Yamaha Genos 2

The Yamaha Genos2 is a professional 76-key arranger workstation designed for keyboardists who demand the highest standards in sound quality, playing comfort, and musical capabilities. As the flagship of Yamaha’s arranger keyboards, the Genos2 combines high-quality AWM and FM sound generation with realistic instrument sounds, extensive automatic accompaniments, and direct control over your arrangements. With 1,991 voices, 75 drum/SFX kits, 800 styles, and up to 384-note polyphony, the Genos2 is suitable for both live performances and studio productions. Thanks to firmware version 2.0, the instrument also features advanced functions such as a Multiband Compressor, USB Audio Multi-Track Output, Smart Chord, and enhanced capabilities for Style Creator and Chord Looper. In addition, the free Timeless Keys Expansion Pack is available, featuring four Premium Piano Voices and 50 additional accompaniment styles.

Yamaha Genos2 Version 2.0 – More Options for Music Production and Live Performances
With firmware version2.0, Yamaha has further expanded the capabilities of the Genos2. This update was developed based on feedback from Genos2 users and focuses on greater control over the sound, a more efficient workflow, and additional creative possibilities. Editing instrument sounds, developing custom accompaniment styles, and recording music have all been further improved. With version 2.0, the Genos2 features a Multiband Compressor for precise sound editing, USB Audio Multi-Track Output for recording audio tracks separately, and Smart Chord for easily controlling complete chord accompaniments. Style Creator, Chord Looper, and Voice Edit have also been expanded. In addition, installing Expansion Content via Yamaha EXPANSION EXPLORER is faster thanks to improved data transfer over USB.

Timeless Keys Expansion Pack – New Pianos and Accompaniment Styles
With the Timeless Keys Expansion Pack, you can expand the Genos2’s sound library with four Premium Piano Voices: Nashville C3 Grand, Hamburg Grand, 73Rd Electric Piano, and Wr Electric Piano. Each voice features five variations, allowing you to use different tonal characters for a wide range of musical styles and arrangements. The Nashville C3 Grand and Hamburg Grand offer two distinct acoustic piano characters, while the 73Rd Electric Piano and Wr Electric Piano focus on the characteristic sound of electric pianos. This makes the package an interesting addition for pianists and keyboardists who enjoy playing both acoustic and classic electronic keyboard instruments. In addition to these sounds, Timeless Keys includes 50 additional Styles from various music genres. The accompaniment styles feature matching One Touch Settings, allowing you to instantly recall suitable instrument settings. The package also includes a Playlist, giving you quick access to the corresponding musical settings. The Timeless Keys Expansion Pack is available for free as an Exclusive Download via Yamaha Music Connect. To access it, register your Genos2 with Yamaha, after which you can download and install the pack separately.

Multiband Compressor – More Control Over the Overall Mix
Thanks to firmware version 2.0, the Genos2 features a Multiband Compressor. This allows you to adjust the dynamics of different frequency ranges independently. Unlike the original Master Compressor, which treated the entire audio signal as a single unit, the Multiband Compressor offers independent control over the low, mid, and high frequencies. This allows you, for example, to make the low end of a rhythm section more solid, better balance the midrange, and process the high frequencies in a controlled manner. This extra control is particularly valuable for complex accompaniment styles with many simultaneous instrumental parts. The Multiband Compressor is also useful during live performances, where the balance between drums, bass, accompaniment, and melody instruments is crucial for a clear and controlled overall sound. This allows you to fine-tune the Genos2’s sound more precisely to your music and the connected sound system.

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USB Audio Multi-Track Output – Extensive Recording Capabilities
A key feature of Genos2 Version 2.0 is USB Audio Multi-Track Output. This allows you to send multiple audio tracks separately via USB to a connected computer running DAW software. At a sample rate of 44.1 kHz, the Genos2 supports up to 16 stereo tracks, or 32 audio channels. For recordings at a higher sample rate, the instrument supports up to 4 stereo tracks—or 8 audio channels—at 192 kHz. This allows you to record different components of Styles, Songs, and Keyboard Parts independently of one another. For example, you can record the drum part, bass line, accompaniment instruments, and played keyboard parts as separate audio tracks in your DAW. This gives you significantly more freedom during mixing and production. Instead of a single complete stereo recording, you can edit individual instrument parts later, apply effects, and adjust their volume separately. This makes the Genos2 a comprehensive production environment for keyboardists who want to further develop their arrangements in a home studio or professional recording studio.

Style Creator – Create Your Own Accompaniment Styles
With Style Creator, you can customize existing accompaniment styles or develop your own styles from scratch. The updated Style Creator in firmware version 2.0 offers various features that make creating and editing accompaniments more intuitive. Thanks to Undo and Redo, you can easily undo or redo changes. This allows you to experiment with rhythmic patterns, accompaniment parts, and arrangements without immediately losing your previous settings. The Preview function lets you play chords and immediately evaluate the result of your Style without leaving Style Creator. In addition, a new Mixer shortcut provides quick access to the mix settings, allowing you to adjust the balance between instrument parts while developing your accompaniment. These improvements are especially useful for keyboardists who regularly program their own Styles or adapt existing accompaniments to their repertoire.

Chord Looper – Record and Program Chord Progressions
The Genos2’s Chord Looper lets you record chord progressions and have them repeat automatically. This allows you to use both hands while playing for melodies, solos, and other keyboard parts, while the automatic accompaniment follows the saved chord progression. In addition to real-time chord recording, the Chord Looper features Step Edit thanks to firmware version 2.0. This allows you to program a chord progression step by step by selecting specific positions within a measure and entering the desired chords there. This method is useful when you want to prepare an arrangement with precision or adjust a chord progression without having to play it all over again. You can try out different chord changes and build progressions for verses, choruses, and instrumental passages, for example.

Smart Chord – Complete Accompaniments with Simple Chord Grips
The Smart Chord feature allows you to control extensive chord accompaniments by playing individual keys. The Genos2 generates appropriate chords based on the selected key and music genre. This allows you to use complete harmonic accompaniments without having to play all the chord fingerings yourself. This makes the automatic accompaniment features more accessible to beginner players, while experienced keyboardists can use Smart Chord to develop musical ideas more quickly. Smart Chord offers a practical addition to the Genos2’s existing chord recognition capabilities, especially when practicing, composing, and experimenting with different musical styles.

Voice Edit – Customize instrument sounds to your liking
With Voice Edit, you can further tailor the Genos2’s instrument sounds to your personal preferences. The redesigned user interface in version 2.0 makes editing Voices clearer and more accessible. The extensive editing options give you control over various sound parameters. This allows you to adapt existing instrument sounds for specific musical styles, your own arrangements, or personal playing preferences. The redesigned controls are particularly appealing to keyboardists who enjoy experimenting with sound editing and developing their own Voices.

Faster Installation of Expansion Content
The Genos2 supports Yamaha EXPANSION EXPLORER for managing and installing additional sounds and accompaniment styles. Thanks to improvements in firmware version 2.0, the transfer of Expansion Content via USB is significantly faster. As a result, installing additional content takes less time. This is convenient when you regularly add new Voices and Styles or manage different Expansion Packs.

76-key FSX keyboard with aftertouch
The Yamaha Genos2 features a 76-key FSX keyboard with touch sensitivity and aftertouch. This allows the instrument to respond accurately to the dynamics of your playing and enables you to add extra expression to suitable sounds while holding down keys. The keyboard is designed for keyboardists who play piano parts as well as organ, synthesizer, and other instrument sounds. Thanks to its extensive playing capabilities and direct controls, you can combine different instrument parts and adjust them during a performance. The large 9-inch LCD touchscreen features an anti-glare finish and adjustable brightness. The angled display ensures that you can easily read the most important settings from your playing position. In addition, the Genos2 features assignable knobs and faders with LED indicators. The separate display above the controls shows information about the assigned parameters. This helps you keep track of the settings, even when operating multiple functions simultaneously during a performance.

AWM and FM Sound Generation—Acoustic and Electronic Instruments
The Genos2 combines Yamaha’s AWM Stereo Sampling technology with FM sound generation. Together, these two sound engines provide an extensive collection of acoustic and electronic instrument sounds. AWM focuses, among other things, on the realistic reproduction of acoustic instruments, such as grand pianos, strings, wind instruments, guitars, and drums. Yamaha’s Super Articulation and Super Articulation 2 technologies reproduce the characteristic playing techniques and articulations of compatible instruments. Think, for example, of natural transitions between notes, specific attack sounds, and expressive details that contribute to an instrument’s character. The FM engine also offers the distinctive electronic sounds familiar from Yamaha’s synthesizers, including the legendary DX7. This gives you access to electric pianos, digital synthesizer sounds, and other sounds based on frequency modulation. With 1,991 voices, 75 drum/SFX kits, and 480 XG voices, the Genos2 features an extensive sound library for various music genres. The maximum polyphony of 384 notes is distributed across the Preset AWM, Expansion AWM, and FM sound generation, with up to 128 notes per part.

CFX and C7 grand piano sounds with Steinberg REVelation Reverb
The acoustic piano sounds are among the Genos2’s most important instrument groups. Yamaha has captured the tonal characteristics of the CFX and C7 grand pianos, among others, giving you a variety of piano sounds at your disposal for solo performances, ballads, pop music, and elaborate arrangements. The Genos2 also features Steinberg REVelation Reverb. This reverb effect allows you to add a sense of space to instrument sounds, for example, to create a natural-sounding piano part or a broader orchestral accompaniment. In addition to REVelation Reverb, the instrument offers extensive DSP effects, including modulation effects, equalizers, and various forms of dynamic sound processing. With the Multiband Compressor in firmware version 2.0, control over the overall mix has been further expanded.

800 Styles for Automatic Accompaniment
The Yamaha Genos2 comes standard with 800 accompaniment styles, divided into 720 Pro Styles, 69 Session Styles, and 11 Free Play Styles. These Styles are suitable for a wide range of musical genres, from pop, rock, jazz, and country to orchestral music, dance, and traditional accompaniment styles. A Style consists of various instrumental parts that automatically respond to the chords you play. This allows you to control a complete musical accompaniment with a single instrument, including drums, bass, and additional instruments. The accompaniment styles feature various intros, variations, fills, breaks, and endings. This allows you to adjust the structure of a song while playing and create smooth transitions between, for example, verses, choruses, and instrumental passages. With One Touch Setting, you can instantly call up four matching presets for each Style. This means you don’t have to select all the instrument sounds and settings separately for every song. Combined with the comprehensive Style Creator, Chord Looper, and Smart Chord, the Genos2 offers a high degree of control over how you create and use automatic accompaniments.

Style Dynamics Control – Direct Control Over the Intensity
With StyleDynamics Control, you can adjust the dynamics and intensity of an accompaniment style while playing. This allows you, for example, to create a quiet accompaniment for a verse and then add more energy when the chorus begins. Instead of simply changing the overall volume, Style Dynamics Control affects the dynamic expression of the Style. This allows you to create musical variations between different sections of a song. This feature is particularly useful for live performers who want their arrangements to evolve naturally with the music during a performance.

Ambient Drums – Control the Spatial Character of Your Drums
With Ambient Drums, the Genos2 offers extensive control over the sound of the drum parts. You can adjust the spatial character of the drums, ranging from a direct and dry studio sound to a sound with more ambience. The drum sounds utilize multiple dynamic sample layers and round-robin technology. This allows successive drum hits to sound more natural and creates greater variation in the sound. Ambient Drums is particularly useful when you want to tailor different accompaniment styles to a specific music genre. For example, you can use a compact drum sound for a quiet ballad or, conversely, a more spacious drum sound for a full-scale pop or rock production.

Vocals, Vocal Harmony, and Microphone Input
The Genos2 features a microphone input with an XLR combo jack and switchable +48V phantom power. This allows you to connect a suitable dynamic or condenser microphone for vocals during performances and recordings. The built-in VH2 Vocal Harmony technology allows you to add harmonies to your vocals. You can use up to three virtual backing vocals, enabling you to create polyphonic vocal parts with a single microphone. In addition, the instrument features pitch correction, a Synth Vocoder, and various vocal effects. With the built-in microphone processing—including a noise gate, compressor, and 3-band EQ—you can further adjust the incoming microphone signal. For solo entertainers and singer-keyboardists, the Genos2 thus offers the ability to control instrumental accompaniment and vocal processing from a single instrument.

Recording, Arranging, and Producing with t
In addition to live performances, the Genos2 is suitable for creating and recording music. The instrument features a 16-track sequencer that allows you to record and edit individual MIDI parts. It also includes an audio recorder that lets you record played music directly. For further editing on a computer, you can connect the Genos2 via USB to compatible DAW software. With USB Audio Multi-Track Output version 2.0, you can send different instrument parts separately as audio to your DAW. This makes it possible to further edit, mix, and process the arrangements you create on the Genos2 using external software effects. The combination of automatic accompaniment styles, MIDI recording, audio recording, and multitrack audio makes the Genos2 appealing to both composers and live performers who create their own accompaniments and productions.

Extensive Connectivity and Controls
The Yamaha Genos2 offers various connection options for external equipment. You can connect the instrument to a mixing console, PA system, or other suitable audio equipment via the stereo outputs. There is also a headphone jack for individual practice and work. The USB TO HOST port allows you to connect to a computer. The three USB TO DEVICE ports enable you to connect compatible USB storage devices and supported accessories. The Genos2 also features traditional MIDI ports for communication with external MIDI devices. Via HDMI, you can display information from the instrument on an external monitor, for example, to show song lyrics or other supported display information. With Bluetooth Audio, you can wirelessly play music from a compatible device through the Genos2. This is useful when you want to play along with existing songs or use backing tracks while practicing. In addition, the instrument supports wireless network functionality and features three connections for foot pedals. This allows you to control various functions without taking your hands off the keyboard.

Registration Memory and Personal Settings The Genos2 offers extensive capabilities for saving and recalling personal settings. For example, using the registration memory, you can save combinations of instrument sounds, accompaniment styles, effects, and other panel settings. You can also save supported MIDI settings for external devices. This allows you to control various components of your setup directly from the Genos2. This is particularly practical for live performers, as you can quickly recall the correct settings when switching songs. Combined with the Playlist function, you can organize your repertoire clearly and prepare for performances.

Installing Genos2 Version 2.0 and Timeless Keys
The features of Genos2 Version 2.0 are available after installing firmware version 2.0. This firmware update is available free of charge to Yamaha Genos2 users and can also be installed on existing instruments. Depending on the production batch and the firmware already installed, you may need to update the instrument first. The Timeless Keys Expansion Pack is also available for free but is offered separately via Yamaha Music Connect. Registration of the Genos2 is required for this. After downloading and installing, you’ll have access to four additional Premium Piano Voices, each with five variations, 50 extra Styles with One Touch Settings, and a corresponding Playlist.

Yamaha Genos2 features:

• professional arranger workstation with 76 keys
• FSX keyboard with touch sensitivity and aftertouch
• inch LCD touchscreen with anti-glare finish
• Adjustable brightness and tilted display
• Separate display for Live Control parameters
• 6 assignable knobs with LED indicators
• 9 assignable Live Control faders with LED indicators
• Crossfader for real-time control
• 3 Articulation Switches
• Assignable joystick and control buttons
• AWM Stereo Sampling and FM sound generation
• AEM technology for expressive instrument reproduction
• Maximum polyphony of 384 notes
• 1,991 preset voices
• 75 Drum/SFX kits
• 480 XG Voices
• 106 Super Articulation 2 Voices
• 437 Super Articulation Voices
• 141 FM Voices
• 40 Sweet! Voices
• 81 Cool! Voices
• 188 Live! Voices
• 25 OrganFlutes Voices
• 123 MegaVoices
• 11 Ambient Drums/SFX Kits
• 11 Revo Drums/SFX Kits
• 95 Ensemble Voices
• Yamaha CFX and C7 grand piano sounds
• Steinberg REVelation Reverb
• Extensive DSP effects with VCM technology
• Multiband Compressor with separate control of low, mid, and high frequencies via firmware version 2.0
• Revamped Voice Edit user interface via firmware version 2.0
• 800 Preset Styles
• 720 Pro Styles
• 69 Session Styles
• 11 Free Play Styles
• 4 One-Touch Settings per Style
• 3 intros, 4 main variations, 4 fills, a break, and 3 endings per style
• Style Dynamics Control for real-time adjustment of the accompaniment dynamics
• Ambient Drums with adjustable spatial character
• Drum sounds with multiple dynamic sample layers and round-robin technology
• Style Creator for developing and editing accompaniment styles
• Preview function for testing Styles without leaving Style Creator
• Chord Looper with real-time recording of chord progressions
• Chord Looper Step Edit for step-by-step programming of chord progressions via firmware version 2.0
• Smart Chord for chord accompaniment with individual keys via firmware version 2.0
• Extensive chord recognition capabilities
• Support for Style File Format (SFF) and Style File Format GE (SFF GE)
• Compatible with XG, GM, and GM2 for playing songs
• 16-track sequencer for MIDI recording
• MIDI and audio recording functions
• USB Audio Multi-Track Output via firmware version 2.0
• Up to 16 stereo tracks (32 audio channels) at 44.1 kHz via USB
• Up to 4 stereo tracks (8 audio channels) at 192 kHz via USB
• Separate audio export of Style, Song, and Keyboard parts to a DAW
• Audio recording in WAV format, 44.1 kHz, 16-bit stereo
• Maximum audio recording time of 80 minutes per Song
• Built-in metronome
• registration memory for saving and recalling instrument settings
• Support for registering external MIDI settings
• Playlist function for organizing your repertoire
• VH2 Vocal Harmony with up to 3 virtual backing vocals
• Pitch correction, Synth Vocoder, and vocal effects
• Microphone effects with noise gate, compressor, and 3-band EQ
• Microphone input with XLR combo jack
• Switchable +48V phantom power
• stereo audio outputs
• headphone jack
• USB TO HOST for computer connection
• 3 USB TO DEVICE ports
• MIDI IN and OUT ports
• HDMI output with support for up to 1280 x 720p
• Bluetooth Audio for wireless audio playback
• Wireless LAN functionality
• 3 foot pedal jacks
• Support for Yamaha EXPANSION EXPLORER
• Enhanced USB transfer for faster installation of Expansion Content via firmware version 2.0
• Ability to install additional Voices and Styles
• Free Timeless Keys Expansion Pack available via Yamaha Music Connect
• Firmware version 2.0 available free of charge to existing and new Genos2 users
• Display languages: English, German, French, Spanish, and Italian
• 4 EQ settings for external speakers, including the Yamaha HS7, HS8, STAGEPAS 600, and STAGEPAS 1K mkII
• Compatible with Yamaha Rec'n'Share
• Dimensions: 123.4 x 45.6 x 15.1 cm (W x D x H)
• Weight: 14.2 kg

Comes includes a music stand, power cord, and user manual