Main Functions - Yamaha genos Owner's Manual

This section briefly explains the main functions of Genos, to help you better understand the overall capabilities
of the instrument.
Styles
—Rhythm and Auto Accompaniment—
Genos features a variety of accompaniment and rhythmic backing patterns (called "Styles") in a variety of different musi-
cal genres including pop, jazz, and many others. Styles feature sophisticated Auto Accompaniment patterns, letting you
produce automatic accompaniment playback simply by playing chords with your left hand. This lets you automatically
recreate the sound of a full band or orchestra—even if you're playing by yourself.
Voices
—The individual sounds of Genos—
Genos features a wide variety of exceptionally realistic instrumental Voices, including piano, guitar, strings, brass, wind
instruments and more. The Voices can be played manually on the keyboard, and they are also used by the Styles, MIDI
Songs, and Multi Pads.
Keyboard Parts
There are four keyboard parts for your manual performance: LEFT, RIGHT 1, 2 and 3. Each part has one Voice. You can combine
these parts by using the PART ON/OFF buttons to create luscious instrument textures and convenient performance combinations.
You can change the keyboard range of the Parts by changing the Split Point.
LEFT part
Multi Pads
—Adding musical phrases to your performance—
The Multi Pads can be used to play a number of short pre-recorded rhythmic and melodic sequences that can be used to
add impact and variety to your keyboard performances. Multi Pads are grouped in Banks of four phrases each. Genos fea-
tures a variety of Multi Pad Banks in a variety of different musical genres. Moreover, the Audio Link Multi Pad function
allows you to create unique, new pad content with your own audio (WAV) data for playing back during your perfor-
mance.
Songs
—Playing back MIDI/audio files—
For Genos, the term "Song" refers to MIDI or audio data, such as preset songs, commercially available files, etc. Not
only can you play back a Song and listen to it, but you can also play the keyboard along with Song playback.
Song playback features two modes: Dual Player mode and Song List mode.
• Dual Player: Plays back two Audio Songs (or one Audio Song and one MIDI Song) simultaneously and makes a
smooth transition between the two.
• Song List: Plays back Songs continuously according to a previously created Song List.
Mic Effects
—Adding harmony vocals and synth vocoder effects to your singing—
By connecting a microphone to the MIC [INPUT] jack (either XLR or standard 1/4" phone plug connectors), you can
enjoy singing along with your keyboard performance or with Song playback. The instrument outputs your vocals through
the connected speaker system.
Moreover, you can automatically apply various Vocal Harmony effects to your voice as you sing, or you can use the
Synth Vocoder feature to graft the unique characteristics of your voice onto synthesizer and other sounds.
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Genos Owner's Manual

Main Functions

Left-hand (LOWER) section Right-hand (UPPER) section
Split Point (F#2 by default)
RIGHT 3 part
RIGHT 2 part
RIGHT 1 part