Kaarlo,
-------You are also of the opinion that Parameter Lock is sloppily designed, and I would agree with you. But that's what you have to post. You can't claim there's a bug when there's not, but you should certainly post what you think could be improved.
So we would love to hear where you think Tyros is than Genos. That's what this site is for.
Hope this helps,
Fred
Thanks Fred, and I really mean
THANKS, not like you say “how are you” to which the correct answer is “how are you”.
You are correct, stating the Parameter lock had a bug was incorrect, I should have said the implementation of the Parameter Lock is not consistent, split point can take a shut off, harmony/mic can not.
As to what was easier on the TyrosA German YAMAHA site recommended that you split the HD into 4 partitions due to the limited amount of subfolders/subfolders/subfoldlers on Tyros. Mine is partitioned like most in this region.
As so often what is good for one thing might later bring problems. The splitting made it extremely difficult to transfer reg banks to Genos which prompted YAMAHA Scandinavia to say it was not possible
though it could be done in case your HD was not split. I cited YAMAHA and it turned out the information was not correct for those who did not have a split the HD.
On the Tyros there are 12 STYLE buttons and you can make them go wherever you want on the partitions. Most of them of course went direct to STYLES I never use so I put a Brother P-touch sticker on them and made them go where I wanted to of the 200 styles I have tweaked to my liking. The majority has been collected over the years, some copied from the presets. So pressing for instance DANCE re-labeled to BLUEGRASS takes me directly to a page
BLUEGRASS slow
BLUEGRASS fast.
If I want 'Blugrass' fast I click that and immediately can chose from up to from 10 on the first page. 3 clicks. (of course if I have tweaked more than ten I would have to go to the next page)
(Not very important: The icons accumulated over the years can surprisingly be reproduced by Genos. They are very colorful and immediately identifiable. A great many of the choice offered on Genos are not. The black ones for instance are not easily identifiable in difficult lighting situations except that they are black ! To really know which type you are loking at they should not all be black but have different colors)
On genos - maybe my fault – I have found no way to go directly to my USER STYLES. So I click the STYLE BUTTOM which takes me to the PRESET STYLES I never use. Then I must click USER which takes me to my style tree
COMBO STYLE BOOGIE STYLE
BIG BAND STYLE ROCK STYLE
DIXIELAND STYLE WALZ STYLE
CANTRY STYLE BALLAD STYLE
BLUES STYLE MISCELANIOUS STYLE
I would like to go directly to the USER STYLES as I copied all preset styles I might use to the user drive, tweaked them and integrated them into a "tree" together with about 200 styles accumulated over a very long time
The same of course applies to songs. When I on TYROS click one of the I – IV SONG BUTTONs labeled the way I want them to act they go directly to important often used song pages.
On Genos when I press SONG it goes to a page that for me is useless. I must then make another click to arrive at my song tree
BALLAD SONGS COUNTRY & SHUFFLE SONGS
COMBO SWING SONGS LATIN SONGS
BIG BAND SWING SONGS WALZ SONGS
ROCK & BLUES SONGS MARCHES
DIXIELAND SONGS MISCELLANIOUS SONGS
So IMHO also choosing a song is easier in Tyros
Off course the assignable buttons, as the sliders and buttons on Genos are a great incentive to switch to Genos, but unlike those who claim they cannot find anything that could be improved on Genos I feel once we can have a button taking us to the mixer page – you needed far more steps for that on Tyros – it would be great if we could assign button A to the Style mixer, B to the 1-8 song mixer and C to the 9 – 16 mixer page and not have to go to the screen for that.
Off topic: All this is not why I have not switched to Genos yet, my problem that no-one has so far been able to understand nor solve is the fact that the reg bank saving is still not reliable to put it very kindly.
When I to-day called up 5 reg banks that when called up last Friday worked, not one works correctly anymore though they were left alone.
The reg information and what you see when you press Style (and hear) has nothing to do with each other. The only bank that still works is the one containing
only Genos preset styles. So maybe the problem is related to what styles are used and might therefore not show up with users who use only Genos preset styles, which would explain the enthusiastic posts of those who have just unpacked their keyboard. Naby users may not even have a huge stock of styles they do not want to miss.
I made a factory reset of everything except registration. Made no difference.
The only thing that consoles me - albeit a meager one - is the YAMAHA rep here does not claim the the user is the problem as he has seen himself what happens.
Cheers
Kaarlo