Originally posted by JoostMerema:
Yeah, you are right. But I have to conclude that other manifacturers succeed in producing a workstation for the same price as a Genesys, with colour / touchscreen. And I don't believe that GEM eg has very expensive buttons or something.
HardDisk recording, CDRW, Vocal Processor, Video outputs, Best sounding speaker system, high quality keybed, 200+ preloaded songs with lyrics, MP3 player. These all cost money, as well as the R&D cost that go into the instrument.
I presume that you mix two different functions. On one hand you have battery backed RAM, which stores the samples you load into it.
So, the user can only load samples in the RAM part; GEM also has acces to the Flash memory. These are two different things.
There is no RAM in the Genesys. Everything is flash.
Oh, one more thing about the MIDI file loading thing. You are right about the avarage user not editing a MIDI file alot. But is editing the MIDI file in the sequencer much harder than in the WKx? Hope not.
Honestly, I have never tried to edit a midi file using the WK/SK series instrument. I have on the genesys, is it is very stright forward (for an onboard seaquencer, it is the easiest to use out of every instrument I have worked with)
Who in this group wants to buy the thing? I hear alot of critics, and no really enthousiastic reactions. Why not?[/B]
I am as puzzled as you are. I know there are a lot of people that own genesys instruments, and love them. I personal love the instrument. My biggest complaint about the instrument is it's weight, which is being worked on. I think once the genesys PRO61 starts shipping you will hear more people in this forum talking about it. If you sit down with the instrument for sometime, and read the owners manual that was written in great detail and easy to understand (Thanks Chris!) you will be amazed at the power, and ease of use. This instrument is not a pretty WK or SK, sure, they took the parts of those instruments people loved, such as the seaquencer, but this is a new instrument, with expandiblity that no one knows about.
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