Thank you Donny

Thanks for sharing the demo Donny. That Genos is certainly a powerhouse!
Mitch

Be interesting to check if some of the styles are on the SX, or whether all 50 are brand new.

Your very welcome Mitch

I didn't hear more than a couple of styles I would ever use. They are well done though. Enjoy!

Stunning.

Yamaha seems to have the financial clout to eventually seriously overpower everything else out there. I have noticed this over the years how much they have caught up and now overtaken.

If their current generation is amazing already, just think of the next one to come, nobody else will stand a chance, not even Ketron.

Danny does that mean it's time for a Genos?..

I will be honest.

I am lucky, and blessed, to have a highly paid job as an IT Technical Support with over 31 years experience. So therefore, money is of no issue to me with regards to keyboards. I have been close to getting the Genos but I just don't know where to put it.

If there was a 61 version of it, I'd have one already. I have contemplated many times but its huge, I won't be able to fit it in my room without completely re-arranging it.

That's why the SX900 is perfect, it sounds almost as good plus is so compact.

Not only with arrangers, pianos and Clavinovas. We spend time every year in a 55 + golf cart/course community. I have no statistics but the there seems to be more Yamaha golf carts than any other brand.

Donny thanks for posting that video.

I understand the style packs are for a wide range of styles.

I heard 2 maybe 3 that I would use in my play,, But not enough that I would replace what I am using.

Now what I have heard on line there are many factory styles I would use.. Would it be worth me paying $2,500 for a Genos , most likely (That is the price it will have to be found for me to consider).. Poor retiree

I will use quite a few styles from this pack for sure.... So many good ones.

Very good point. Space is an issue for some folks, myself included. In my setup, the keyboard is on a stand with wheels and slides under my work table. 76 would not fit.



And it has speakers to boot.

Don't fool yourself sx900 and genos are very different in many ways...

+1

l recently tried the SX900 which l liked, but much prefer having 76 keys as l like the extra keys when it comes to splitting part 3 and having 2 separate sounds for the right hand.

The keybed on the Genos is on another level for me personally, and much prefer that to the 900 too

Not in sound quality.

Amen to that. Even if I won a Genos in a contest, I'd sell it. I felt the same way about all the Tyros models. Now that the keys are playable - the SX fills a niche in my world that the Genos, simply cannot.

I can't agree.. Sorry

Well, only a very few I would use...for my kind of music...but all were certainly well done.
Lee

Hi,
I think the styles sound great, but very few that I would use.

Same really goes for the style library I put together tyros and psr styles, out of the 200 or I’d probably only use 10 to 20%.. but they’re , there if needed.

The styles are designed to suit a large array of tastes.

Pity we can’t pick and choose. Haha

That's OK, you don't have to say sorry, after all I have never seen a Genos but you had both. I can only base what I heard via the many Genos demos. And if I am not mistaken, in one of the demos I posted a while ago, I think it was an AC Hamilton demo of SX900 vs Genos the guy said the styles between the two sounded very close to almost identical, and this was good enough for me.

I am already playing more than half of those styles faithfully on my baby PSR S770 - Now this is where Yamaha shines. The excitement never stops! And this has always been so over at the Yamaha camp - they willingly/unwillingly simply allow their huge client base to take advantage of their offerings as this promotes their product even more. I would not hesitate for a second to purchase a Genos when I can finally afford to do so despite already playing most of the styles rather faithfully on my much cheaper Yamaha product.

Imagine if Ketron made it possible to play the SD9 styles on the Audya as they could very easily be made to do so.

Two different brands with two completely different approaches. Need I tell which approach netts the most financial gain? Some just cannot or would not learn learn from their main competitor...

Hi Henni, I didn't realise that the Ketron's aren't compatible between each other anymore, as that really reduces the amount of flexibility you have. I remember when I had the X1, I'm pretty sure on the HD it had the previous MS back catalogue of styles which worked fine. So it's a shame if Ketron has stopped that. I agree with you that Yamaha's range of styles are huge, you could say almost unlimited.

DannyUK,

If you go to KETRON's official website, you can get styles that KETRON have made available from one unit to another. Feel free to download the one appropriate for your unit. It is work in progress ...

Thanks,