Keyboard Yamaha Genos 2 76 key Arranger Workstation

Yamaha Genos 2 76 key Arranger WorkstationThe Ultimate Performance Arranger WorkstationWhen Yamaha's flagship Genos digital arranger workstation hit the market several years ago, it was a game changer, and legions of keyboardists, composers, and songwriters jumped onboard. Now, the second-generation Genos2 assumes the mantle with more great updated sounds, accompaniment styles, and effects; fresh, innovative features; and a host of technical improvements that make it the new 800-pound gorilla of performance arranger workstations. And while its actual weight is a gig-friendly 31 pounds, the Yamaha Genos2 is nevertheless a beast. Boasting unparalleled sample quality, cutting-edge styles, and pro-level connectivity, Genos2 defines the state of the art in songwriting and performance keyboards. Topped off by extensive onboard MIDI and audio recording facilities and seamless DAW integration, the Yamaha Genos2 is the only keyboard you need to ace an important gig.


Indulge your passion for making music
If your passion is composing original music, arranging professionally produced tracks, or simply playing your favorite songs, Genos2 is your go-to instrument. It gives solo musicians on a quest for perfection the highest-quality sound and style content, along with unprecedented real-time, hands-on performance control. With 800 Accompaniment Styles on tap, you have your pick of the best musicians for your backing band in any genre, making it easy to individualize your music while exercising control over chord changes and arrangements. This functionality is made all the easier with Chord Looper, which lets you record chord progressions for the Style engine to loop, freeing you to experiment with two hands or to solo without having to comp the changes. Yamaha’s Voice & Style Expansion Packs let you further customize your Genos2 with an abundance of additional content from around the world.
Expedite your creative process
Genos2 puts you in complete control over composition and performance. With its large, crisp 9-inch LCD color touchscreen, assignable knobs and faders with their own LED parameter status sub-displays for real-time feedback, and a silky 76-note, aftertouch-enabled FSX keybed, you’ll instantly find and tweak the perfect sounds and whip up an authentic-sounding arrangement in any musical genre. As you layer your compositions, Genos2 will astound you with its ability to handle massive, lavish arrangements with poise and panache. Simply put, Genos2 expedites the creative process, which can be painfully cumbersome on other arrangers that are not as meticulously designed. To your delight, you’ll find the well-thought-out design extends to every aspect of music creation. And then there are the sounds — which are totally amazing.


As Yamaha’s flagship arranger workstation keyboard, Genos2 is packed with the company’s latest analog, digital, and hardware technology and will serve as the platform for future Yamaha keyboards. Though the original Genos broke considerable ground upon its introduction, technology marches on. Indeed, digital keyboard design has advanced dramatically in the ensuing years. In that interim, Yamaha engineers have been diligently at work designing its successor, incorporating the latest tech as well as user feedback and select feature requests into Genos2. Improvements from the original Genos include:

Upgrade 384-note Max Polyphony
Upgrade 1,990 Voices + 75 Drum/SFX Kits
Upgrade 800 Accompaniment Styles
New FM Tone Generator
New Steinberg REVelation Reverb
New Style Dynamics Control
New Built-in HDMI Out
New Rec’n’ Share App compatibility
New Bluetooth connectivity
 
When it’s time to lay down a vocal, plug your condenser mic into the XLR jack, switch on 48V phantom power, and you’re ready to roll with a studio-grade signal chain the quality of which is unprecedented in a keyboard. Yamaha’s VH2 vocal harmony engine is onboard to adorn your vocal performances by adding up to three virtual background singers, complete with pitch correction, synth vocoder, and other effects for a polished, professional sound. If you played two notes, however, you'd suddenly have eight players — which could be cool, but perhaps not entirely realistic. In Genos2, Ensemble Voices always give you the same number of players because Yamaha instilled this instrument with the musical knowledge of a professional human music arranger. Play two notes with a Brass Quartet Ensemble Voice, and Genos will intelligently send the trumpets to the top notes and the trombones to the lower notes.
Features:

Silky, organ-weighted FSX keybed with aftertouch
9-inch TFT VGA LCD touchscreen display
Assignable knobs and faders with individual OLED parameter status sub displays
384-note polyphony handles large orchestrations without note stealing
1,990 Voices and 75 Drum/SFX Kits
800 Accompaniment Styles provide an instant backing band in any genre
Style Creator lets you quickly create and customize Styles for instant recall
Voice & Style Expansion Packs let you customize your Genos2 with additional content
Yamaha's premium CFX and C7 concert grand pianos
Revo! Drums leverage multi-dynamic sample layers and round-robin wave cycling for ultra-realism
Ambient Drums are sampled with both close mic and room mic audio for pro studio-quality sound
Non-keyboard instruments are superbly rendered by Yamaha's acclaimed Super Articulation 2 sound engine
Chord Looper lets you record chord progressions, freeing you to play with both hands
Enhanced DSP delivers a broad range studio-grade effects, including classic rack and pedal units
Automatically apply Vocal Harmony effects; use Synth Vocoder to shape synthesizer sounds
Ensemble Voices map instruments to their appropriate ranges for authentic-sounding ensemble performances
Registration Memories provide an efficient way to save and recall panel settings
Onboard 16-track MIDI recorder
Mic input on XLR combo jack with available +48V phantom power
VH2 vocal harmony engine with synth vocoder adds up to 3 virtual background singers
USB-to-Host port for connection to computer or mobile device
3 USB-to-Device ports for recording to/playback from flash drives
15GB internal user drive
Wireless LAN capabilities
1/4-inch headphone jack
Onboard metronome
3 function-assignable footpedal jacks
Included music rest and IEC AC power cable
 
Specifications
76 Keys (FSX) with velocity sensitivity and aftertouch
1990 Sounds + 75 Drum/SFX Kits - including 106 S.Articulation 2, 437 S.Articulation, 141 FM, 123 Mega Voices, 24 Organ Flutes, 11 Ambient Drums/SFX, 11 Revo Drums/SFX, 95 Ensemble Voices
800 Styles (including 720 Pro, 69 Session, 11 Free Play) with 4 variations each and 4 One Touch Settings (OTS)
384-Voice polyphony: 128 for AWM + 128 for Expansion AWM + 128 for FM Voices
Keyboard parts Right1, Right2, Right3, Left
Registration Memory - 10 slots per bank
Low-reflection 9" LC touchscreen
Sub display above the faders and knobs
6 Assignable knobs with LED status display
9 Assignable faders with LED status display
Cross Fader
9 Assignable buttons: A-F, 1-3
3 Articulation Buttons
Midi sequencer: playback (SMF format 0 and 1, XF), recording (SMF format 0)
Audio: Playback (WAV + MP3, mit Time Stretch, Pitch Shift und Vocal Cancel), Recording: WAV (44,1 kHz, 16 Bit, stereo)
Effects: Reverb (85 presets, incl. Steinberg REVelation Reverb), Chorus (107 presets), DSP (363 presets incl. VCM), Master Compressor (5 presets), Master EQ (9 presets), 28 Part EQs, Vocal Harmony (54 presets) Synth Vocoder (20 presets)
Multi Pads - 504 banks with 4 pads each
Chord Looper
Playlist function - max. 2500 entries per playlist
USB audio interface - 44.1 kHz, 32 Bit, stereo
Sample memory for voice expansion (approx. 3 GB)
Internal memory with approx. 15 GB for style/audio style expansion, among other things
Bluetooth 5.0, codec: SBC, range approx. 10 m
W-LAN: 2.4 GHz
Dimensions (W x D x H): 1234 x 456 x 151 mm
Weight: 14.2 kg
Incl. power cable, sheet music holder, 2 adapters for sheet music holder

Connections:
Main Out: 2x 6.3 mm jack, L/L+R, R
Sub Out 1+2: 2x 6.3 mm jack
Sub Out 3+4: 2x 6.3 mm jack
Headphone output: 6.3 mm stereo jack
Microphone input: XLR/jack combo socket, incl. switchable +48 V phantom power
MIDI A In/Out
MIDI B In/Out
Aux In (L/L+R, R)
HDMI Out (1280 x 720p max.)
3 Assignable foot pedal connections
USB to device (up to 256 GB)
USB to host
Connection for GNS-MS01 speaker system