By now we all know the Genos, Yamaha's flagship keyboard. With its unmatched sample quality, advanced styles and professional-level connectivity, the Gewos sets the standard for songwriting and performance keyboards. With its large, bright 9" LCD color touchscreen, assignable knobs and faders with their own OLED parameter status displays for real-time feedback, and a silky smooth 76-note, aftertouch-enabled FSX keyboard, the Genos gives you complete control so you can instantly find and tweak the perfect sound or cobble together a great-sounding arrangement in any musical genre. And the sounds are indeed great.
A heavenly sound
Yamaha's CFX and C7 concert grand pianos are stunning for their lifelike realism. Recorded in world-class studios. The drums use unprecedented multidynamic sample layers and round-robin wave cycling to deliver the most breathtakingly realistic MIDI drums ever offered in a keyboard. The various instruments are superbly reproduced by Yamaha's acclaimed Super Articulation 2 sound engine. All sounds benefit from multiple state-of-the-art effects engines. Complemented by extensive onboard MIDI and audio recording facilities and seamless DAW integration, the Yamaha Genos is the only keyboard you need to bring an important performance to fruition.
Authentic ensemble performances
The Ensemble Voices feature re-creates string, brass and wind ensembles by intuitively setting the instruments in their proper ranges for authentic-sounding ensemble performances. Previously, a Voice such as Brass Quartet used a sample of four players. However, if you played two notes, you suddenly had eight players - which can be cool, but may not be entirely realistic. In the Genos, with Ensemble Voices, you always have the same number of players, because Yamaha has incorporated the musical knowledge of a professional music arranger into this instrument. Play two notes with a Brass Quartet Ensemble Voice, and Genos intelligently sends the trumpets to the highest notes and the trombones to the lower notes. We love that!
Enhanced DSP for studio-quality effects
Yamaha designed the Genos with enhanced DSP for a feast of studio-quality effects that sound simply stunning. Included are lifelike models of coveted vintage rack and stompboxes, as well as classic guitar and bass amps - all of which take full advantage of the stunning 9" TFT color LCD touchscreen with intuitive, high-definition displays that mimic the real devices. These great-sounding effects include Yamaha's VCM (Virtual Circuit Modeling) - the same technology used by studio-grade processing on the company's high-end digital consoles.
Handles huge arrangements with ease
When it's time to record vocals, plug your condenser microphone into the XLR jack on the rear panel, turn on 48V phantom power, and you're ready to work with a studio-grade signal chain whose quality is unprecedented for a keyboard. As you layer your compositions, the Genos will amaze you with its ability to handle huge, lavish arrangements with balance and panache. A generous polyphony of 256 voices ensures that no notes are stolen. And with instant access to 1,652 instrument presets and 58 drum kits, you'll never run out of killer sounds. For quick access to your favorite configurations, Registration Memories provide an efficient way to store and recall panel settings such as Voice, Song, Pattern and Style.
Specifications:
- Yamaha Genos
- keyboard workstation
- 76 keys (FSX) with initial touch and aftertouch
- polyphony: 256 notes
- sound generation: AWM Stereo Sampling
- number of sounds: 1652 + 58 drum/SFX
- with 76 ensemble / 75 S.Art2! / 390 S.Art! / 82 MegaVoice / 160 Live! / 82 Cool! / 40 Sweet! / 24 Organ Flutes! / 10 Revo! Drums/SFX
- expandable sound memory
- preset styles: 550 (491 Pro / 39 Session / 10 FreePlay / 10 DJ)
- recorder: 16 tracks
- 9 sliders (1 assignable), 1 crossfader
- 6 control buttons
- pitch bend and modulation joystick
- Audio Styles: audio tracks instead of MIDI accompaniments
- DSP processor with studio-quality effect modules
- 5-band master equalizer
- Multi Pads: 448 banks x 4 Pads
- very extensive reverb, chorus, layer and split effects
- Vocal Harmony and Synth Vocoder
- adjustable 9 inch TFT color display (VGA resolution)
- USB audio recorder with simple and multitrack recording
- records in WAV format and plays back MP3 files
- time stretch, pitch shift and vocal cancel
- internal memory: ~58 GB
- manual, power cable and music stand included
- dimensions: 1234 x 456 x 138 mm
- weight: 13 kg
Connections: - XLR combo jack for microphones (with or without phantom power)
- aux-in (2 x 6.3 mm jack)
- main line-out (2 x 6.3 mm jack)
- sub out (2 x 6.3 mm jack)
- sub out / aux out (2 x 6.3 mm jack)
- headphones output (6.3 mm jack)
- 3x pedal input (6.3 mm jack, assignable)
- digital out (S/PDIF)
- MIDI IN/OUT (5-pin DIN)
- USB-to-host (1 x) and USB-to-device (3 x)