Re: [MoAccess] Motif XF
- From: Justin Kauflin <blindguy500@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: MoAccess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:34:07 -0400
I'm jealous. Looks like the XF is going on my ever expanding wish list.:) If
I could only get my bank account to expand just as fast....
Glad your enjoying it, and just as glad to hear that the menu format
hasn't changed too much.
Justin
On Sep 10, 2010, at 5:56 AM, Bryan Smart wrote:
> I got my XF6 today.
>
> Besides the color, and slightly different textured finish, it is physically
> identical to an XS, as far as I can tell. Of course, the access panel on the
> bottom is a little different, etc.
>
> The new sounds are pretty good. The good thing about them is that they're
> sounds that the XS didn't have. The XS clavs weren't that good. The new clavs
> have multiple layers, and cycle through different samples for the same layer.
> That makes them sound less sample-like. The XS had exactly one accordian
> program, and it was bad. The new accordians are the neatest ones that I've
> heard on a synth, and use the AF buttons a little like the switches on a real
> accordian. The XS's combo organs were very weak, mainly synthesizing them out
> of basic waveforms. The xF now has real combo organ samples. There are new
> trumpets (with shakes and other effects), new saxes that sound awesome,
> additional strings (several articulations), several ethnic instruments, a new
> mega voice electric guitar, some new electric basses, new acoustic and
> electronic drums, and, of course, the new S6 piano. There aren't a lot of new
> sounds, but the ones that are new are pretty good ones. Yamaha is also
> supposedly putting out a free 400MB expansion in a week or so. If you just
> want presets, then that bank will fill up the remaining 3 user banks, giving
> you a total of 1664 presets and over a gig of total samples. Pretty good stuf.
>
> I have heard a few of the new arps, but seriously won't be digging in that
> deep for a while.
>
> I've only messed around with it a bit, but, for the most part, the layout of
> all of the screens seems to be the same as the XS. The file mode is a little
> different. Will need to get my reader to look at that.
>
> Nice board.
>
> Bryan
>
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