I had the same 'Memory Error' while playing and experimenting with the 'Style Assembly' function (firmware v1.30 at that time)…
Even with a very simple workflow (like 'select multiple parts from one style, copy them, paste them onto the current edited style) caused this error… In fact, the error was not systematically triggered, that's the most annoying part … sometimes it works, sometimes not…
As you said, not very professional from Yamaha…
And there's a bunch of other Bug or intentional but
nonsensical limitations on the current Genos Os (1.41 at time of writing)…
The one that bother me the most was reported to Yamaha since v1.02, but nothing has been done to correct it:
- Multiple assigned DSP with customized parameters are not properly saved into a Registration… (
only one of the DSPs retain its custom parameters, the others are saved into the registration with their default parameters….)
- In v1.10 they even
removed a button on the U.I. that allowed us to easily tweak the parameters of each DSP assigned to the same voice without having to do ugly and time-consuming workaround like today…. (
it clearly indicate that they knew that their implementation was buggy and instead of correcting it, they hide it ! )
Such a waste of Dsps power, I hoped that it would be fixed one day or another, as I see it as a
big flaw, but Yamaha has a different point of view ...
Ho, and of course the
suboptimal (
to be gentle) voice customization allowed by 'Yamaha Extension Manager' is another pain point, since the AWM2 specs are way beyond what is exposed on the YEM surface… I don't ask for a 'Montage-like' deep editing software, I knew from day 1 that the Genos is marketed as a 'Pro Arranger Workstation', but it fail to be 'Pro' and 'Workstation' as today… (
I saw several people sell their Genos, not because of the sound quality - which is awesome - but because of the lack of DAW integration, or lack of Seamless Sound Transition - a shame for such a price tag - or because they couldn't use it as is in live band play..)
A lot of issues could be corrected by Software update, but strangely Yamaha seems to be lazy and only add minor or very easy to add functionalities (
and ignore other really basic things btw: optional alphabetic sort in list, ability to choose the virtual keyboard layout - Azerty/Qwertz... ).
I really hope that with the release of the PSR-SX900/700 things are gonna change, since their OS is based on the Genos one…
The 'Half bar fill' function will likely be added to the Genos (so is the 'Chord Loop'), but while useful to a lot of people, some long-time ago spotted bugs are still here...
I know that my opinion is minority here, a lot of people are perfectly happy with their Genos today, and that's fine, but just as everyone has different musical ability, everyone has different technical ability and just want to go deeper into the more 'technical' aspect of their high price tag instrument
