Thanks Chris! Now I see what you mean in terms of the 1 GB ROM size on Sx900. That's exactly what I was looking for!
I don't have the money to spend on buying Genos now. I primarily use my DAW and vsts for my song compositions. I just need a decent arranger for some live shows and bread & butter sounds for movie scores and ambient songs. I'm also considering Modx (although not an arranger) alongside SX900 and Pa1000. Modx would come in handy for some experimental tunes alongside the usual bread and butter stuff. (Dual purpose rig maybe)
I heard that the acoustic instrument sounds are better on SX900 than on the Modx. What is your opinion about Modx AWM 2 sounds compared to the SX900 ones?
Hi Rashdezine,
thank you for your detailed reply!
Yes, the new Yamaha arranger keyboard models (e.g. Genos, SX900) have very good acoustic instrument sounds (in many cases better than their pendants on a MODX). Genos sounds even better, especially in the field of acoustic instruments, since it has even more SuperArticulation! voices, more effect blocks and also SuperArticulation2! voices (which are NOT available in the SX900).
The MODX basically has the same tone generation as Genos / SX900, namely "AWM2" (the same tone generator chip "SWP70" is used). In addition to the "AWM2" sound generation (Polyphony 128), the MODX also has an "FM-X" tone generation (Polyphony 64).
In my opinion, the strengths of the MODX are above all in the area of Synthesizer sounds, and the sounds can be edited much deeper than is possible with Genos or SX models. I have to consider that the user interface of MODX (and ASSEMBLY) is completely different from that of Genos / SX models. File management is also completely different (more complicated in my opinion with Yamaha SYNTHs).
Some time ago I had a MODX
6 under my fingers: I noticed that it had a very bad keyboard (worse than PSR-S models). In comparison, the PSR-
SX900 definitely has the
better keyboard.
My recommendation for you:
Take an
SX900 and install some Expansion Packs for Analog Synth and FM Synth sounds such as "Analog Xperience", "Phat Analog" or "FM Xpanded" from Peter Krischker (Easy Sounds):
https://www.easysoundsshop.de/29010212036/yamaha_psr-sx900_700-There are also many free Expansion sounds, e.g. by Peter Schips (CMS-Sounddesign):
http://cms-sounddesign.de/page101.htmlhttp://cms-sounddesign.de/page132.htmlhttp://cms-sounddesign.de/page16.html#wa-anchor-jbdr0fgc1dvaqkrawwHope this helps!
Best regards,
Chris