......I think Tyros owners are the prime market for the Genos. It only makes sense. They are the least path of resistance.
.....why do engineers take away usable functions, replace them with functions we either don't want, that just don't serve any useful purpose, or simply don't work? What are they thinking?.......
....the older Yamaha users on this site .... can remember the times when we bought a new keyboard and the improvements over the old model were stellar, we had everything we had on the previous model, ..... and everything worked as promised. ......
Exactly ! But as with the target drones I have been designing for decades many improvements are becoming "asymtotic", e.g. less and less stellar because we are so close to perfection. For example when the electronic piano or vibes voicse had no touch-response adding simple strike/loudness correlation made a
stellar difference. Now we have several samples for each tone to emulate the fact that a hard strike differs from a soft strike
not only in dB. I do not know after how many samples adding one more becomes futile. It is the old story called "diminished return on investment". For my ears there was little - except perhaps the drums - YAMAHA could do to improve the sound of TYROS 5.(the user memory was far too small and the memory implementation on Genos is a stellar improvement)
That said these rules do not (yet ?) apply to the user interface's ease of use and intuitivity of implementations. No doubt, screens have over the years been becoming bigger and bigger and better, but anyone using the Genos outdoors or in strong stage lighting will agree the screen is still far from "non-improvable" in spite of the touch-response which not all seem to percieve a stellar improvement.
No doubt, the more assignable buttons the better, but there are still a lot that have no lighting which can not be done by a software update just like making the position of the sliders corresponding to the actual setting which many users find confusing.
Whenever there is a discussion definition of ”what is what” is beneficial. There are things
1
in the software that are bugs like freezing. Whether that is easy to fix or not is hard to say. But it must be fixed (The service here fixed it for me)
2
less than perfect implementations that can relatively easily be fixed by a software update,
3
there are things that can only be improved by hardware alteration, e.g. in a new model GENOS II
If we get an OS update that fixes 1 and most of 2 I feel YAMAHA has delivered what we can and should expect. As to 3 and any other new capabilities that were not in the published specificastions YAMAHA HAS no obligation whatsoever. There have been a few hardware additions to products on the market, but they were not free. (memory expansions and the like)
Cheers
Kaarlo