Hi,
indeed, very interesting topic. Thank you for posting.
I do understand fully your point. I had an S970 before I upgraded to my Genos. And I can understand your guest. The S970 is much smaller than the Genos and is a perfect keyboard. Even the S770 is a perfect keyboard and gives much quality for its low price. So I liked very much the S970 for its portability and also for its high class internal speakers. The Genos is hard to move and you are right, despite its touch screen it is more complicated to use.
But the main reason for preferring the Genos is its superior keybed. What did your guest say about the keybed of the S670?
Uli
Hi Uli.
In my opinion the touch screen eases my work, it is more reliable! Not to say that it has a lot of features more than a PSR series has, even if it is in top of the PSR series. 76 keys helps a lot by splitting the keyboard, 3 Rights instead of 2 on PSR, etc... A lot of pluses on Genos sides!
Hi edtek.
There are several types of gigs, depending on what part of world do you live and what are the people you sing for (age)! You can sing dance, or you can sing slow music, or pop-rock, jazz, ethnic, etc. In my country the most part of a gig is ethnic music, at least 50%. There are bands that don't sing at all ethnic music, but only covers! Genos was not made only for UK, or only for Germany, or only for USA. Because, if so, they would not have been sold it on all the world countries! So, the needs are different from country to country, from player to player.
IMHO, Alex's opinion or impression is a pessimistic opinion, and I think (it's my opinion, and I'm sorry if it bothers) is quite limited music type player! Genos has a much better sound than any PSR keyboards (I don't say PSR are bad keyboards, but only limited comparing to Genos), much much more possibilities.
But I have one defining condition to buy a keyboard/arranger: If you don't have time to explore, or your needs does not intersects with this keyboard, because you regularly use only 20-30 percent of it's power, and can be done by a old keyboard too, don't bother to buy it! Search for a keyboard that can manage only your needs.
But if it is at least one IMPORTANT thing that a keyboard intersects your needs, then buy it, because will make your days easier and it rises your pleasure of singing
Don't bother to think about costs or because is black and not silver, or it has only 76 keys and not a 61 keys, too, etc... I think these are whims
Regards,
Vali