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

  • From: "Omar Binno" <omarbinno@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 12:24:32 -0500

I heard that when Yamaha brought out the Tyros 2, they planned on discontinuing 
the plg boards option in any keyboards they would release from then on. That 
kind of sucks because, especially with the vl plg board, those had some really 
nice sounds. Also, the new xs can hold 1 gig of sampling memory, but can't the 
es unofficially do that already?

Omar Binno
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bryan Smart 
  To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 11:11 AM
  Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Get ready, get ready, get ready!!! The Motif fx


  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 
    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&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 
      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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