The Yamaha GENOS comes with 550 superbly arranged and mixed Factory Styles sorted under 15 Categories.
For anybody wanting to analyze or audition how any specific GENOS Style compares with their favorite arranger,
Michael Lumley has undertaken the monumental task of showcasing each and every one of these 550 Styles that you can audition on YouTube:
He has posted 15 videos each spanning an hour to two hours and 30 minutes in length.
Click on SHOW MORE to view the full description under each video.
Michael has gone the extra mile to index every video to jump to any specific Style within a Category.
1.
Pop Styles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS3fJ6m08Eg2 hours
2.
Rock Styles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBkNZoYzagQ1 hour
3.
Retro Pop Styles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMe93grtg0Q2 hours
4.
Oldies Styles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCJO2BYnUPw1 hour 40 mins
5.
Dance Styles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KlHMMGMbII2 hours 11 mins
6.
R&B Styles:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4xBZK6mi882 hours
7.
Entertainer Styles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jcuK1J5UE42 hours 30 mins
8.
Country Styles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQykOugw9fw1 hour 50 mins
9.
Jazz Styles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQmxbJ1KBt41 hour 30 mins
10.
Easy Listening Styles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9EdfA21IvM1 hour 48 mins
11.
Latin Styles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwSkvVgdols1 hour 30 mins
12.
Ballroom Styles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak0hldBYjUU1 hour 42 mins
13.
Movie & Show Styles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWHU1See_q42 hours
14.
Classic & Events Styles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGRH_0vpfKY&t=59s1 hour 12 mins
15.
Traditional & Folk Styles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuyQHjY4qSs2 hours
That is 27 hours of back to back Yamaha GENOS Styles – all professionally voiced and rendered by various Yamaha programmers from around the world!
Once you realize the sheer volume of work that went into crafting these styles you begin to understand why the Yamaha GENOS Arranger is priced so much higher than the Yamaha MONTAGE.
You must have a way to recoup the cost of creating these styles taking full advantage of the capabilities and effects of the sound engine of every new arranger model.
Above all, it is the quality of the Styles that can make or break an Arranger Keyboard.
The Yamaha GENOS has about 200 Arpeggio Patterns. This makes the MEGA Voices playable.
The Yamaha MONTAGE on the other hand comes with a massive library of 10,239 Arpeggio Presets. This makes the MONTAGE the reigning king of Arps.
The R&D has already gone into the MONTAGE to create this set.
I would like to see all these Arps transferred to the next generation GENOS.
I would also like to see the Voice Expansion capacity doubled from 3GB to 6GB.
With so many free expansion packs from Yamaha, there is hardly any space left to load a multi-gigabyte Piano Sample.
Hats off to
Michael Lumley for his efforts to showcase each of these 550 Yamaha GENOS Styles.
I was shocked when I looked at his YouTube Channel - KeyboardKrazy49
https://www.youtube.com/user/KeyboardKrazy49/videosHe has over 500 videos documenting every Yamaha Arranger his has owned over the past 10 years with helpful tips and tricks and comprehensive tutorials.
Here are a couple of his Tutorials on the GENOS:
Yamaha Genos Keyboard Tutorial - Some Of The Basic & Intermediate Functions / Features:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAdNuIC49KIYamaha Genos Keyboard Tutorial 2 - Some Of The Advanced Functions / Features:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNd5lmfOD0oThis is a work of passion.It is the enthusiasm and support from fans like Michael that has helped to make the Yamaha GENOS the top Arranger Keyboard in the world.
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