The arranger is on its way out (It will soon just be a niche market like the organ that the easy play arranger came from) and Yamaha know this, so they bring out a top notch arranger (So as to keep the current old fogies happy) and add workstation features to entice a younger audience, however, it is just a first step in what will take a number of years
Thats exactly my point...
They didn't add any real workstation features
They just say they did..
- No deep edditing on board..
- A near useless live controll section, because you can not assign 95% of the parameters you would want to add
- just 216 different arps.. only 1 at a time.. and no room for user created ones. (The €300 mx synth has 2000 of them and room for saving user stuff
- the same old linear sequencer.. there is a reason the youth is using Fl studio and ableton live or korg gadget or whatever..
Can you tel me what workstation features did they add?
I can tell you... exactly none at all... that werent allready in T5
I think the future is a workstation (like the Kronos) , with added arranger features, ....and ipad and pc (daw/vst) integration of the highest level... integration by combining a system like NI komplete kontrol, with the audio over USB from the Montage..
I dont know if anyone knows the program V-console for Tyros 5...
Which shows some pc integration... if they would add VST support to it... and route the audio back tothe Genos/Tyros... that would be a huge step...
Or audiobus 3 on the ipad... create an app that runs on the ipad, sends and receives audio and midi. And suppports audiobus 3
If you want the youth... give them a workstation that integrates perfectly with all the things they are allready using...
And the same goes for composers... Yamaha tries to push the Genos as a perfect scratchboard for composers. But the only tool they get is an arranger and a build in sequencer... but no integration whatsover with their daw... there shouls be an easy way(like montage has) to send a project from the local sequencer.. to the DAW... like montage connect...
Its not fair pushing the montage as a workstation... and not giving the people the tools that are allready created and maintained by yamaha ... to use the Genos as a serious extension of their studio..
If you say A... you need to say B to...
And not like Yamaha typicaly does create a 10 year long road from A to B...