Dreamer, I agree with you on the matter that we are here to share experience with one another, But since I own a Genesys and have been giging with it for over a month now, I can tell you that people are impressed with the sounds of this keyboard,and I think that's what counts, not what we like but if the audience where pleased or not and I perform in the top Hotels in my country.I don't know what kind of demo you had on the genesys but I think you are a wee bit wrong about it, I have been using Gem products for some time now, and like all other keyboards you have to get use to it's system. I don't agree with what you said about the ballroom music. that is one of my speciality, cause I play every Saturday for people who come for ballroom dancing. One thing I want to point out is that it is important that you hear a keyboard not in a shop but at live performance and with anampliefied PA system.
about the Hard Disk recording it's true what you said that you have to take it in one take, but the result is outstanding and very pro. here we are talking for a quick setup, you can never compare any editing on a keyboard to a COMPUTER non of the keyboards that exist can do what a computer can do, we all know that. but for a quick recording it is great and with good results, about editing is non-existent you have just two editing facilities but they work very good, 1 is remove or add silence at the beginig and end, and Normalise VOLUME where the volume will be increased or decreased. these are both for .WAV and Sample sounds.
I would like to point out this thing about GEM keyboards, I don't know what system they use on Korg and yammy but with Gem if you don't understand that you can set the reverb for every instrument you have in the mix you are playing, the result will be a disaster. unfortunatley when you go for a demo they play everything as it comes from the company and not to your likining so that's why most of you make the wrong judgment, I am talking now from my experience I wish I could be in the states to show you what I mean. I sometimes download midi files (cause I use them for my singing) and when I set the reverbs and tweek with a wide facility of editing they sound 100 times better, to give you one example.About the hard disk true small and let me correct you about the capacityit it is 1.4 gig and not 2 but if you want can upgrade it to 10 gig's.About the [state of the art] keyboard, that is for live performing, you can't take a computer with you to performe, although now you find who use Leptops, I thought here we comparing keyboards and not computers.

I'm glad you are satisfied with your psr don't get me wrong got nothing about yamaha keyboards, but my point was from the beginig that genesys is a great keyboard and it is not getting what it deserve, So you have to make more pressure in the US so there will be it's availabilty and I myself am going to contact a friend of mine in Gem company to try to get him and come to this forum if possible so we can have a first hand on this wonderful keyboard.