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Greetings from Chesterfield - I’ll be home Tomorrow. Great technique to use.

The soap you couldn’t remember was the legendary awful ‘Crossroads’ written by Tony Hatch

Love your videos Leigh, saving up to go from my much loved genos 1 to the 2. Colsy in Glasgow

Maybe in the future!

Is this Playlist & Registration in conjunction available for GENOS2 ? (I am a subscriber)

I’m considering the purchase of the Ketron Event or the Yamaha Genos 2. I have tried the Genos 2 and liked it, but I am interested in the Live instruments on the Ketron. I’m worried about the Ketron as there seem to be some issues. I am also worried about being able to change sounds quickly during a live performance. Anybody got experience of both keyboards?

Yes, this is one of my favorite way to use Multi Pads. I use this “trick” also for backing voices while soloing, but for the first time I was shocked by complexity and music euphoria while I had been recording the whole MIDI song. It was a pure pleasure even while recording. I like to mute piano/e.piano part and play piano style in this way. All keyboard to myself 😅 Best regards from Poland! 🇵🇱

Totally agree Leigh. Genos2 is my favorite arranger with sounds, styles, features and dependability rivaling anything else out there. Other than the hokey slider issue needing to be zeroed out whenever making slider changes, I love this creative, inspirational instrument.

Bună ziua!prin cablul midi pot conecta korg pa3x cu medeli akx10?vreau sa convertesc styleurile din korg pa3x direct in clapa medeli!mulțumesc anticipat!

I am so glad that I had found your videos about Genos 2 couple months ago. I had this pleasure to grab one for me and I am so happy! When I sit next to Genos 2 I already know that world won’t exist and time will stop for these hours and hours of pleasure playing. Sound of this instrument, the possibilities are just amazing. That’s true that there is always something to improve, but isn’t this an evolution of technology? Maybe some features will be even more improved, maybe not (those sliders - personally I like them as they are), but I know already that Genos 2 changed me musically, improve my improvisation, open huge possibilities. For me Genos 2 is almost perfect. I wish that in the future (maybe through some software updates or in Genos 3), there will be more “live control” over guitar strumming while playing guitar “without band”, some solutions with connecting harmony/arpeggio with Pads, and seamless voices changes from one to another. It would be wonderful if we’ll get also graphical piano roll interface to edit styles, phrases, chords. After all this instrument is perfect for me. I am enjoying it every time when I start to play, and every time I am blown away where it takes me among musical expression, pleasure, excitement and ecstasy. And the last thing I want to say is that I have some sort of luck, while I don’t recognize so many style, which are inspired by popular songs, so my creativity could be even more free and accessible than for some other people there. I agree that all of these can we use in everything else than those original ones. The key is musically and creativity (and maybe some good sheet music 😅). Best regards from Poland!

Hallo Leigh, ich genieße diese tolle Musik, klasse umgesetzt. Wie heißt denn der Titel ich komme nicht drauf. Von welchem Anbieter ist dieses Kenny Saxophone? oder ist das selbst arrangiert? Das klingt für diesen Song fantastisch.

Gloomy day in Seaford Sussex (near the Cuckmere Valley National Park) thanks for all your hard work on demonstrating this amazing keyboard.

That guitar tune from the telly was a soap set at a hotel , I can’t remember the name .

I remember thinking when watching the same video you mentioned, that he doesn't watch yours. His loss though 😂

Awesome idea and brilliantly demonstrated. Watching your videos from Sydney, Australia 🙂

Thank you Leigh, for another great tutorial video with your expressed opinions, which we appreciate. Great to see you back with another video (I have to say I was a little worried as you haven't posted a video for a few weeks). It is pleasing to hear you express, that although a lot of Yamaha styles are song specific, with creativity we can use them as you have suggested with muting tracks and making them more generic.

Love the video and the samples you play, it's inspirational !! Thanks, John from Zuidland, The Netherlands (With Genos 2)

Hi from Perth, Western Australia. I absolutely love your work.. And am sooo enjoying playing my Genos2. I just wish I had at least 1% of your talent.. But I do try to give it a go... 😁

Let's just face it, Yamaha is just ace! Even with my psr-s650, I've got some really great product. And it amazes me how Yamaha can improve on things that are already good. I use my keyboard a lot recently to create backing tracks for Songs where there isn't one available already, for stuff I do with my friends. I hope I can upgrade at some point to psr-s775 or something. Genos might be too much functionality for me. But just listening to this on your channel now, I'm going through what you go through when you play it. Edit, when it comes to strings, they really should default to using the ensemble string voices available on the psr-s650. They're all usable. I agree, the new strings lack this lushness and the chorus you get from real orchestras.

Hello Leigh, thank you for your effort and for your great videos 👍👍👍 Greetings from Germany

Yeah. I feel ya. I got a PSR530 and thought that was pretty sweet. This beast is on a whole nuther level. The voices have so much refinement and depth. If I had one you could lock me away forever with it (and a computer to record on of course)

Got to try it tomorrow, awesome, as a guitar player for almost 40 years I love improvising. Can I add multiple layers like that ? if yes how ? big thanks for all

I'm in the front room in Leicestershire and a fan.

That keyboard sounds freaking sick

Hola muy interesante pero quería saber si en genos cuando cambias de instrumento se corta el sonido. Gracias saludos

I'm on an oil rig in the middle of the North . I can't wait to get home to my Genos 1, which I only got the week before I came away...oh and the wife 😂 Jim

Great video. Please would you consider naming the songs as I rarely know what they are

It was Crossroads. Jim

Which is the Top Gun style Leigh? Love it!

Hi , totaly agree with you, I was going to write a comment on the vid you're talking about last day and redirect him to your amazing Ave Maria that you've done with a style. You're not stock at all ! Just take for example a style wich you don't recognise the song. I'm pretty sure, you'll play something good with it and you're not stock on! I've got this keyboard for 3 weeks now and Oh my, never heard something so natural , so easy to program, so ergonomic so versatile in the differents ranges of tones, styles and sounds. Ok it doesn't have wood on the sides, it's not made with alu, but come on guyz, the most important in a instrument is the sound ! and this thing got it ! I'll never regret to spend so much money for it.I just need someone who takes time to make an Excel list with all the style and their caracteristics (for example 4/4, 98 BPM...) not to pass 1 hour searching a rythm that suits the song I wanna play.😅

Hi Leigh, Nice to see you. About the styles:Totaly agree! You can use The Style Throwbackpop for the song As it was by Harry Styles,It works

Wow, that's beautiful

Great video Leigh, thank you

I got a Genos 2 cuz I wanted the song specific styles it has. I have a pa5x I’m more familiar with to make my own styles but for now I’ll use the Genos 2 style as they are. Thanks again Leigh. For making these videos. Jim

Thanks Leigh! There's always something to learn from your videos. 👏👏🙏💗

This instrument really is a beast to be reckoned with. Did you know there's a style called ElectroSwing in the Jazz category? I did, and all it's done is bring nothing but smiles and laughter to my face. I may not have the actual keyboard in my possession, but I've been able to start a bit of a project of sorts, where I take styles from the Genos 2 (and other keyboards) and adapt them for my DGX-670. The real I suppose, "daunting" thing about doing this would have to be the Revo drums (hi-hats especially), and the new MegaVoice velocity maps. Sometimes, it really helps a ton if you have the data lists of the respective keyboards. That along with MixMaster and OTS Changer, the programs I use, really helps give me wonderful results!

THANK you for this video! The only thing that makes an arranger sound "cheasy" is the person who plays it.

Love listening to your videos. I would love to have just a pinch of your tallent.

Well I can afford only Go:Keys5 for now but I am also still learning to play. I also have Modwave, MPC ONE+, Drumlogue. I think this combo will be enough to create any genre any music in excellent qality. I had used DAW to create 2 tracks but the goal is to move away from PC as much as I can. Reallife playing is so much fun and meditation. DAWless is the future! My father loves Yamaha he has one of the old PSR's and he would probably dream to have GENOS! Even me. :)

I have a Genos 1 and the keyboard is really inspiring. I've made several brand new original songs just by playing Genos and using its styles. I'm sure you'll recognize the styles if you listen to the songs. I posted some on my RUclips channel. Greetings from Novi Sad, Serbia. P.S. I am especially proud of the song Doomsday, which was written and sung by my children. (Otherwise they don't sing).

Could I create a phrase in the same way and then trigger it from my foot switch?

Listening to this from Porlock, Somerset in a tent while on holiday. It’s pouring with rain again today.

thing with Genos is you can make your own or change the styles i have found simply adding an guitar strum or changing the sounds makes it sound totally different.

Greetings from Serbia and thanks for the nice and useful videos.

Leigh very nice ...lol you definitely avoided the cheese trap everyone else falls into when playing Genos 2. I like the way you are using your musical skills to creatively build improvisations. This is melodic symphonic prog if we want to pin it to a genre. Bands like Neal Morse, Magenta and Kompendium play this stuff and I love it. Mainstream rock ballads then started using the same technique pioneered by the melodic symphonic progressive rock musician's. At one point I thought you were going to go full Neal Morse playing that rock guitar solo over a rock ballad style, while the multipad melody playing a duet with your solo, and shower us with a waterfall of melodic notes :) I saw one person using the multipads to add strumming guitar to any style. There are lots of different strumming variations stored in the multipad section. If you load one up and start playing any style, just hit the mutipad button to bring in another musician strumming an acoustic guitar to accompany you. You can bring him in and out at will and it always stays in sync with the style. I think there are 4 multipads so you can bring in 4 different musicians at any point each playing a different instrument. I imagine you can drastically change the sound of a style with layered multipads to pull it away from the song it is hard locked to. The permutations are endless. Unleash your creativity :)

Yamaha job interviewer: Can you make an acoustic instrument sound real? Job applicant: Fuck yeah! Yamaha job interviewer: You're hired.

Could this method be used to create intro for a song?

You make everything look so effortless! Pure genius! If we all had 1/2 your talent Yamaha would sell a gazillion of these!! Correction 1/10! Amazing skills…