This following problem has been partly corrected by the latest update. However, scroling through a playlist of over 2000 tunes is still a pain in the rear end even though it can be done alphabetically. Come on Yamaha please sort this travesty.
I have had my Genos for 5 days as of the 10/01/2018. I traded in my Tyros 5, 76 keys, with great enthusiasm. Well, a vast improvement in the voices, appropriate to the styles, are much appreciated, likewise the Revo Drums and Kino Strings are excellent. There are more additional features that are improved and some I'm sure I have not even found yet! Love the on, off button on the top of the keyboard, instead of the stupid position as in the Tyros' range!!
The only gripe I have is the "PLAYLIST"!! I may well be delusional, and hopefully, I am, but how on earth can I find a song on an alphabetical basis? maybe I'm daft but I have a large collection of EZ-play books, yes not a professional player by any stretch of the imagination, however with my Tyros 5 I could go to "A's right through to the "Z's" with the click of the down arrow or a turn of the wheel. When I arrived at the desired letter of the alphabet I could easily use the scroll wheel or the down arrow to find the song that was now being searched for, to play. I have transferred the Tyros 5 "Music Finder File" to my Genos, some 2,100 tunes, just to find I cannot access them with anything that might be described as "WITH EASE", like was possible with the Tyros!! Surely, the latest model, the Genos, should be as versatile as the Tyros 5 plus additional flexibility! Yamaha boasts "Legacy" as providing the previous model sounds available to the latest models, so why not adopt the "Playlist" in the same manner?
Additionally, I used my "Music Finder" on the Tyros to prompt me to play a certain song! If I scrolled down, for example, to the "M's" I might see the title "My Way", the great Frank Sinatra song. On seeing this in the "Music Finder List" I would think to myself, hey, not played this for a while, let's play it!!
This is not possible on the new Genos, (is it?) please say I'm wrong!! I nearly kept my Tyros 5 and bought a Kork PA4X so that I could have the flexibility of searching song titles, however, I put my trust in Yamaha and on 1st impressions, I seem to have been let down!!
I hope there is someone or several, people who might point out the error in my thinking.
Kind Regards. Mike Sheffield.