How to find your download data:

If you are looking for items for the Montage (for example)...

In the USA, you would go to the country portal:

http://usa.yamaha.com

Select PRODUCTS > "Synthesizers & Music Production Tools" > "Synthesizers" > select "Montage" and click on "DOWNLOADS"

Now everything concerning the Motif XF shows up in one place

Hi, thanks for the reply. Your link took me to the same place I tried downloading the update from before. I clicked on the 1.51 update and downloaded it. When I open the download on my Mac, it is PDF files for what looks like the owners manual.
Not sure where Yamaha has the updater hidden 🙁

Sorry for any confusion. The download should include several PDFs (these are the New Feature Supplemental Manual in 12 languages), there are two READ ME files which are the instructions for the use of the firmware update file (Japanese and English). The actual updater file is ultimately for the Montage. It is named 8N70OS_.PGM

It is this file you must unzip and move to the root directory of a USB stick and install to the Montage by powering On - holding the two front panel buttons as outlined in the READ ME file.

Let us know... the entire download should be 96.9MB
I just verified the above.

montage151.zip contents:

[code type=text]
Date Time Attr Size Compressed Name
------------------- ----- ------------ ------------ ------------------------
2017-03-01 16:10:10 ....A 377487360 77305994 montage1518N70OS_.PGM
2017-01-20 10:29:22 ....A 1955372 1748553 montage151montage_de_nf_c0.pdf
2017-01-26 14:02:24 ....A 5113696 4863874 montage151montage_en_dl_d0.pdf
2017-01-20 10:30:24 ....A 1946881 1740177 montage151montage_en_nf_c0.pdf
2017-01-20 10:28:20 ....A 1952662 1748673 montage151montage_es_nf_c0.pdf
2017-01-20 10:31:36 ....A 1961219 1757442 montage151montage_fr_nf_c0.pdf
2017-01-20 10:32:34 ....A 1957428 1753748 montage151montage_it_nf_c0.pdf
2017-01-20 10:33:38 ....A 2039257 1829719 montage151montage_ja_nf_c0.pdf
2017-01-20 10:35:58 ....A 2105596 1885295 montage151montage_ko_nf_c0.pdf
2017-01-20 10:37:02 ....A 1949610 1745851 montage151montage_nl_nf_c0.pdf
2017-01-20 10:38:02 ....A 1953632 1749703 montage151montage_pt_nf_c0.pdf
2017-01-20 10:38:56 ....A 1992882 1787886 montage151montage_ru_nf_c0.pdf
2017-01-20 10:39:52 ....A 1932511 1725123 montage151montage_zh_nf_c0.pdf
2017-03-03 14:27:32 ....A 9991 3484 montage151v151_Readme_en.txt
2017-03-03 14:20:50 ....A 9675 3634 montage151v151_Readme_ja.txt
------------------- ----- ------------ ------------ ------------------------
2017-03-03 14:27:32 404367772 101649156 15 files
[/code]

So when you extract this ZIP file, look under a sub-directory "montage151" for the .PGM file.

The 8N700s file is in my downloads. Thanks! Now, I can not get my Mac with Mavericks to unzip the file. Right clicking on it does nothing. Double clicking opens a window that says I need to choose an application to unzip the file.
I have Googled how to unzip a file on a Mac and no help there.

Any idea how I may unzip the file?

Thank you!

Your computer cannot do anything with the 8N70OS_.PGM file, simply COPY it from your Dowloads area to a USB stick's root directory.
Take the USB stick and plug it into the TO DEVICE port on your Montage, then Power on the Montage while holding down the two buttons as instructed.

Brian wrote:

Any idea how I may unzip the file?

Thank you!

Simply double (left) click and OSX will exgtract the all the files from the zip file to a folder. Sorry, now I see that it asks you for a program. That is strange. OSX has built in tools for extracting zipped files. Try unrarX. It is a shareware app. Just google for it and you will see where to download it from. There are quite a few extracting apps for osx/macos.

Sladjan wrote:

Brian wrote:

Any idea how I may unzip the file?

Thank you!

Simply double (left) click and OSX will exgtract the all the files from the zip file to a folder. Sorry, now I see that it asks you for a program. That is strange. OSX has built in tools for extracting zipped files. Try unrarX. It is a shareware app. Just google for it and you will see where to download it from. There are quite a few extracting apps for osx/macos.

Thanks! I will try unrarX

Bad Mister wrote:

Your computer cannot do anything with the 8N70OS_.PGM file, simply COPY it from your Dowloads area to a USB stick's root directory.
Take the USB stick and plug it into the TO DEVICE port on your Montage, then Power on the Montage while holding down the two buttons as instructed.

This is correct. I had been told that I needed to unzip the file first.

Sorry it that was unclear, you should unzip the zip file that you download. not the file itself. once you unzip the folder there you get pdf files with instructions and the firmware update file which has to be put on the usb stick as described before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryozya2ggDw

Replace the "project.rar" file in the video with the ".zip" file you download from Yamaha as the extractor works for ZIP files the same as it works for RAR.

There's lots of videos of how to unzip files.

Some say you just double click the file and it happens without installing anything. Some say this doesn't work. There's a solution out there and search engines or youtube can help you.