Do you have access in YEM to SA voices?! Revo Drums are something like SA it contains wave cycling, I think this feature is used only by Yamaha, not by users
Yes, I think this is the case as before, you can completely edit a Normal Voice or Drum Kit in the YEM. So without owning a Genos yet, I can assume that the Revo Kit are not one of the normal kits. Previous Voice Creators and voice creation/editing in the YEM have always been limited to single loop sample files.
However, the Genos Drum Editor within the Style Creator is quite powerful and useful. The user has access to most if not all the Genos Drum Kits. Still not sure about accessing your own loaded Custom Drum Kits from the Expansion folder. So you can still get the exact drum kit editing or reassembly of individual drum instruments from different kits through the Style Creator.
In one of the Martin Harris videos he saves the edited drum kit or reassembled drum instruments in his case to a registration while in Style Creator. That's fine and good, but not the way I use registrations. I prefer to have the edit in the drum kit itself, or at least within the drum kit within the custom style save I want to use.
The fact that drum kit edits were being made within Style Creator and the Drum Editor, makes me think the obvious, that that edit changes can be permanently baked into the style, after saving those changes to your edited style after saving it from the Style Creator. One would have to make the same changes to each drum kit each time you edit your specific style in Style Creator, but at least each time you play that edited style, the custom drum kit changes are there.
If I am correct that drum editor edits can be saved within a style, this opens more possibilities in using those edited drum kit channels transferred into a Multipad loop phrase or used in a Song/Style sync play. In other words, the drum kit edits to the drum kit within that style phrase are baked-in and can be transferred to a Multipad phrase in an external Multipad program. As long as the drum kit is not touched or changed while in a Multipad creator program, the drum Multipad should still play with the edited drum changes when played back in the Genos as a Multipad. I will have to try this eventually.
Secondly, the Genos still allows a MIDI Song file to sync with a style. So any MIDI Song ( with same time signature) can sync/start with a Style and the style will be slave to the tempo of the MIDI, even if the tempo fluctuates. An extremely powerful feature, made far more powerful on the Genos than on my Tyros 5. So basically all parts of the MIDI Song file can play, while the drum track (with the edited drum kit edits baked into the drum channels) plays in sync with the MIDI file replacing the original MIDI drum track , while at the same time the user has complete control over the drums variations, fills, breaks or style ending part buttons.
I would use this feature more in a traditional musical sense, but I could see the potential of awesome potential in EDM using the Custom Drum Edits with custom style saves, sync/start MIDIs and the Custom Style and with the Custom drum changes with the Genos User Multipads. I wish I was young again.
What blows my mind is how everything is many times more powerful on the Genos over the Tyros5, and in the case of baking in your custom drum edits within a custom style, synced to a MIDI, or contained within a Custom Multipad phrase, along with the upgraded 256 note polyphony, I can't see the end to that potential.
A few of my more complex arrangements, I can sync/start a custom MIDI file to a Custom style, while still synced to a Custom Multipad, plus the ability to sync/start a MIDI song, style, and audio Multipad. Truely exponentially greater potential and creativity on the Genos over my Tyros 5, that's being held down by the format/memory limitation as the Tyros range was stretched to it's limits.
Every upgrade from my first Tyros 3 up to the Tyros 5 and now the Genos seemed to be geared to custom arranging/creatitivity from the music concept stage from both a song writing notation aspect, to getting the voices and arrangement to get edited and sound like a I want, down to the live performance aspect that I ultimately obtained.
So beyond just the sit and play aspect of these great arranger keyboards, I have the complete creative process to create my arrangements, edit the voices/drum kits, save my custom MIDIs, styles, multipads, and then be able to deliver an amazing authentic backup arrangement and vocal totally under my control and whim. Truely amazing. Just with my Yamaha arranger and my support PC in the corner of my room in the basement.
I am extremely excited about getting my Genos. No doubtably eventually a twinset. A complete mind-blowing arranger. Crazy good.
Marcus