Hi Lee,
What is so terribly wrong with just siting down and playing your Genos through the Audio recorder.
It gives a very good recording and people love listening to live recording to. It usually inspires us to go and try it ourselves and that is nice.
In my opinion people don't want to hear something sounding just like a recording you can go out and buy, they want to hear someone just sitting and playing there keyboard and not all these fancy add on's.
Give it a try.
There is nothing wrong with that...
However you tend to forget that everyone uses the Genos in his own way..
I will give an example of things people could use a daw for,,
When creating backings with the Genos, you want to be able to edit them, with modern tools like audio edditors, but also like a midi pianoroll..
Another thing people do using a Genos is making professional level recordings for use in the studio. Same story..
Now there are many things whcih still could be improved on the Genos, and everyone has their own opinion on them..
Daw integration like the montage has would improve some of them.
For me personally an ipad app (like they offer from yamaha for their piano range) that fills the holes with :
- remote display for music and lyrics
- real time sound edditor able to edit and create sounds in the Genos on the level of yem or even modx
- real time midi edditor, with piano roll, they could just use the Cubasis tools for this.
- an audio edditor, looper, slicer.
- data management tool, allowing direct management of usb data, but also of the expansion packs and sounds
- midi conversion tool, creating a style from a midi file..
- pattern sequencer used for sound creation
- integration of AUv3 running on ipad with the genos
- the functionallity of V-console, allowing you to assign the sequencer voices to left and right hand..
Etc etc etc... yamaha allready has many tools developed for ipad, all they need is to offer them in a dedicated package for The Genos.
All they need to make possible is the use of the USB interface for audio..
There are some rumors about this on a German website..
Because Cubasis 3.0 is just around the corner
Ipad OS 13 offers many many new options for programs like this.
The rumor ismpart of the Oktober Genos patch rumor..
All in all, just a rumor, but ome that would make me happy..
An ipad support app would fit the Genos much better for most users then fullfledged daw integration
And would fit Yamaha EU’s experience and profile better..
So many people, so many needs, thats also the problem the development team faces
Since they don’t openly communicate with the musicians in the way Yamaha US does,
They have a hard time to find out how important the userbase vouches certain improvements to be added, because of this.
Just check out on the Yamaha US synth forum owned by Yamaha how openly they discuss and help people there, its enlightening.
We need to look outside of our own situation, and ask ourself why would somebody else need this,
And look less to our own situation and aks ourselves why would i need this?