Nowadays nvme SSDs with hundreds of Gigabytes and stellar transfer rates costs peanuts. With 50 € you can buy a Chinese smartphone (a Genos too is Chinese) with 16 Gb of storage (plus ram, quad core CPU, screen, battery, GPS, gyroscope,..... added on top for free).
Less than 4Gb of storage (worth probably 10 cents) in a 4k€ device is simply ridiculous.
But when a Montage USB transfer speed tops at 30 kbytes/sec (only ten times a 1983 midi cable) then you realise that they are 40 years behind the state of the art.
Maybe your nephews in 2060 will enjoy 2020 tech.
Ah, they add 16 gb to smartphones just because they can. You can make a perfect phone call even with an old fashioned electromechanical phone (those with the numbers around a sliding ring). The voice is strong and clear, and the ringtone is loud!! You cannot miss it.
Those are very different technollogies...thats indirect accessible memmory
Meaning the procesoor can”t access it directly..
What we see on keyboards is direct accessible flash ram..
Thast something totally different
And much more expensive..
There is 8Gb inside the Genos i believe..
There is 4 GB for internal sounds and 4 GB for external (3GB of it for samples)
The only thing that Yamaha could do is moving all the free expansions to the internal ROM part (which actually is flash ram)
There is only 2.5GB of samples in Genos internal ROM, so basically they could free up 1.5GB of the expansion RAM, if they wanted to..
They could alos decide on expanding the internal memmory with new sounds, like a Bosendorfer Piano, and whatever people would like
But thats about it i guess...
When you look at other high end hardware instruments, Yamaha isn”t doing to bed with the Genos.
Montage only has 2GB, MODX has 1 GB
And Korg PA4x also has 3GB
Ketron has 750 MB in their top product SD9
Kurzweil Forte has 16GB, from which 3GB are for user samples..
Nord has 2 GB for piano and 500MB for other samples..
Does everyone see the pattern by now?
The only exception is Korg Kronos, which has around 30GB for external samples..
But thats because Korg is the only company using a different technollogie (sample streaming from disk) which as slightly more latency
So why do you think this is the case?