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I don't like MP3/WAV or DAW-files playing. From a live-player's perspective they are too static and fixed in time.
Therefore I use a loop station like the Boss RC-202.
Yamaha has Tyros and CVP styles custom made for the Yamaha hardware.
The accompaniment, triggered by and following the keyboard, is a great way of having a one-person band for solo-gigs.
You can add or shorten what ever you like, change keys on the fly, add chords and modulations in between and it follows like an arpeggiator.
Roland has the BK-7m module. It can be used with the Montage.
I never understood (except marketing purposes) the difference between Tyros and Motif.
Wouldn't it be great if Yamaha offered their own backing module and styles including articulation options, and so on?
They do have the technology. Why don't they produce and sell the hardware?
I would love to have such a standalone unit like the BK-7m available but then optimized for the Montage.
Posted : 04/10/2016 10:20 am
Hello Jan - for standalone gigs, the Tyros is unbeatable, both for quality of sounds (all usable!) and backing tracks, the mechanical nature of which can be broken up at will in several ways (keeps you busy!). The Motif was never meant for that purpose - it was a synthesiser, not an arranger. I never really liked it (I had an XS7), nor the MOX6 that followed it, despite being more synth orientated than arranger. I didn't expect to buy a Montage, as I totally refuse 'pre-orders' - but by chance I was in the right place when a 'pre-order' was cancelled when the unit arrived. So I bought it despite my previous Motif/MOX experience. I'm glad I did - it is a far superior machine to either - but for its capability as a synth. I'd not use it for gigging, although it does have handy features like live sets. I still have my Tyros 3, and will not part with it for when I feel like trying my hand at actual music. So rather than trying to turn a Montage into a Tyros - why not just use the Tyros?
Posted : 04/10/2016 7:06 pm
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Hi Rod,
Thanks for your advice. But in fact you give the answer to your question yourself: The Montage is a 'far-superior-machine'.
I have the Montage 8 now for over 5 months, I'm addicted. I can not go back in time.
But I hope I can bring history to the future, With a little help of the Yamaha engineers.
Posted : 04/10/2016 9:56 pm
See your point Jan - but my view is that the Montage is far superior to the Motif/MOX series. Not the Tyros. The Tyros is better than the Montage for gigging around because of its musical versatility and ease of use. The Montage is a complex and highly capable synth. I actually like your idea of a module for backing tracks, but I wonder if it would sell well enough to justify the investment? And it's an extra chunk to lug about and hook up, no small matter if you have a Montage 8! That's a serious lump! Oddly, I'm tending in the other direction - to simplify backing tracks. One of the reasons I bought the Montage was a vague idea to use the arpeggiator for a backing track - I've not got near looking at that yet, but it's attractive to me.
Posted : 05/10/2016 6:14 am
