Welcome back! We missed you. My Genos 2 arrived and I am over the moon with it

When you turned the tubular bell off, I instantly thought: "Chariots of Fire"! :)

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…

CVP-809 gp owner here. But so much is similar. Thank you for this. I do this all the time and get asked what arrangement I’m using. Adding a drum track to Free Styles really throws them off. Sharing tracks from one style to another via style creator makes this all infinitely possible. Thanks for sharing. Now if they’d add a second layer option to the CVP SERIES it will change my world.

The Genos 2 for a few days at home, I was happy with the sx900, but what a world of difference, you haven't said a word too much about how great the quality of the Genos 2 is and how you can make subtle changes in the accompaniments to to make everything sound natural and musical. And how it helps to create your own songs. Thank you for recommending the Yamaha HS speakers. I also purchased the epic strings 2 at the same time. I am a classical/jazz pianist. For gigs with other musicians I use the Kawai ES920, which far exceeds the piano in the Genos 2 in terms of piano sound and touch. I notice that the vocal harmonizer in the Genos 2 is much more responsive than that of the SX900. I look forward to your next inspiring video. Thank you from the Netherlands.

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.

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

Leigh, you are so right. These videos are a source of knowledge, talent and demonstrated inteligence from you, wich I prefere to "emotional" content. Keep them playing!

Just absolutely brilliant again Leigh. I don't have one but as you go along I can think of so many songs with the styles, even those that I had forgotten. I'm an old, old guy now I'm afraid.

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... 😁

Well said Sir on the difference between an arranger and synth 😊 Excellent presentation as always 👍🏻

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!

I think you’re thinking of the theme to “Crossroads Motel”… very much enjoying all of your Genos 2 content.

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

Absolutely Great Video and terrific demo with a fabulous machine - thanx Leigh well done mate :¬). (P.S. Crossroads)

It's in the hands, and what you can do with it. My respect for your skills. Always nice to see and hear

Great video Leigh, thank you

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.😅

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.

Hi Leigh, thanks for pointing out the Gentleman Schlager for the 1982 Eurovision song; I found the Oldies Schlager Polka style works well for Griechischer Wein Udo Jurgens.

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

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

As a gospel musician Yamaha has made a lot of style catering to many popular gospel songs but for the lesser known songs I have to do that a lot of mixing in order to use styles without making it obvious of the song it was made for. I also like to do that to bring new life for older Hymns.

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

Thank you and regards from Fuerteventura.

Thank you Leigh for your common sense words on a certain video that has appeared in recent days. Respectfully to the individual involved, it does appear that he seems to have missed the point a little. I did leave a comment myself suggesting an alternative way of approaching ‘soundalike’ styles mentioning pretty much everything you’ve covered here. So far no word back. 😢. In fairness, the complexity behind professional style writing is considerable and understood by few . I can’t imagine how one could ‘simplify’ it from a technical point of view. But who knows what the future might bring 🤔

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.

Hi Leigh, totally agree 110% with you on this one! Funnily enough I saw the video you were referring to the other day and thought what a load of-/;;(x , btw I think the sit com was cross roads, anyway catch up soon, all the best, Scott.

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

I’ve always loved Yamaha arranger keyboards. Easy to play almost instantly. My only gripe is the OTS presets always seem to have strings set as one of them when it doesn’t suit the style selected in the least.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

Crossroads with Noel Gordon

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.

It was Crossroads. Jim

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 know you have done a few videos with the psr sx900 but wonder how you would compare the quality of the the sounds and styles of that unit to the Genos 2. I'm in the market but the Genos 2 is outside my price range. Are the sounds and features close to the genos 2 or will that unit be a disappointment after hearing the genos 2? Thank you for all of your videos. All are well done, entertaining and informative!

Can you explain the différence between styles and registration memory please thanks

Crossroads 🤣🤣🤣 Meg Richardson played by Noelle Gordon

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 KZfaq 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).

I don't agree with the older Tyros models sounding dry. Yamaha have always leaned to a very processed sound in their keyboads, where eg. Korg was more dry and "in your face" sounding. I think what is the difference here is that the Revelation is so much better than legacy reverb effects so it just sounds so much better overall. It's kinda weired it's completely oposite if you go back to the 90's with Sampled Pianos. Yamaha sounded much more "clean" and realistic than eg Roland Pianos that was way overfocused on especially the bottom and top end which at first makes you think they sound great, but when you then compared it to a Yamaha you got a much more realistc acoutic sound. Today most top end E Pianos sound really nice mainly because sample memory isn't an issue anymore and they all have like 10-12 dynamic layers of full length samples and added stuff like sympathetic ressonance and key-off and pedal noise. Thats around at least like 1000+ samples for a single sound.

Thanks for these. I don’t have one but it’s growing on me. I learned in the mid 70s on organs and then did the clubs for 30 yrs on Hammonds, I sold my tyros 3, Nord C1 organ and Roland PK-5 pedals when I left UK to come here to the U.S., I really miss playing pedals! Having control of which bass note I prefer. Wasn’t you going to do a video of using pedals? Can’t remember? Linking to a bottom board with pedals would be a clincher for me, Genos 2 plus HS8s is in the $7000+ range here which a LOT of money. I’m working on it though! Enjoy your channel!

Cześć Leigh 😉 Nie mogłem się doczekać Twojego kolejnego Recitalu, patrzę na YT i jest Leigh ! ;)! Super, dobry wieczór będzie;) mam też G2 i się wiele uczę od Ciebie , jesteś profesorem tego instrumentu, twoja gra mnie inspiruje i pewnie Ci nie dorównam nigdy .. jesteś moim idolem - wszystkiego najlepszego Ci życzę, bywaj zdrów przyjacielu zza oceanu 😉 Andrzej z Oświęcimia -Poland 🇵🇱🇺🇲