Customizing sounds for different markets has always been a big issue. With the WK8, the majority of the sounds were in a ROM which could not be overwritten. The only area for placement of market-specific sounds was in the D-RAM, (which is where the sounds of the WK8 Arabic Kit are loaded). This limits the quantity and range of additional sounds which can be installed.

The new Genesys will completely resolve this problem since there is no ROM at all. Everything is stored in 64Mbytes of Flash and can be completely overwritten, (by an authorized programmer) from a CD. This was particularly exciting to Generalmusic's Arabic distributors at the recent Frankfurt fair since it means that they have absolute freedom to customize the sound library in whichever way they wish. The first Arabic versions of Genesys should start to appear around 6 months from now.

Chris