![]() ![]() ![]() I’m sorry to only be able to give a musician’s advice, in contrast with what an electronic genius’s might be so perhaps this device wasn’t designed for me but they really could have included great sounds – especially considering the many blank memory banks. So you spend your time toying around with ordinary Voices – the same you find on a Motif, except that the Motif’s performances actually do the job. The designers of this pretty toy wanted to please themselves, but in the end this synth is like a cake with so much flavor that it just ends up being plain disgusting – and there we are, you can’t find anything intuitively and making the best out of the Montage requires spending thousands of hours. While we’re at the arpeggiator, it’s way too complicated – so much as it’s almost unusable, plus too many steps are necessary to just insert one. This is a bitter disappointment, as except for perhaps ten sounds nothing is even just playable, let alone the rhythms that were forgotten on most sounds – the same goes with the arpeggiator. ![]() Here comes the first surprise: everything is messy, hard to find anything and the so-called “performances” include complex sounds featuring arpeggios, motion control and other basic –effectless– sounds…Īnd there are many crappy sounds that’ll never get used… HEY, YAMAHA, you DO know that not everyone buying this kind of keyboards is a programmer, don’t you? There are also musicians who don’t want to wait for two years before being able to play something interesting! This is the moment you’ll want to listen to its sounds. Manufacturing quality is good, it gets turned on in no time and everything works so no problem so far. Quickly plugged on, but a sturdy stand is necessary as the keayboard is particularly heavy. The mere unboxing step already reveals a rushed product: the machine lays in a hastily rolled plastic cover with four old-looking yellowish tapes on the corners, a power cord and a hastily written manual with blurry pics and little explanation at all… Yamaha is due WRT MIDI 2.0 and Montage is intended to be a studio's centerpiece that integrates with everything.After 3 months spent watching videos and dreaming to lay my hands on this new synth, the day has finally come.Īs an owner of an MO6 and Motif XS, I really believed the Montage would be Yamaha’s most elaborate synth, but in the end the longer the wait, the cruellest the disillusion. Addition of MIDI 2.0 is the only detail that I'm willing to predict. I expect Yamaha to revert to its mean, AKA incremental evolution consistent with its historical practice. Montage already has a tour-quality build, FSX keybed (aftertouch), more capable audio streaming/processing, built-in power supply, pure analog circuit, balanced TRS and so forth. Thus, I expect Yamaha to create just enough functional distance above MODX+ to justify the higher price of "new Montage". MODX+ established a little too much parity with Montage. Readers here are knowledgeable and know the gory details. The MOs trailed behind the current MOTIF rev. Each revision added some voices/performances and some additional workflow functionality. Please consider the historical progression through MOTIF: MOTIF begat ES begat XS begat XF. Some aspects of this discussion are getting on my elderly nerves.Īh, yes, the "second coming." Didn't we go through this hysteria last summer with MODX -> MODX+? Unabated anticipation followed by complaining 5 minutes after the drop. I grouched at some innocent soul on a different forum. ![]()
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