Live Controls on the Yamaha GENOS

The GENOS has 6 Live Control Knobs and 9 Live Control Sliders.

The bright OLED display above the Live Controls has a cleaver design to show the assignable values of these 6 Knobs or 9 Sliders depending on which control you are operating.

The usefulness of this display is greatly expanded by the use of the Knob and Slider Assign Buttons. Each cycles through 3 pages. Essentially, you are getting access to (3 x 6) = 18 Assignable Knob parameters and (3 x 9) = 27 Assignable Slider parameters.

These Live Controls are completely missing on the CVP-609.

The 6 large and brightly lit Gateway Buttons makes it very easy to navigate.

• Home
• Menu
• Style
• Voice
• Song
• Playlist

They are missing on the CVP-609.

The GENOS has 6 Assignable Buttons. The CVP-609 has 4.

The GENOS is a well thought out instrument with ease of use as its top priority.

Functionally, the GENOS/RD-700GX combo surpasses the CVP-609 by a wide margin.