Waiting for Bad Mister to comment here. The tech at Yamaha said he thought it was indeed possible to do it internally via a firmware update.
The only limitation would be the polyphony but at 128 per side it should be very doable.........

Another engineer today said it was possible......Lets hope BM can work his magic.

This is great !

Regards

Dan

Hello David
When you tried to control the parts 9-16 with a remote synth, did you assign each zone on the same midi channel ?

Regards
Dan

david wrote:

It's a work around but it does work. The Montage is clearly 16 performance/part multitimbral machine so It should not explode! I did the same thing using a remote synth to control the 9-16 (external MIDI conroller) but I don't understand why the Montage can't perform this task internally instead of using up the MIDI ports. I got it to work after midnight so I didn't attempt to clean it up like with the echo that was mentioned. Certain voices and settings will be better than others. I just grabbed some random parts up to a full 16 and made sure that all of them were sounding. Think of the FMX with16 parts for a real power performance. I would mute channels 1-15 to make sure 16 was working in performance mode, then wash, rinse, repeat, testing one channel at a time. Once I got the hang of it then it wasn't too bad. It's a new designer possibility and you can mute parts in the mixer on the fly. When I get back tomorrow I'll provide some better instructions. Thanks

Chris wrote:

Can someone please provide a step by step instructions how to do this?

I'm sorry, Chris - what is it you need step-by-step instruction to know how to do?