Am I wrong, one cannot have electrical value and physical position of a slider correspond without motorized faders. Digital wheels let you start correctly where you are but do not show the actual position physically just as the wheel on Genos. The motorized mixer did cost much more than the Genos now, but even Behringer's motorized mixer made in China like Genos is not cheap.
Hi Kaarlo,
It is a simple thing to show the 'position' of a rotary encoder by surrounding it by a ring of LEDs.
These can be illuminated in different ways, e.g. only at the current position (like the marker line on a knob), or up to the current position, but whichever way is chosen, it allows the 'knob' to show the current position corresponding to the control setting, and more importantly start from that setting (without any jumps!) when you make changes to it. Whenever you load a different style, voice, etc. the controllers can immediately indicate the current settings without the need for motors or whatever to actually move the position.
Yamaha are well practised in the use of rotary encoders - they are on the Montage for example, but for some reason, they insist on sticking with analogue rotary and linear (slider) potentiometers on the arrangers, which are more or less useless for live use.
I assume that they think that sliders make the product look more 'professional'

However I would much prefer something that actually worked and could be used!
Here is a link to a video demonstration of Montage. It is not specifically about rotary encoders, but it does show them and how they indicate their position. In the video they are being 'moved' automatically by the Super Knob, which is itself being automatically varied by the sequencer. However the position indicator LEDs for each encoder would respond in the same way if its position was changed by hand.
https://uk.yamaha.com/en/products/music_production/synthesizers/montage/index.htmlAs you say, its too late to get such common sense on Genos at this stage, but maybe on Genos2? Somehow I doubt it since it never seemed to occur to Yamaha during the whole lifetime of the Tyros models!
I eventually bought Genos suspecting that I would be disappointed with its usability, and I got exactly what I expected.
This 'bug fix' 1.40 does little to change my opinion!
I am waiting a while before installing it to see if it contains any little 'bombs' that Yamaha have included with it, intentional or otherwise! For starters, how about the removal of the main voice parts On/Off from the list of functions assignable to a pedal. It seems that you can now only assign this function to an assignable button (which is only a few inches away from the actual voice part panel switches)! Sensible, or what?
Regards
Ian