Does a new Clavinova mean a new Genos is headed our way?

[SciNote]

Hi Eileen
I used the  vocoder on Mr Blue Sky which i played edited and finalized.
It did a very good job. All done on the Genos.
Just a white lie . I sampled the choirs with Sample Robot and combined a male section sampled from Sampletank 4  with a Genos section and that made the hi's and lows correct for me when i played them. I wanted to get real close to the ELO version.
Sample Robot is great and works well with Genos as SF2 files.
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This is great if you have a voice like foghorn Leghorn. Also great for futuristic like Jarre music.
https://soundcloud.com/silver-machine/mrblue-sky

You can do quite a bit with the vocoders on the Genos if you want.


All the Best
John

Great freakin' Scott!  That was BEYOND awesome!  Most of it sounded like it could've just been pulled from the original ELO studio recordings with the vocals replaced with strings!  ELO has been one of my favorite bands over the years, and you nailed this one to the wall!  Great song from one of their best albums.

The vocoder sections, as well as that square wave synth near the beginning, around 1:15, were spot on.  And I love that you included the actual ending, as well.  One interesting thing I've read about that last vocoder part -- where it goes "Mister Blue Skyyyy-yyy" right at the end.  I had always thought that is what was being said for decades, but then I read that what is really being said is "Please turn me ov-er" -- As in, this was on a vinyl record when it first came out in 1977, and that was the last track on the side, so it was now time to turn the record over!  I don't know -- I've listened to the original ELO recording since then, and I could see this being the case.

This makes me want to dust off my transcription of the intro to "Standing in the Rain" and get a recording going for that!

[Oxford1035]

Whilst it may indeed be guess work as to when a new Genos may be released, as well as the points l mentioned before, by November, it will be 6 years since the Genos was released. Korg and Ketron have released new keyboards so l doubt Yamaha will want to wait much longer. l'll happily wager a new Genos at the end of November this year is more likely than not.

Kind regards,

Russ

[pjd]

launched less than two years after the Genos
6 years since the Genos was released

I don't mean to pick on anyone in particular. Everyone is free to look into their personal crystal ball.

But, geez.    I read the same sort of stuff on other forums -- trying to predict the next Montage based on timing and spot product shortages.

I've given up on this kind of "navel gazing." The only reliable information is the kind of evidence admissible in a court of law -- documentation. A clever soul found this kind of evidence for the CK series. As to the next Genos, Montage, AN-X? Forget about it. 

Grumpy old man -- pj

[Oxford1035]

Nothing to do with navel gazing. When Glyn Madden makes the comment he did in the Yamaha magazine, a gentleman with close links to Yamaha for a long time now, added to the other points including Yamaha pushing back the club event etc, then I'd be more inclined to think something is likely to happen sooner rather than later. Anyway, I'd much rather look forward to a new keyboard than look at my navel 😉.

Kind regards,

Russ

[JohnS (Ugawoga)]

Hi Sci note
Thank you very much for your comments and will keep on trying.
I said at the end Mr Blue Sky stay and at the beginning i put that little my stamp on there.
Now eventally finishing Mathew and Son.
Sample Robot is fantastic but you have to be careful with the size of your samples as more notes equals lots of megabytes.
Mostly samples on each octave is good.
I just hope on the next Genos that we can load in one sample at a time or just load banks as on most synths. I have the palava with packs.
If only, then we can access sound from a usb stick easily

All the best
John