Hi everyone.
Waiting, as probably many are too, for Yamaha to re-ship these two PSR keyboards again, since last October fire at a microchip factory in Japan.
I traded 2 years ago - for financial reasons - my beloved GENOS for the MODX7 and... regreted it... I've owned many keyboards in my life and the Genos was the most fun, easy to play and record, creative keyboard I have ever owned. But since I needed to fix my finances, I had to sell it. I also love eletronic music (trance, etc), and found out at the time I would not need all those Waltz, Rock, Country, etc. styles from the Genos. But while that was true, I forgot the ease of recording, ease of selecting or layering sounds, ease of finding what you want only the Genos had... Dont get me wrong, the MODX is a terrific synth - for sound making -, but does not have the super-easy sequencer of the Genos (multitrack recording) nor the "ready-to-use" sounds the Genos has. The MODX has 1300 sounds but many are "special effects" sounds that are simply not usuable when you want to compose. You need clean and simple sounds if you want to compose, not super-intricated and full of "movement" sounds the MODX has. Also the MODX sequencer is... terrible in its complexity, to the point you simply quit to using it at all. So all in all a great synth if you mainly want to "make" and tweak with sounds. Finally the Genos FSX keybed is the best I have ever played. But that comes with a very steep price also...
Back to reality
and meanwhile I have a question for the fellows here in the forum. As many of you may have guessed by now I am selling my MODX7 to be able to afford a PSR SX700, but I just love the MODX keybed. Super easy and quiet to play, especially very easy/soft to play near the top of the black keys (usually a very stiff zone in the majority of all keyboards).
My question for SX700/900 owners is: are the black keys on these keyboards soft/easy to play when you play near the top of the key ?
Thank you and please to meet everyone here for the first time.
Eduardo (from Portugal)