If I may Jeff, and to yours and Mike's point...
For years, I have used my arrangers' styles in the left hand and only piano or e.piano in the right hand. In other words, my bases have been well covered by just a fraction of what those arrangers could do. I have recently been hired by a very good R&B band and they need lots of pianos, brass and wind sections, solo brass, solo winds, string sections, and a boat load of B3 samples for making their music sound authentic. This has forced me to open the trunk full of Genos voices that I've never used. I have a few hurdles to overcome on the B3 organ front but I'll get there. Aside from that, the voices I mentioned sound amazing and even better in a mix with the other band members.
As Mike said about reaching the "peak of the curve," where Yamaha has come very close to the sound the actual instruments make - where do you go from up? For Yamaha to beat what they have created in the Genos, it would take a miracle.
Rather than a bunch of new voices, we'll probably see more tools for using those voices. A prime example for me is a separate mixer control screen for the drum kits' individual part volumes. That would be a major improvement. I say this because virtually every kick drum is WAY too loud when played over decent sound systems. It would be nice to turn it down without having to go through all the hoops of creating a User kit, and just saving it as a registration. Being able to EQ a certain drum instrument would also be nice. Maybe there's a way to do this and I have just missed it? I wouldn't be surprised.
Okay Jeff, now I'm done. Thanks
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