Since I can't get any of the current Genesys owners to send me any new samples to post to the site, I thought I'd go ahead and post some WK8 stuff over the next few weeks.

C'mon guys...We need to REPRESENT! GEM is getting lost in the Tyros shuffle.

(just kiddin')

I finally upgraded my computer at home so I can start recording. Here's the setup: WK8 going into the Mackie 1202 then using the tape outputs going into an old Kenwood cassette deck that has a 'monitor' button then the output of the tape deck going into the SBLive and recording with Sound Forge 6. My cable from the SB wasn't long enough to reach the Mackie direct (and I was too lazy to move my gear) and I really wanted to hear this so I compromised and went through the tape deck. Future recordings will have the keyboard going to the Mackie, then the SB.

Here's the WK8 playing the Moon River midi file from SVPworld:
http://genny.lib.umn.edu/wk8piano.mp3

Wow! What a difference in presentation comparing it to the Yamaha's.
http://www.svpworld.com/tyrospiano.htm

Where the Tyros puts you back in the hall listening on center, the WK8 puts you in the first row with the piano slightly to the right. Now before y'all jump on the 'no low end' band-wagon, listen to both again and ask yourself if the presentation of the Yami is realistic. I think it is...If you were sitting back in the hall allowing for the room to add to the bottom end (you hear this even more with the 9000Pro IMO). But in the same breath, I think that the WK8 sounds realistic considering that I'm right behind it. The bass fundamentals are there, just not to the degree of the Yamaha's (again, my opinion).

Let me know what you think.