Hello again 
Here are 7 examples of song styles I have put together. 8 hours is about average for putting one together. I have chosen one style from each decade. Each song was a number one hit except for “Peggy Sue”, which only got to #3.
Point is Yamaha could put styles like these together faster than I can. They need to hire 2 more people. Their keyboards should have a couple thousand song related styles included by now.
There are 340 million in USA verses 84 million in Germany, which is a 4 times difference in customer base. I know not all are country and schlager fans. But Yamaha is catering to the schlager fans a lot more than to the country fans.
Drake
-First of, great custom styles and examples (and performances)! Nicely done, Drake!
-That's what I'm trying to say; there *are* 1599 entries in the Genos 2 playlist (so almost 2000 songs you can play, out of the box), before even installing the DX7 and Completele expansion (which ups total number of styles on board from 800 to 911, *not* including other expansion packs, just what are esseitnally OS updates). Which ups the total number of playable songs to almost 2000, right out of the gate! (not including the dozen or so expasions for G1 that they've converted for G2. Which is the most *ever* of any keyboard out of the box!
Could they do more? Absolutely. But being #1 by a margin of more than 2 to 1 (Korg PA5x and Ketron event are both about 400). But wait, only 200 of the styles are actually new; the rest came from previous other keyboards and Clavinovas?! Well, same with the other 2 (Korg PA5x only has about 130 new styles out of the 400). So again, I agree they could do more, but they're already offering the most content by a large margin.
-I think you missed what we were pointing out; 336 mil pop only doesn't amount to 334m arrangers sold; the 83 mil in Germany actually sold over 1000 times the population of Canada (39 mil); if they were the same ratio, Germans would've only purchased double the number of Canadians. But it's over 1000 times! And again, you'd think the USA would sell 4 times more Genos than Germany, but Germany sold nearly 200 times more! To put that into % age, it means the average Canadian and American are just as likely to buy a TOTLA Yamaha arranger, but the average German is over 600 times more likely!
By the way, I have zero interest in Schlager myself. But have faith; launching with *only* 911 styles in the first month (again, the most ever), I'm sure there are more to come.
Your 8hr ballpark is correct (but obviously some will take longer, some might take less); I think their general strategy is *launch first* (so the launch isn't delayed any further) and then get local guys to do local styles; which makes sense.
After all, if it takes 8 hours ballpark to build a style, and they have 2 guys making styles, if they added another, say, 400 (which amounts to another 20 styles per category or so), that would be approx 3200 man hours, so ÷ 2 for 2 guys, ÷ 40 for 40 hours a week, the Genos 2 would've had to launch *40 weeks later* if Yamaha had done it that way. ie Genos 2 would've launched Sept of 2024 instead, and then we'd get people moaning it's been 7 years since G1!
Launching with *only* 911 styles, and then added them regionally, in order to launch sooner, makes sense, no?
Mark
