Hmmm. Ok I admit it, I am somewhat curious. Has it been released yet and if so how much is the going price ? Has anyone heard or tried one yet ?

Korg AJ

Will Genesys include synth and sampler?

Is this an arranger? no refference was made to having any styles.
Mario

Yes it is an arranger with 200 styles.
But it's ugly, very ugly.
I'm wondering if amongst all the things it does at GEM are trying to figure it out how can this Genesys can make coffee too.
Come on, it's a ripped off KB a bit from Korg, a bit from Yamaha, a bit from Roland thats why it's so ugly and the sounds God knows how it will sound. It's to havy even to just take it home from the KB shop! Sorry I didn't meant to be mean and I don't want to offend GEM players or whoever likes the GEM styles and sounds, I'll be waiting maybe 10 more years before I'll consider to buy a GEM keybord, maybe by that time will be slimmer and lighter and it will contain something not ripped off from other keyboards.

Maximo

Maximo,

The features that Genesys has are the features we asked for it. So ultimately, we, the customers, are to be blamed for these features. Some of them could have been adapted from other keyboards, but many others are new. For example, all flash memory is very new.

I personally vote that Casio is the most beautiful looking keyboards, but this is clearly not an indication of features and quality.

The real concern is with daily live performers who prefer a lighter keyboard. But otherwise, I submit to you, that this the ultimate keyboard for now. But in the future, there will be lighter versions. If this is the case, there is no point of shopping around. Just go and pick up one of those new keyboards and start making music.

Gem is usually two years ahead on the competition.
None of the features are coming from other brands, their earlier wk series have everything yamaha/roland/solton came later with.
Still today there's no arranger which can beat the sequencer f.i.
The styles is a matter of taste.

As the genesys is completely renewed in all aspects I would not be surprised if this board beats any arranger on the market today.

It should be available end of may in europe and somewhere in june in usa..

GEM Genesys is also marketed as Solton SG-1. Check out http://www.mira-multimedia.de/Ketron/neuheitenmesse02/sg1.pdf


Henry


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AHA,

Thanks for the link. It actually answers my above questions. Yes, genesys has all of the above.

Now, that answers when my friends who strongly insisted that GEM makes ketron keyboards, at least the most vital important parts.

Thanks

SK880user,

Solton is a distributor in Germany that sells GEM and Ketron products. And they put their name "Solton" on both GEM and Ketron products. What you see in the link above is a GEM Genesys with Solton's private label SG-1 on it. Ketron is NOT Solton; and Solton is NOT Ketron. Ketron is the manufacturer that makes SD1, X1, XD9 etc. Ketron does not make the Genesys!

Henry

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