cases, simply un-checking the save song option when saving a registration does indeed clear the check mark,
however it absolutely does not remove the song from the Registration Memory. I do appreciate Rudy's finding that pressing SONG SONG EXIT works to clear a loaded song,
and I will in future use that trick, but before reading that suggestion, the only way I had found to clear it was to record a null song in each registration as I outlined in my initial post.
Rudy cites examples of "nosongs" and "twosongs", and is absolutely correct. I even tried using Murray's Yamaha registration manager utility, I can see the song name there,
but unfortunately there seems to be no way to remove it with this utility either. In any case, I appreciate your suggestion - if only it worked, it would make life things a lot more simple.
As to the keyboard doing what I asked it, you are again correct. I asked it to load a song - I agree. I did not ask it to change the loaded style in the registration.
I believe that if the song file is indeed a true midi file, it should be fully encoded to play the 16 channels without having to actually load a new style to do so. I can take this file
from the Genos and play it on any other midi device, and the device will do its' best to reproduce all 16 tracks - albeit with less sound quality than the Genos, but
nevertheless it is able to do so without actually have the capability to reproduce a style. To the best of my knowledge a midi file is simply a series of instructions on how to reproduce
a series of notes, effects or drum-beats, much like the old player pianos; it is not a file which should include a reference to a Genos Specific style name, so unfortunately I can't agree with
you that it is functioning correctly when the Genos loads the active style, and then switches it milliseconds later to the style the midi file was recorded in.
Nonetheless, I thank you for your attempting to help me out, I do appreciate it...
And yes - good idea; I will attach a sample file if I have another issue. I'm new to using the form, and it never occurred to me but it's an excellent suggestion for the future.
With thanks...
Gary