Good ole Woody's magic! 22 minutes video that you watch from start to finish. Can't wait for other videos on Genos.

As a guitar player primarily, that nylon string is scarily great! Wow. 😬😀

This is going to be a great video, looking forward to watching it. I really like Yamaha, I had a few models throughout the years and never been disappointed with them, enjoyed every model that I had from Yamaha.

Love Woody's easy and down to earth approach.. a breath of fresh air compared to others. Well done Woody

Great demo, Woodie - I learned more *useful info about Genos 2* than in the longer Yamaha demos I've watched.

I just purchased a DGX 970B. For the money, I am quite pleased with that for just over $1000 (w/ stand and 3 pedals) vs. this Genos 2 for ~$6000. To me, after watching this nice demonstration, the G2 would need to do much more to justify an increase of $5000. More buttons, dials and fancy external speakers don't mean any more fun or desirability! I have mine run through my home stereo and it absolutely makes EPIC music! It helps I live in the country and my nearest neighbor is nearly a mile down the gravel road!!! If I were in town playing this setup as I have it configured, I'm certain any neighbors would be hearing it! Thanks for the demo. That said, I believe I'll be enjoying my DGX for many years to come!

It is great to see how you enjoy it. Thank you for the demo.

Wonderful sounds and playing,woody!!!

My face went to smile mode when you played The Comeback Kid. Amazing video! :)

Epic Woody! Looking forward to the next videos!

When an instrument makes a musician smile, it says everything you need to know ;)

I love the fact that you remind musicians that extracting instrument sounds from a style can refine its needed simplicity when covering a desired song. It takes a trained ear, and some experimenting, but it beats spending hoards of time starting from scratch!

Stunning sounds Woody. Love it

Wonderful demo ! What an incredible instrument

Nice demo woody I have been trawling the internet for a good one, thanks for this.

All of these electronic keyboards, from the cheapest to the most expensive, in the hands of a knowledgeable and skilled player, can be made to produce remarkable musical sounds. It must be very difficult for the manufacturers to find and tweak more bells and whistles to give their offering an edge over the opposition.

just seeing the genuine joy on your face was worth tuning in .

This is the first video I’ve seen of this keyboard that doesn’t make it sound cheesy cabaret. Great video as always.

It’s so strange that for over 20 years some arrangers have been criticized for sounding a bit “too 1980’s”, but now that’s a good thing. Not complaining because the 80’s was an awesome time for music, but just worth pointing out IMO. We’re even seeing the throwback in the synth workstation keyboards too.

Belle démonstration merci ! ❤️💐

Great intro video - much appreciated - thanks for sharing

Incredible showcase! 🙏

The quality of the voices is fantastic. Your video was most entertaining. Thanks and thumbs up.

What a fabulous instrument and played very well. Excellent video.

How nice to 'hear' the piano from my first years, here and now Woody. Felt goood 😂 Astounding characters on board of this ship 💦 thanks. 🎉

Beautiful demo! Love your voicings.

This is on my must have list great video Woody.😊

New to your channel. Loved this review. As a Liverpool fan it’s great to see Klopp enjoying himself on the keyboard. 😊

Nice brass, thanks for the smile for the Indy interpretation!

Nice job Woody! Thanks!

Your smile says it all. Thanks!

Great video and audio. It sounds great on a headset.

Love the intro performance, made an Arranger sound cool which isn’t easy

I thing you are the first player that i've seen starting a style other than c cord, i like your site you are a good player also have good sense of humor not that grumpy old that doesn't like this or that like another player on youtube sounds like he purchased the wrong keyboard to me keep it up I PURCHASED MY GENOS 2 was first waching youre utube

The best reviewer award goes to Woody. I really enjoyed this video. You are the # 1 best reviewer. You should win an Oscar !!!!

Sounds delightful

Thay Yamaha Genos is Beautiful sounding and looking , Woody you do wonderful...I Love your honest direct way of speaking about the keyboard and bloopers..and all , You play very well...

Wow.. TinTin sounds more polished than ever. This would be an amazing live or party weapon. Not sure I would use it in the studio, but.. so much fun! I can tell you're having fun 😏 You're a great host, Woody. Congrats on moving up in the world! 😄🙂

Very nice, very tempted

Wow that looks fun 😀

You have convinced me to start saving up for Genos2 i already own Genos 1 👍🏻 thanks Woody always a pleasure seeing your clips 👏

You said it required a bit of manipulation when you wanted to change sounds during you play. 2 quick tricks: 1. You can activate the One Touch Setting (OTS button on the left side). Each time you will change for another style variation (A,B,C,D), the right hand instruments will also change accordingly. 2. You can prepare all your changes in advance and save them in the 10 memory banks located below the screen. That way, you are always 1 button away of a perfect live transition 👍. Great demo. Love it!

Woody, as usual, you brought the insight and comprehensive instruction to help me decide if this keyboard is right for me. Most of all, you show us that with arranger keyboards of good caliber, you don't have to be a professional to sound like one! Thanks to your videos, I gambled with the purchase of a PSR-S975 about 6 years ago, and I now do gigs and open mics in my area. I'm still untapping layers of techniques and songs that I never thought I could play with real punch and impact. That being said, in understanding how to create beats and tracks from scratch, I can produce many of the rhythms offered in the Genos series. So in my case, the Genos would be an expensive way of saving time in playing the songs I know and like. Plus, with the sophistication of good mixers and speakers, the sounds can be mimicked to an appreciable degree.I'd love to know your thoughts on my perspective, and thanks again!

Woody’s face after playing Indiana Jones says it all. What a fun looking keyboard and an excellent demo video.

Beautiful👍 Thank you 🙂

I think ill add getting this keyboard on my bucket list. I am not a fan of boards like the 670, and this one reminds me of that, but on steroids. No weighted keys . Not saying it’s a bad board but may not fit me for my tastes. It does look fun! Great review.i liked the sound at @14:58

I had a Yamaha 9000pro and gigged with it for many years. Full bands, and trios. It was built like a tank, had 76 keys (I think) and weighed a tonne to carry up stairs, but it lasted and just worked. I never felt the need for a back up board. It was so versatile and it sounded great. I spent hours at home playing to the styles for fun. As you say it's not as easy as it sounds but it turned into a great pro board on stage without using the styles. I had it fully loaded with internal hard drive, extra RAM and 2 x PLG150-AN boards. Sold it a few years ago to an ex Yamaha tech who was so happy with it even though it was a bit battered and hummed a bit when it had warmed up. To me, the Genos seems an improvement in sound quality but not the 'gaping Chasm it probably should be, considering the years between them and the build quality looks a bit err...suspect, but I can only see from the video. Great video review BTW👍🙂

I have played arranger keyboards for forty years , and you timing and reflexes.and speed of hand has to be as fast as a ninja...In order to play them I have no problems ,,I love the arranger.,to create music with more then any instrument in the world ,, and what Yamaha.and Korg Roland Casio and many more , has done I hope they keep it up , In the last ten years I am very happy with , I use arranger keyboards as a base booard and other synths or all different brands , but mostly Yamaha to create music with ,, Really Woody what it does is it gives one person total creative control over the song they want to play and also you can select and rearrange any song in a different style learning this is where the musical art begins , having the talent first to even play piano , I started playing piano when I was 14 years old ,and guitar , drums when I was 6 years old and singing ,, I am well aware of softwear synths and multi tracking , I did studio work in 1980's I have played in country bands and gospel music and church choirs and also Listen to pop rock and edm and disco ,, I was choir director and pianist almost forty years ago and also went to gay bars in Detroit Michigan in 1981.. and heard Sylvester James music ,, Patrick Cowley ,, and Trio Da da da ,, and Soft Cell sex dwarf , Johnny Rotton ,sex Pistols ,,Punk , and Tent Revival southern Gospel music ,,and ACDC and David Bowie and Pink Floyd and the Singing Cooks and Dottie Rambo , I Love the Lighting seeds Ian Brodie ,, I call them my modern Beatles,... I Love synth Pop and Blue Grass funny you should have a banjo in your room I play five string Banjo I used to play Blue Grass music ,, I played at Stella Partons ,, I know Stella and met Avie Lee Parton Dollys Mother at Stellas Hat hosue in Tennesse ,,back in 1995 ,,Stella still knows who I am and we talk in facebook ,, she asked me when she seen my newboard stand what is that a Ironing board ,, ? them X keyboard stands looks just like a Ironing board ,, I told Stella she should do a EDM remix of her music she did I Love it ,, Dolly Is not doing rock music with some of the most amazing ledgends in rock music , Dolly did a song with Galantis from sweden ,, I Love Dolly and Galantis ,,Faith ,,,I am a synth billy and I like to play my synthesizers at home writing songs about well really all kinds of stuff ,,a Hillbilly has no boundries as to what we do we are freely Ignorant of any orthodoxy to any normals well not most of us ,, I am I play anything I want to I will be 63 years old ,,I ant imbecilic I am genius ,,I am carious as to what Yamaha has done with this Magic Music Box LOL heheh that is what my silly nephew calls my synths He has the most cunning sense of humor ,, Magic Music Box ,,I laughed ,, My favorite harmony group is the kings Singers , I like when they do Beatle songs ant they amazing ,,? Your English you should know of the Kings singers ,,six men , I Love Roger Whittecar my piano teacher turned me on to him in the 1970's ,,In my youth I Loved Dan Fogelberg , and Pink Floyd and ACDC and Donna Summer aka Giorgio Moroder ,,He produced all her music ,, I Love Madleen kane ,,Giorgio Moroder produced her to ,, I Loved Queen , I did not listen to the hits I listen to Love of my Life and the more classical piano songs queen did Freddy Mercury was quite the innovator we have arrived at a place where they are so many songs and artist just every where ,,millions of sounds and subjects have been written about is there nay left? that is one reason I life Goa music and strange artist like Diamanda Galás she chews and ripps and bites and screeches he musical music out ,,she is a strange artist but brings a different unlike anyone else ,,I was playing guitar and a song i Love ,,Nights on Broadway by BeeGees who I have Loved from the first time I ever heard them Barry Gibb Lives in Nashville now ,, and has sang with Ricky scaggs ,,, Music is really changing I think the people at Yamaha is aware of this , and I am a artist musician extreme in my musical likes and loves over my life time and musical instrument like the arranger its necessary that TechKNOWLOGY takes a look in to how artist play what kind of instrument the modern musicians will compose music with a instrument ,, the arranger like the Genos 2 is something that is there to meet our evolutions and growth as people artist creations that is my feelings ,,the arrangers and synthesizers will not play them self , the song is not in them the son is in the heart and mind of the artist musician Yamaha understand this I do and we must keep AI under control to some point ai can be very vastley intelligent but its dead it is not alive ,,Humans are alive and they have souls ,, and so does gingers ,,,

Sounds great :)

Such a lovely board. Got mine on Thursday afternoon, and it practically havn't been turned off since ... I'm so sleep deprived now 😂

I have the sx900. It’s enough for me but I’m a bit of a synth geek and own various other hardware synths and sound modules plus umpteen vst’s. Like you woody, my fave vst is….. Hive 2!

I would have been here for the premiere, but I had a call to make. Looks like a lot of fun to play.

nice startup visuals

I’m gonna be ordering one of these I think

When the last track started I was sure it was going to be Top Gun Maverick. I think the bells on that were done on a (Korg) Opsix though 🙂

Brilliant, Woody, just brilliant! I hope Yamaha watches your videos on the Genos 2 and decides not to call the loan in -- you deserve to keep it. Maybe they'll "loan" you a Montage M, also? 🤭 As a Genos 1 owner I've been on the fence about upgrading, and these are the type of demos that sell keyboards! I can't wait for your next instalment in the series. 👏🎉🎹

I love this

HI... thank youWoody . GOD bless you

Wow amazing.... looks like the competition is on!!!! Roland and Dan Smith & Behringer look out!!!

17:40 Ross in Friends vibes... 😂 seriously though, great review Woody, looks like some piece of kit.

Nice Demo Woody! For a performing keyboard player/one man band this instrument would be hard to beat.

Thanks for the great information! May I please inquire as to which speakers you have mounted to they keyboard? They look perfect. Thank you 🙂

As an owner of a few Yamaha keyboards (PSR S500, MM6, PSR-D1 and PSS-A50) I could be considered bit biased but do like how Yamaha do things. Yes the learning curves are steep and lots of menu diving, but once you've cracked their code you can really get some performances out of them. Hope there is the CP pianos on there too, and suppose you've played the tone-wheel organs 👌 Very enjoyable vid

Great review and playing Woody! 👏👏👏👏👏👏 As for the first style you played, if you have enjoyed your teen years in the 80s, yes it will definitely remind you "Take on me". But if you are a teenager right now it will remind you "Blighting lights" 😂 For A-ha's most famous song there is a more suitable style which is called 80sEuroFastPop at the Retropop category (it is also on Genos 1 and added with the V2.0 superior pack).

Sensacional!!!!

Great video as always - Thanks Woody Was that a Roland keyboard stand I saw it sitting on? (LOL)

The genos 2 sounds good

Its hard not to be excited like you with all that at the fingertips. I own Genos one but now the experience gets tripple orgasmic.

I know this smile - My first impression , when I opened the Window and pluged it into the PA with SubZero 12 400HP😊

Woooooow Wooody it's my favourite SONG !!!!!!!

Superb 😃😄💗💗👌👌

Great playing Woody! And the keyboard didn’t sound bad either….

Really thinking about switching over to Yamaha for my arranger keyboard. Been using the PA4x since it came out, and it seems like when they released the PA5x, the upgrades were not enough for me to make switch from the PA4 to PA5. I never understood the storage issue with the Korg PA series, they lack when it comes to storage, and Yamaha has plenty and the sounds and beats sound really rich. Thank you for the great demo!

11:11 Finally, a real guitar sound on a keyboard 🎹 Thank you 🙂

Some lovely split level playing. Not a fan of auto accompanying or the string sounds but the brass, nylon guitar & felt piano sound amazing

Excellent demo, Woody! Thank you. What is the style you used for that last song? I really liked it a lot.

I have used a Genos before and I'm looking forward to try the Genos 2. Not that I'm really interested in owning one, but the Genos 1 was quite fun to use and toy around with ... up to even hilarious once you discover that you can plug in a microphone to make your voice sound like yodeling. I'm curious what if they added any more funny microphone voice models.

Thank you for the sound. That last one so Synthwave I bet I have heard it thousands of times. Don't know its name though, cannot recall it.

Aside from the different pattern variations, can you do anything to alter them, similar to KARMA technology? On that, you could do things like adjusting the pattern complexity, note repetition, gate, bending, etc. I’m also curious about how it works to create your own styles; is that possible?

Stunning keyboard..so good that it might be perceived as a karoeke track machine... personally I don't like the boat shape profile from the front ..prefer straight lines....

Splendid demo. I was thinking Roland fantom 8 but I think this is more versatile as in the set intro outro styles etc don't think the Roland has any backing at all ? Does the keyboard limit you as it is not 88 or weighted which is a n attraction on the roland

Interesting how many Genos2 videos have been popping up lately. Well it doesn't sound bad at all, although, in my personal opinion, I find those Arranger Keyboards to be over the top overpriced. I am a bit impressed by what those keyboards can do today compared to back in the 90s. And it is a bit fascinating, and although I think it could probably be nice to have an arranger, I struggle to find any real use of them in my gig. I am mainly a vocalist and I use synths/sequencer as backing during my performances. I could imagine it be a great keyboard in the songwriter workshop where it's used to quickly sketch out quick ideas for new songs and produce quick demos to present to the band. I checked the online shops here in Norway, and it cost a whopping 60 000 NOK .. and for that much money you could get a MODX6+, a Nautilus 6 and MCP Key 61! and with those 3 synths/WS you could do almost everything and probably even better than the Genos2. More sounds, more sequencing/sampling/looping and definingly more tweaking of your sounds. I mean Genos2 brag about having FM engine, well, I suppose it is presets, while in MODX+ you get 128 notes polyphonic, fully editable, 8 operator engine. It also have over 10 000+ arpeggios that you could put on all parts. emulating the styles. With Akai MPC 61 you could also use to create "styles" more like you could sample the parts of the songs and loop whatever parts you needed to loop using the 128 pads (16 pads x 8 of banks) Yes it would take more time to do this manually, but that is where the fun is? no? For me its not fun going on stage just reproduc... eh .."playing" something Yamaha made. For me I want everything to be handmade by myself. Down to a single note. And I can pat myself on the back "I did this.. I created it all" )) Do I see myself ever buying Genos2? No way. Its too expensive. I might maybe get a SX900 down the line, but not now. Probably will be the next SX900 replacement. I could use it as a brainstorming songwriting instrument. Would I use it live? nope. I also think those keyboards are mostly used "live" by those who play "taffelmusic" at weddings or other parties where they sit and play during dinner but most people do not really pay attention to what is played, just that something is played instead of a CD player. Ps. I think the style you played at the beginning is more "The Boys of Summer" by Don Henley than take on me.

Thanks for playing songs almost nobody plays on the G2!! I also hope to see your video of the speakers you use. I'm curious if a more expensive speaker is needed for good sound quality of if the standard speakers are enough. I wil only play it in my living room.

nice monitors

It is a pity that it is so expensive because this is a great jamming tool for the hobbyist also.

Hello Woody. Great demo ! 👍Thank you. Do you plan to demo the Montage M ? Do yo know if Genos 2 and Montage M share the same sound banks ? Thanks.

I would love to see/hear you extend that rendition of Crocket's theme that you did at around 14:25. That was beautiful!

Concert Tutti. In Italian, “tutti” refers to everyone, so that means that everyone in a concert ensemble plays at the same time. For example, you hit one single C note, you’ll hear horns, timpani, brass, cymbals…. Basically everything you’d hear in a full orchestral concert.

Their team must have a blast making all these styles. I wonder how many people worked on them?

Oh, one more thing? How are the speakers of the Genos 2? I found the Genos 1 ones sounded pretty good, are they perhaps even the same on the Genos 2?

👍 Nice demo. One question. Is there that much reverb on all the patches by default? (Yes I know the level can be changed)

Salut Woody - merci for this well done video. But I have a question: How good for playing are the KEYs of this Genos machine ? Many people says that any keyboards KEYs are so worst for playing. E.gl in contrast of a piano key.

Very good demo and presentation. I'm quite old skool when it comes to making music. I'm not sure having a machine like this would do me any favours. I would feel like i'm cheating. There's something about building your own backing track and drums instead of it being there by the press of a button. Nice sounding board though.

My 80s Soul has awakened. Hopeful, Melancholic but Lovely thing. .

I thought it sounded more like a backing for Don Henley Boys of Summer....gr8 machine and playing btw...🎶👌

hi woody your camera angle has cut your head off is great to see you with the fantastic genos 2 i got mine last friday

Great demo!! The first demo song you played, who's the artist and track name?

No saben la suerte que tienen de poder tener esos teclados me gusta estos vídeos para al menos ver cómo son

Great demo and performance as always Woody! Well, I wouldn't use the orchestral sounds in Genos 2 in my cinematic or trailer projects as they still sound artificial. These keyboards use modeling technology to mimic the sounds of live instruments but still can't defeat the recorded samples in VSTs of course. I really don't know why arranger keyboard vendors even offer an orchestral genre sounds in a keyboard as in my opinion nobody is gonna perform orchestral music live as a one man band and these keyboards mostly used in weddings or live gigs at 5-star hotels. If we talk business, even if you record an orchestral piece in your studio, you can't pitch it to Hollywood clients because their ears are like radar that pick the tiniest artificial sound. Other than that, it's an amazing keyboard indeed for the orchestral (non-business) hobbyist.

Woww!!