[ddots-l] Re: Get ready, get ready, get ready!!! The Motif fx

  • From: "Bryan Smart" <BSmart@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 11:11:34 -0500

I suppose that's the upside of me getting rid of mine a few months back. I
got $1400 for it. I saw one this morning on Harmony Central for $900. Don't
you have 2, Gord? Better get cracking on at least one of them. That would be
a huge loss to take.
 
Bryan

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From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Gordon Kent
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 11:06 AM
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Get ready, get ready, get ready!!! The Motif fx


Well, you'll probably be seeing a lot of motif s keyboards going up on EBay
and going cheap.  
Gord

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Bryan Smart <mailto:BSmart@xxxxxxxxx>  
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 7:17 AM
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Get ready, get ready, get ready!!! The Motif fx

Info about the Motif XS has been prematurely leaked due to a slip up at one
of the online stores that would have carried the Motif :].
 
The official announcement will be on Jan 10, and there will be
demonstrations and live units at NAMM. Expected availability is in April.
MSRP for the various models: XS6 $2800, XS7 $3400, XS8 $4000.
 
The new Motif should be as accessible as the classic and ES. Yamaha did not
move to a touch screen, as some feared. The system is still navigated by the
function/subfunction approach. Further, this Motif has many more dedicated
buttons/controls, so this means that it will be even more hands on than
earlier Motifs. The only small drawback is that, since the screen is larger,
there will be more arrowing around the various screens to reach a specific
parameter that you'd like to change, but my old system of describing the
display with tables should still work on the XS. In summary, there is no
reason that we shouldn't expect the same, or better, access to this
iteration of Motif.
 
If you'd like to read the Motifator thread where the Motif XS was leaked and
Yamaha Product Management started spilling the details, then go here:
 
http://www.motifator.com/forums/showflat.php?Cat=1,2,4
<http://www.motifator.com/forums/showflat.php?Cat=1,2,4&Board=MotifES&Number
=299412&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1&vc=1>
&Board=MotifES&Number=299412&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1&vc=1
 
The real dirt is on page 6 of that thread.
 
Here is a quick summary of some of the big new features:
 
Motif internal sample ROM upgraded from 175MB to 350MB with primarily an
upgraded piano and new orchestral sounds
 
Motif now supports Extended Articulation voices (an upgrade over the Tyros 2
Super Articulation voices). Voices now have 8 elements instead of the 4 on
earlier Motifs, with release trigger, legato trigger, and better portamento.
There are buttons for keying on/off groups of these elements. With 8
elements for programming sounds, whole new possibilities are available:
string patches that switch from staccato to Mercado to pizzicato with a
button press, 8-layer sampled instruments, patches that can trigger all
sorts of alternate samples during performance based on controllers, etc.
 
Controllers: Motif now has 8 knobs, 8 sliders, several one-touch voice
adjusting/performance controls, and more. The extra controllers have
expanded the Motif's DAW remote capabilities, also.
 
I/O - Motif now uses USB 2.0 (for rapid loading and saving of sounds),
sounds can be directly moved to/from the Motif over ethernet (Motif will
work as a file server), mLAN is standard, SPDIF is standard.
 
Other misc features - 1GB of sample RAM supported, new component-modeled
insert effects, wave cycling in the synth engine (do wave sequencing like on
the Korg Wavestation), 2 more banks of presets and an extra user bank of
presets, an updated arpeggiator system, arpeggiator phrase factory expanded
from 1700 phrases on ES to over 6000 in XS, can use up to 4 arpeggiators at
once.
 
It looks like quite an upgrade. Of course, we don't know what's coming from
Korg and Roland at NAMM, but Korg's offering will probably have a touch
screen, like everything else they make recently.
 
Start saving your pennies. Dancing Dots will most likely be carrying the
Motif XS.
 
Bryan
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From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Omar Binno
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 6:03 AM
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Get ready, get ready, get ready!!! The Motif fx


it's not motif fx, it's motif xs.

Omar Binno

----- Original Message ----- 
From: James Murphy <mailto:maestro_22@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 5:34 AM
Subject: [ddots-l] Get ready, get ready, get ready!!! The Motif fx

Check on the motifator website
www.motifator.com January 10th.  It's Crazy!!!!!  The motif FX," a new
generation Motif!!!   
 
An the Motif Goes on!!!!!!!        Holaa!!!!

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