I have ordered one!!!!

[musicman100]

Gulp I have ordered a genos 2 tonight. Hopefully delivery by the end of this week!! A bit nervous if I have made the right choice!!! Also ordered the Hs8 to go with it. That's a lot of money spent but should last me a few years. Will let you know when I get it!!

[Christophermoment]

Gulp I have ordered a genos 2 tonight. Hopefully delivery by the end of this week!! A bit nervous if I have made the right choice!!! Also ordered the Hs8 to go with it. That's a lot of money spent but should last me a few years. Will let you know when I get it!!

Good for you and congratulations.

[pjd]

You're on solid ground. Good luck and have fun!

— pj

[GrannyRocks]

If you don't try it, you'll never know, and that would probably bother you. Worse comes to worse, I hope you can return it. We can do that here in the States. When I don't try something, it never lets me in peace. Hope it works out and brings you joy.

[musicman100]

You're on solid ground. Good luck and have fun!

— pj

Thank you. By the way love your web site. I enjoy seeing what makes a keyboard work inside. It must, be from my days of opening up calculators and hoovers when I was as child.

Just a quick question is the a difference between awm and awm2. I assume that awm2 imeans you can edit it like on the modx etc and awm is non editable (well to base level).

People on some sites are complaining about the added FM engine. They clearly have no idea how FM works. Of course the sound will be better then awm because the sound can evolve as the sine wave( and other waves) go through the I think 8 operators. And why you would to edit FM I have tied on the old dx machines and after several days have up and just used the presets!!


It looks like to me the genos two has the same circuits as the new montage m but with bits disabled. It would make sense to do that for cost reason. Also I imagine there share a lot of the same waveforms I imagine again for the cost reason. What do you think?

[pjd]

Hi --

Thanks for reading the site and thanks for the compliments!

The very first version of Advanced Wave Memory was abbreviated "AWM". (Doh!) Yamaha added significant capabilities to AWM and "AWM2" was born. AWM2 has continued to evolve, but not enough to bump the version number.

I asked some Yamaha marketing folks about current use of "AWM" vs. "AWM2". The answer is something like "We just got too lazy to put the '2' in every reference to AWM2." It's all the same underlying hardware. The last big advance at the hardware level was the Standard Wave Processor 70 (SWP70) tone generator (roughly 2015).

Montage M and Genos2 likely share the same tone generator hardware (SWP70), but everything else is quite different. The synth and arranger products have very different front panels, displays and digital audio handling -- and the internal platforms reflect those differences. For sure, the new GEX keybed in Montage M8x has different key sensing circuits than any other synth or arranger product.

Montage M and Genos2 have a lot of the same sonic DNA at the waveform level (AKA samples) and digital effects. The instruments are voiced quite differently in line with their intended purposes. Genos2 is ahead of Montage M in certain ways and the converse is true, too (e.g., Montage M has AN-X). Yamaha (and other manufacturers) need to share base technology in order to keep costs low.

Hey, hey, enjoy your new instrument -- pj

[tyrosman]

you are in for some great stuff brilliant styles and sound as well Enjoy