Look on YouTube the number of Genos users.... Yamaha doesn’t need to provide their internal editor to sell their product. Why would they take the risk to give to the world the tool that ensures them to sell new workstations with new sounds ?
Hi Soundphase...
Look also on Korg PA4X users on youtube... I said some time ago not to compare anymore Yamaha with Korg, because of their level of sound. But we don't have to look only to factory sound, we definitely have to look at user's choice also. If user needs are more than factory provide, and users have its potential to make sounds for its keyboard, WHY you don't let him to do and you block him?!
What happened with Korg when they provided firmware updates which added new functions or parameters in OS?! I tell you, a lot of new users "arrived", and they have bought their product.
Because this is what the user want (a lot of users): that its keyboard provider to listen on demands, and to provide those users their choices.
Ok, I am also on the list of users which has a list with "I don't like" on Korg, but I also have a list with "I do like on Korg". I really don't like its case of aluminum, which make it very heavy, I don't like keyboard, Yamaha's keys are better for my performances, is more soft, the graphical interface on Yamaha is much much better and friendly than Korg's. But, really now, Sound Creator in Korg is far better than Yamaha, because Yamaha restrict a lot of parameters, Korg doesn't, Sound Creator is directly in keyboard, which is a big advantage, Korg's Style Creator is better delimited/defined, and I tell you, Guitar Mode is far better than Yamaha's Guitar Mode, splitting each variation by type of measure is an advantage to Korg, number of measures on fills/break, also, definitely the Style Recorder is at a new level than Style Creator which Yamaha provided to us as a function in keyboard. By having the fills buttons separately by variations buttons, is more easy to use one of the fills with one of the variations, and they have the option to setup which variation will be triggered after a fill press (I press fill 3 and will trigger variation 1, or I press fill 2 and will trigger variation 4).
And I spoke here about keyboard features included, not keyboard vs keyboard and PC.
IMO, you -> Yamaha, Korg, Roland, etc, as a keyboard factory, have to make a product which starts with your basic stuff of the new model, which your engineers think of, but after you launch it, you have to hear users demands, to know what is good and what is bad in your model. And try to repair which have to be repair and to upgrade something which you forgot or you didn't think of, but user did.
This has to be the relation between a keyboard producer and a user. User's feedback always do the difference
I don't understand why Yamaha is so restrictive with its users?!
Besat regards,
Vali