Several years ago, Yamaha released its flagship Genos digital arranger workstation. It was revolutionary, and a large number of songwriters, composers, and keyboard players embraced it. With more amazing updated sounds, accompaniment styles, and effects; new and inventive features; and a slew of technical advancements, the second-generation Genos2 now takes the mantle and becomes the 800-pound gorilla of performance arranger workstations. The Yamaha Genos2 is a beast even though its real weight is a gig-friendly 31 pounds. With its unmatched sample quality, innovative styles, and professional-grade connection, Genos2 is the pinnacle of keyboards for performance and composing. Extensive built-in MIDI and audio recording capabilities combined with smooth DAW integration make the Yamaha Genos2 the only keyboard you’ll need to ace a big gig.
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