Well, your right hand is playing the upper keyboard. Here is another jaw dropping rendition of Star Wars on the Yamaha ELS-02C by 826aska. Here are a couple of inspiring performances by aki-Electone on this fine instrument.

You can control the pitch by holding down a key and moving it laterally side to side.Īlex Payler demos this feature as he plays the James Bond Theme on the ELS-02C at the 1min 21sec mark. This is explained on Page-43 of the Owner’s Manual. This is a feature found on Yamaha’s Electone STAGEA ELS-02C. How about adding the ability to control pitch via Horizontal Touch? You can create Arpeggios with up to 8 simultaneous parts. How about including all the Arpeggios from the Yamaha MONTAGE? What would be your thoughts in adding new capabilities in a future release of the Genos line? This feature rich and incredibly capable instrument will continue to inspire their owners for years to come. Yamaha has stood behind their customers with the latest Genos OS 2.0 update. Yes, I agree the Yamaha Genos is a trailblazer in the world of arrangers. Thank you everyone for your valuable input. 256 voices, 28 insert effects, it’s a generation ahead of Korg’s 128 voices and 4 inserts.Īs long as Yamaha keep churning out new Style Packs and sound expansions and work on a few tweaks to the OS and make sure they can’t be pirated, I doubt anyone will stop buying the current hardware. But I am hard pressed to think of a hardware one it needs. There are definitely OS improvements that the Genos could benefit from. That certainly seems to be the trend at Korg. The Genos/SX900 models are a true generational change, and may represent a more five year+ path for R&D between models.

The days of Yamaha churning out a new model little different from the last every three years is likely over. This might present an opportunity for arranger manufacturers to focus on OS updates as a selling point, and to work on secure content delivery, as in new style packs and sounds that can’t be traded around to bring in revenue while new hardware is developed. I think, as general arranger sales decline, and Covid decimates the employment opportunities for musicians that can afford a high ticket keyboard like the Genos or PA4X etc., we are going to see a wholesale change to the pace of new development.

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