Some of your criticisms are spot on, like #20, that 8 pin din cable needs to be replaced by something much less fragile
Some of your other comparisons are a bit odd, howevever:
Friends,
Although the sound quality between Tyros5 and Genos is very improved but features are not improved. I have noted 20 problems and I hope Yamaha will improve the features in the upcoming model.
1) OVERALL SOUND : Sound is warm but not Bright. Brighter sound needed like Tyros5.
If you're using the GNSMS01 speakers versus the TRSMS05 speakers, the Genos is *considerably* brighter and clearer than the T5. I have both sets plugged into our store Genos, the Tyros set is so dull and muddy it compared to the Genos ones. I'm guessing you're either using a mono woofer stick PA system or a KC, both of which aren't known for clarity.
2) KEYBOARD LENGTH IS NOT CONVENIENT ; 61 Note keyboard is preferred.
3) NO INDIAN VOICES & NO INDIAN DRUM KIT : All indian voices available in Yamaha MONTAGE & MODX keyboards and Indian Drum kit to be included in Genos replacement keyboard.
4) NO SEAMLESS SOUND SWITCHING (CUTTING OF VOICES ) : Voices are cutting off when Registrations are changed, Seamless Sound Switching (SSS) is highly needed like Montage keyboard.
all 3 of these of these are fair:
2) However, T5-76 outsold T5-61 by a large margin (approx 4 to 1 in Canada) so you can see why they simplified things and went with just the 1 size; remember for 10 years, they only offered the 61 key size, the PSR9000 was the last time before T1 that they offered both a 61 and 76 key size.
3) You can technically get Indian drum kits for free right now (the T5 worship styles works on Genos) but yes, it would be nice if they offered a Genos specific Indian pack
4) The T5 didn't have seamless switching either. But that would be nice; it *would* require them to set the internal voice volumes to all be the same (the 'jump' you hear is partly switching samples in ram, partly dsps, partly the different volume levels)
5) ORGAN & CHOIR SECTION TO BE IMPROVED : Hauptwerk Pipe Organ Voices and Wurlitzer Electro Static Reed Organ and Farfisa,COMBO Organ voices needed.
6) REGISTRATIONS SAVING PROBLEM :
(A) During live performance, When Registrations are saved from one bank to another, pop up message asking to save or not, this is not convenient during live performance. Registrations need to be saved immediately like earlier PSR-740 keyboard without any pop up message. Two options needed for saving Registrations 1) Direct Registrations saving one bank to another without pop up message 2) Registrations saving with pop up message.
(B) Last used Registrations voices to resume automatically, when the keyboard is turned off and on.
(C) Registrations buttons to be increased to 16 . Assignable buttons also to work like Registrations buttons.
5) The Genos has all the organ sounds of the T5's amazing Organ World...? But yes, more (and more accurate Leslies) would be welcome
6) This is a really unusual complaint, as *any* registration system where it's not a fixed array (ie Yamaha since the 2000's) should ask you if you want to overwrite without changing the file name. This was in fact a complaint we had, back in the day the fixed array registrations had no name, and without asking you if you wanted to overwrite the same slot it was easy to wreck your work. The warning was added because we wanted it.
You should never be overwriting a registration on the fly, as the whole point is to preplan the setup you need at each step of the performance... if you're changing it on the fly, you didn't set it up correctly in the first place...?
We complained about the psr600 and 700 series for *not* checking before accidentally overwriting, and Yamaha fixed that with the warning, now you're complaining about the fix?
the rest: Completely agree about mics. 2 would be nice, but only 1 should have harmony. And strongly agree, the default should be harmony off.
7) MICROPHONE SECTION :
(A) Dual Microphone inputs needed.
(B) Master Reverb,Chorus effects to be applied for Microphone sound when Microphone output is routed through Sub Outputs.
(C) Feedback destroyer function needed.
(D) Vocal Harmony button to be always off on default.
"8 ) ASSIGNABLE FOOT PEDAL FUNCTION : Foot pedal to control Song Volume and DEMO volume."
Demo? Why would you need to control the demo volume hands free? And you can already control midi song volume with an fc7 (or an Fc3 if you enjoy a challenge)
"9) STYLE (ACCOMPANIMENT) VOLUME :
(A) Sub-Woofer Output : A new Separate sub woofer output needed for Accompaniment(Style) voice.
(B) Accompaniment (style) volume need to be controlled with pedal also.
(C) Accompaniment (Style) output to be assigned to sub outputs without any missing of Master Reverb and Chorus effects."
By definition, a subwoofer only handles bass. And again, you can already control song and style volume by pedal Direct Acces, step on the volume pedal, and then uncheck everything except style or midi)
"10) STYLE (Accompaniment ) Volume changes MIDI Message :
Accompaniment (Style) should generate MIDI messages, so that Accompaniment (Style) volume can be controlled by using external MIDI volume pedal."
Again, this already works.
"11) AFTER TOUCH EFFECT WITH PEDAL : After Touch effect to be applied via Pedals,since some players don't like to shake the key or applying pressure on keyboard."
That's fair, since it's not quite the same as modulation
"12) INDIVIDUAL UPPER OCTAVE BUTTONS :
Individual upper octave buttons needed for R1,R2 and R3."
that would add more buttons, they've been trying to streamline using fewer buttons. And you can already assign individual R1,R2, R3 octaves via touch screen. However, a bigger octave shift than +2/-2 would be nice for that exact reason.
"13) NEW TRILL TONE/ TREMOLO EFFECT BUTTON AND LAST NOTE HOLD BUTTON : New Trill button needed for adding Trill tone effect to Dulcimer, Mandolin,Santoor, Banjo, Rabab etc voices and a new "Hold Button " needed to hold last played note like left hold button."
Already can if you assign keyboard harmony to repeat, and set the type to "Echo" then tremolo, and settings to 16th notes. However, it sounds artificial, it would be nice if there were a way to 'humanize' the repeats.
"14) MULTIPADS : Multipads buttons (1-4) to be off when pressing on each button again."
I get where you're coming from; the current method to stop by holding stop then tapping the 1-4 button is slightly awkward. But then what if we want to re-start the multipad? Right now, we'd just tap it again, which is what you propose for stop. In this case, I think it would be worth them showing the pads on screen; if you want to restart, press the (1-4) button again. But if you want to stop? tap the *lit* multipads on the touchscreen.
"15) REGISTRATIONS & FREEZE BUTTON : Registration button &Freeze button to hold Master Reverb, Chorus, Master Equalizer and Compressor settings."
I think those settings are already "outside" of the registration memory... meaning that there's nothing to freeze...?
"16) TEMPO SPEED CONTROL ON DISPLAY :
Style tempo speed control to be controlled on Display with digital slider with touch response."
You mean instead of the data dial?
"17) AUDIO RECORDING :
(A) Extra separate track recording for Microphone needed.
(B) Separate manual volume slider to control Line In (Audio In) volume."
A built in audio interface would solve that, although there *is* already mic gain knob, and you already can assign a slider to mic volume. Tap slider assign on the left until you see "Mic Volume" on the 9th slider.
"18) WI-FI SHARING OF AUDIO RECORDINGS :
Audio songs recorded to be shared through Mobile phone through Wi-Fi."
Already shares audio through the wifi, but yes it wouldn't hurt to be able to send files that way. Although you can send midi through the wifi already via the chordtracker app.
"19) PDF FILES DISPLAY :
PDF song sheets to be displayed on the Display.
20) 8 PIN MINI DIN CONNECTOR PROBLEM : 8 Pin Mini Din Connector pins are getting damaged, replace 8 Pin Mini Din Connector with normal instrument cables for external speaker system.
Sunny."
Very strongly agree with the last 2, especially #20. Those pins are way too fragile, we need a more "blocky" connector end, like a USB port or an HDMI port.
Mark