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Does anyone have experience with the Yamaha Tyros 5 / Genos? (self.Blind)
submitted by Master-Abalone-3146
Hello!
Recently I've been looking into buying a second hand tyros 5. My main reason of course being that it's an amazing keyboard with everything I could possibly need on it, but my second biggest reason is that it's the last flagship model Yamaha keyboard with buttons to control everything.
But this evening I was looking into the Genos out of Curiosity and apparently it has a screenreader, though from what I've wred so far it leaves much to be desired.
My questions would be if anyone has experience with any of these keyboards, what the alternatives are etc.
Kind regards,
Jesper
Recently I've been looking into buying a second hand tyros 5. My main reason of course being that it's an amazing keyboard with everything I could possibly need on it, but my second biggest reason is that it's the last flagship model Yamaha keyboard with buttons to control everything.
But this evening I was looking into the Genos out of Curiosity and apparently it has a screenreader, though from what I've wred so far it leaves much to be desired.
My questions would be if anyone has experience with any of these keyboards, what the alternatives are etc.
Kind regards,
Jesper
underratedwaffles 1 points 1y ago
I was looking at a Tyros 4 then a 5 and then the SX-900 until i came up with "why not get a genos?" and that's what i'm going to do. If you're really about hands on control and you want the buttons get the Tyros 5, but trust me, the OS on the Genos is far superior and the sounds are way better.
Master-Abalone-3146 [OP] 1 points 1y ago
Yes, I know. But it has a touch screen which I can't use, so that will render 90% of the keyboard useless.
bradley22 1 points 1y ago
I've messed around with the tyros 5, the sounds are good but it doesn't have a screen reader.
zersiax 1 points 1y ago
From what I've heard, go with the Tyros. The tutorials over at psrtutorial can probably even help you with figuring out some operations if the manual doesn't, I seem to recall Yamaha having text manuals which are pretty readable.
Genos does have a screen reader but it's based on .wav files for some, but certainly not all of the keyboard's features, which essentially makes you pay for things you can't really use.
Genos does have a screen reader but it's based on .wav files for some, but certainly not all of the keyboard's features, which essentially makes you pay for things you can't really use.
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