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It would be great if Yamaha offered a 2-3 day Montage Boot Camp. Yamaha would plan a series of road shows to give the boot camp around the US.
We fly in and get 2-3 days of instruction and tutorials from the experts regarding the entire Montage platform—from a 10,000 foot overview, to programming in the trenches, and all points in between. It would be videotaped, so we could review the videos afterwards.
Signed autographs from the presenters.
I would want a certificate with gold foil around the edges.
I'd go for $1,000 for that session (plus or minus).
Karl
Posted : 16/06/2017 7:48 pm
I can't speak for anyone, but just have a generic thought ... I guess find 50-200 like-minded folks per city. It'd be difficult for anyone to consider boot camps with a low attendee-to-presenter ratio.
If you're (and everyone else is) willing to spend that change - maybe 600 and cover your own flight/lodging to wherever Yamaha feels they can host these sessions. May be able to roll in some kind of tour of something inspiring to encourage brand loyalty seeing some kind of "here you see Yamaha doing something fancy looking to make products better" type deal.
Either way - lots of logistics.
Current Yamaha Synthesizers: Montage Classic 7, Motif XF6, S90XS, MO6, EX5R
Posted : 17/06/2017 8:32 am
We've done these in the past for Motif-series (and it does not require anything like 50-200 people) I don't think we could accommodate that many folks at once... we did them at local music stores, who were able to do the job of assembling the local Motif owners into groups. We did it over several days and it was a quite comprehensive "Master Class" on the Motif series.
In the first year of Montage we've already done formal training sessions in half a dozen cities across the US, (for retailers). Sessions averaged around 16-20 attendees at time... we did several sessions per city. If you're interested in such a thing for end users, we can recommend you start by approaching your local music store. It's the kind of thing they might be very interested in doing for their customers... but you have to let them know. They can be very instrumental in gathering interested parties into groups.
They know they can then approach Yamaha about getting it to happen. I don't remember the fee charged for the Master Classes (that was up to the dealer) mostly it was setup so attendees could apply the fee towards discounts on support items purchased at the store within the next year... things like that (it was up to the host store).
Of course, the Motif Master Classes were more than a decade ago... today they maybe looking at doing something online (as getting folks off the sofa has become increasingly problematic)...
Posted : 19/06/2017 3:02 pm
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Online would be cool. Would Yamaha consider a Montage online "master class"?
Posted : 20/06/2017 7:31 pm
