Dear forum members,
There has been a discussion here about the better or worse keyboard for a while now, and I wish this and that in future keyboards etc… .
I think very few people understand how difficult it is to more or less meet customer needs. The current top-arranger keyboards, mainly Yamaha & Korg which are at a very high level and excel in sound quality, it is very difficult to make the instrument sounds even better, the current “Articulation” functions in Tyros 4,5-Genos , Korg Pa 1000-3x-4x-5x is a good example of this but has its limitations. For example the comment of someone who said that the Sax in Pa5x was nothing, let a real saxophone be played by 5 different music sides, it will sound 5 times different! For example, phrasings that are performed on acoustic instruments can only be imitated to a very limited extent on a keyboard.
A final example are the drums, the Revodrums in Yamaha & Round Robin drums in Pa5x. Although the drums in Pa4x were already very good compared to Genos, Korg has built this in too, you can see that brands are looking to each other to stay close to each other when it comes to competition.
We as customers can only benefit from it.
As for the arrival of a possible Genos 2, if Yamaha doesn't even finally make an effort to properly take care of the outside and keyboard and like Korg brings good Pianos and finally good organ drawbars on board, they can better stick to the current Genos and bring some good updates. Yamaha has the technology in CP and YC models. On the other hand, if Korg still does what has been proposed for the new Pa5x, Yamaha will have to shift up a gear if they don't want to lose customers. Korg already had a very good Midi to Style converter in Pa4x (Creatorbot), a very extensive Sound & Style editor, etc., things that were interesting for the more professional music side. These things and several others will be available again in the next Korg Pa5x upgrades. So Yamaha be warned!!!!
