The purpose of the three video's mentioned before was that Genos was being used along with the Berlin Orchestra to play some of the Drum patterns and style parts using some of the Knob assigned effects to these showing how easy it is to use in live performance.
Dear EileenL.Although as I wrote above, I don't want to continue this discussion, however because this answer
is not about Event but about Genos and about my own comment, I would like to say a few things.First let me disagree with your point and I would like to explain why I disagree.
So, I disagree because when a company creates a campaign like in this case Yamaha with Genos, it must (and is required) be clear with what it projects and with what it promotes.
So, I will remind you what happened then.
Yamaha started the campaign before the official launch of the Genos by releasing these three mysterious videos that I personally never understood, and I never got any response to the emails I sent to the company.
So, all three of these videos contain the exact same direction and the focus is the Berlin Symphony, a lot of unrelated exterior shots (especially in the first video) and some very rushed shots from Genos that of course have nothing to do with the style or the sound that seems to have been chosen by the protagonist Alex Christensen.
So, I ask you: Can you find anything familiar (from Genos) in these videos? Because as you know I've had Genos since early 2018 and I hear absolutely nothing whether it's Style or Sound or whatever.
On the contrary, all three of these pieces (as far as the rhythmic electronic part is concerned) are programmed in some daw (Cubase etc.) and not some Style and we understand this above all from the pauses that exist between the pieces that are almost impossible to exist pauses in such a way in a style.
You will of course tell me that in a studio everything can be done and of course you will be right.
But in campaigning for such an instrument what should be advertised is what Real Time can achieve and not in a studio where something can practically be created (from the instrument itself) in which it is practically impossible to reproduce Real Time.
And that's because the reason all arrangers are built is to produce Real Time music through Styles.
Also let me tell you that for 22 years I have been producing music on the computer (independent of Arrangers) and I know very well when a track is programmed.
But regardless of the technical issues, I want to see things more clearly.
If Yamaha wanted to do a real campaign that made sense, then they would put the musician who would accompany the orchestra with the Genos, right next to it and they would play together while making a full description of what we are seeing.
Instead on Yamaha's site there was a completely unrelated slogan "GENOS IN ACTION" which led to these three videos without the slightest explanation of what we were seeing.
If you search the comments, you will still find the confusion created by Yamaha users who never understood what they were seeing.
So, you want me to remind you of the description of these videos (even today)?
VIDEO FIRST DATED SEPTEMBER 15, 2017:https://youtu.be/jHdbmEGyyNgAfter establishing the genre “Orchestral Dance Music” with volumes 1-3 of Classical 90's DANCE, Alex Christensen is now back with Classical 80's DANCE: The DJ, producer, talent-scout and songwriter now builds new homes for smash-hits of the 80s , timelessly staged. Catchy melodies, which are firmly anchored in our collective memory, combined with new orchestral arrangements. Besides Felix Räuber, who is the former frontman of Polarkreis 18, “Classical 80s Dance” hosts many national and international artists such as Ronan Keating, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Gary Barlow, Bonny Tyler and many more:
All videos of Classical 80s & 90s Dance by Marcel Brell.
SECOND VIDEO DATED SEPTEMBER 22, 2017https://youtu.be/nSJhKv1ZGIkAfter establishing the genre “Orchestral Dance Music” with volumes 1-3 of Classical 90's DANCE, Alex Christensen is now back with Classical 80's DANCE: The DJ, producer, talent-scout and songwriter now builds new homes for smash-hits of the 80s , timelessly staged. Catchy melodies, which are firmly anchored in our collective memory, combined with new orchestral arrangements. Besides Felix Räuber, who is the former frontman of Polarkreis 18, “Classical 80s Dance” hosts many national and international artists such as Ronan Keating, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Gary Barlow, Bonny Tyler and many more:
All videos of Classical 80s & 90s Dance by Marcel Brell
THIRD VIDEO DATED SEPTEMBER 29, 2017https://youtu.be/ZWLkgGZpJWEAfter establishing the genre “Orchestral Dance Music” with volumes 1-3 of Classical 90's DANCE, Alex Christensen is now back with Classical 80's DANCE: The DJ, producer, talent-scout and songwriter now builds new homes for smash-hits of the 80s , timelessly staged. Catchy melodies, which are firmly anchored in our collective memory, combined with new orchestral arrangements. Besides Felix Räuber, who is the former frontmann of Polarkreis 18, “Classical 80s Dance” hosts many national and international artists such as Ronan Keating, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Gary Barlow, Bonny Tyler and many more:
All videos of Classical 80s & 90s Dance by Marcel Brell
So, I ask you. Can you make any sense out of it all?
Do you find any logic in this campaign?
Personally, not only do I not find it logical, but I also think it contains elements of deception.
I also must tell you that I too, watching these videos, initially had very high expectations, but these were dashed when I heard the (real demos) and not the (fakes).
You will of course ask me why I bought it?
I've said it before, but I'll say it again. I'm a fan of Audio Styles if (I know a lot of you don't like it at all).
So, as I said before, I was always looking for an opportunity to buy a Yamaha arranger, this opportunity appeared when I saw the Audio Phraser through which we could have Live Drum direct from disc through a time stretch algorithm (as is done in Ketron).
I finally bought it (the Genos) and Yamaha despite emails never perfected that program (Audio Phraser) and to this day it remains literally useless.
Of course, I found a solution through REX Files, but it had a cost to the Ram.
Thanks.