Hi spalding:
I have had my Genesys pro for about 10 months but had a SK 760 for 6 years prier to getting the Genesys pro. I like Gem because a few years ago they seemed to be ahead in the technology on keyboards. But now they seem to be falling behind. One example is having USB.

I use it for live performances and for production. My personal work is in the jazz style but I have produce for other artist using the Genesys sequencer and hard disk recorder when they need a quick audio file of their music. I would then transfer the wave to a computer using sound forge and adjust the EQ, normalize and clean it up so one song flows well from the other. .

If you record vocals on the Genesys, you have to do it all at once with the music. There is no way to edit it after it is recorded. I think it is the same way on the Korg. It is basically like a tape recorder recording every thing at once.

I have not have any problems with the battery life on my Genesys pro. In fact, I had to leave my Genesys pro in the case for about 7 days and when I put it back on everything was still in ram. I have heard about that problem with the Genesys (with speakers) but I don’t know if they had fixed that.

For what you want to do with the keyboard, I think you are on the right track in looking at the Genesys and the Korg. Those are the only keyboards around today that can do all that you want.

Again sounds are very subjective.
The Korg sounds sound good but only if you use the right effects on them. The Genesys sounds are not bad; it is just my personal choice for the Korg synth sounds. Hopefully you have heard the demos for the Genesys. Also, you can quickly edit the parameter of a sound on the Genesys.

I have used the sampler to sample sounds from CDs and to load different wave files. It is not a computer sampler so it is very limited. You can get away with some very basic sound sampling but you will not be able to do any advance sampling. It all depends on what specifically you want to do. I don’t even think the Korg has much of an advantage in this area other than more sample memory.

Both the Genesys and Korg are heavy keyboards. The learning curb on the Korg I have heard is steep but the Genesys is very easy to use.

There are some bugs with the Genesys where a note would sustain for no apparent reason and there is no way to get it off other than switching off the keyboard. Also, the loop function in the sequencer would sometimes frees the keyboard and you have to restart the keyboard.

After you sequence a song, the song can stay in ram so when you take the keyboard and put it back on, the song will still be there. However, you must remember to save a song after you are finished with it because there can sometimes be a problem where songs will not play in ram the way you made them.


All in all if I had to choose between a Genesys and the Korg as a primary keyboard, I would choose the Genesys because of its ease of use, no touch screen and its completeness in having everything onboard on the keyboard.
TTG