Good Luck with that.....

Sincerely
John

There is this one: http://www.sudosonic.com/Prod_Montage.html

I know nothing about it. There is a sample lesson available.

Thanks Lawrence...Those Video on that Website is just cover the basic, He's just walked you around the Montage but does not show you how to program the sounds or does not have any examples how to start from the new INIT and program a Pro sounds for you to follow,

Thanks
Tho

I agree videos would be more clear or at least remove any possible ambiguity except for differences which may occur when firmware is updated and a video is based on older firmware.

General statement about instructions available in the forums ...

For the most part, all instructions I've given use Yamaha nomenclature for referring to buttons which matches the owner's manual. For most buttons that are not clearly labeled to match the button name in the owner's manual (like "Number A [1]-[16]") I usually explain what these are by referencing silkscreens (text) that are on the keyboard as a second reference point. Phil does the same thing, so there should not be a question of what button to press within the instructions.

For touchscreen, I've been designating touchscreen by first calling out "Touchscreen (TS):" then using the abbreviation "TS:" for subsequent steps. When navigating within the touchscreen, I quote what to press which matches the text on the screen - and use a common method of showing nested menus "First menu" -> "Second Menu.

This leaves knobs, faders, and controls which I also use the terms in the manuals. Often adding terms like "left most" to help orient the reader (faders/assignable knobs) when only number would be sufficient.

I think that, like text instructions, even using videos the user can "check out" if they perceive there are too many steps or "it's too hard".

This is where the simple videos come in since some basics can be conveyed without receiving the critique of being too lengthy/detailed/etc. Maybe there's a happy medium - but any help offered is open to one form of critique or another.

Specific to your request (or spirit of your request) ...

"How to program it" is a bit vague. You do allude to some specifics - superknob, arps, motion sequence - but there you are listing what seems to be a rhetorical question on what topics have been discussed or some issue with sorting out the trees from the forest. Search could be improved (to read the forum deep-dive threads) - but Yamaha has put together a great set of tutorials which covers superknob, sidechain, motion sequence, envelope follower, etc. "MASTERING MONTAGE: LESSONS FROM A MASTER" which is in the "Articles" section (see top bar) on this site. And there are other articles there on Cubase/MIDI, Yamaha Connect, ARP Creation.

No, not videos, but clear instructions to get you from newbie to a working level to do something useful.

The forum supplements that material as a deeper-dive is available.

Not everyone sees things the same way - or understands a particular author's lingo - so the forum is also good to double-check an understanding of the documentation. And certainly there are threads where the material is "rehashed" in a way that may be more accessible to a particular user or group of users.

Here are some videos which I take it are not sufficient:

Superknob ("Montage Minute" Series)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUyKeTQ8LPM

Envelope follower
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJkwGUXzqQs

Motion Sequence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9bPn2I9FFU

AEG (Amplitude Envelope Generator)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76XGBsCfJJg

FEG (Filter Envelope Generator)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTmiDZSMpc8

PEG (Pitch Envelope Generator)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y-Wz8GmNRw

AWM2 Elements (Up to 8 "atomic" pieces of a PART)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aikn82Fvswg

Motion Control Tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zcFMro4Q7c

Editing Presets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKivW6u44vA

Initializing Parts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7uhUphm0gM

Basic - (Michael Tan) Yamaha Montage Tutorial - 1. Structure of a performance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAtlU9iVkLY

Basic - (Michael Tan) Yamaha Montage Tutorial - 2. Creating a performance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIumqa4bEZA

following are more in the series (Michael Tan) ...

Basic - Using Buttons (Some shortcut tips)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOJlgSxNrho

Basic - Scenes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c63TWO1dlY

Importing Samples
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXASiv3YfSE

Adding effects to a performance part
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyjjrSo5rhY

Placing performance into Live Set
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyVR4XLGccQ

Creating an instrument using an imported sample
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo0lzByZWGs

(Michael Tan) Yamaha Montage Tutorial - 9. Vocoder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcLIl304dIk

(Michael Tan) Yamaha Montage Tutorial - 10. Guitar Amp Simulator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTNMmW_2sts

Many are sponsored by Yamaha - some are not. There's more. Search engines do not take long to use.

Not a video, but there are other resources such as (and this is just a small sample) FM-X programming:
http://www.easysounds.eu/MusicProductionGuide_2016_03_EN.pdf

Just a reminder that non-video tutorials still have utility.

Edit 11/2016 - adding the cubase tutorials

Mastering MONTAGE: Cubase Setup (Part 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvT6zXOb5W0

Mastering MONTAGE: Cubase Setup (Part 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsh__Bj1Ryw

Mastering MONTAGE: Cubase Setup (Part 3)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axr3GbBCDQA

Mastering MONTAGE: Cubase Setup (Part 4)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbCqFek76ew

Mastering MONTAGE: Cubase Setup (Part 5)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUrOcmgVvhY

Mastering MONTAGE: Cubase Setup (Part 6)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyuxEfDk_hA

Edit 3/17/2017:

Yamaha Montage and Pro Tools MIDI Workflow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF5a_YhjTQg

Yamaha Montage and Pro Tools Wave Files Tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6OykhNDNOQ

Spanish - Quick (no means extensive) FM-X Tutorial: Creating a triangle wave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOt9SiDukBM

Spanish - FM-X Tutorial: Creating a saw wave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHeToBrGklA

Spanish - Creating custom arps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PalhX6GSIvw

Spanish - Using Montage with a DAW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSB_5L-MQY8

Spanish - FM-X for dub step bass ("talking" bass using FM-X)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S6SXbsUZmo

Spanish - How to update Montage firmware (aka watching paint dry - or real-time update of v1.20 to v1.50)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_rYbv8-P8g

Spanish - Programming an "Acid" Bass using FM-X
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kql4SCQdY94

Spanish - Using a USB drive to load a MIDI file (simple)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRqW2LlCJj0

Yamaha Montage Lesson #2 (Selecting/Saving Sounds)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okOiV3yynMk

Yamaha MONTAGE Firmware Update OS 1.50 (Overview of new features)
https://youtu.be/qioFG2YnEbM

MONTAGE minute OS 1.50 Part 1 EN
https://youtu.be/NKGWjaUqhX8

MONTAGE minute OS 1.50 Part 2 EN (New velocity range display)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7exjPslyG0

MONTAGE minute OS 1.50 Part 3 EN (Working with new "Favorites" function)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QubpV59hiDg

MONTAGE minute OS 1.50 Part 4 EN (New feature to unlink some assignable knobs from superknob)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP1-PlCizBo

MONTAGE minute OS 1.50 Part 5 EN (New part replacement features)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H1AdN_K41Q

MONTAGE minute OS 1.50 How to use a Motion Sequence for a fade out - EN
https://youtu.be/UKt17xUV_Ao

MONTAGE minute OS 1.50 Super Knob Link - EN (another different video of same topic as Part 4)
https://youtu.be/0ksEg9ASark

NOTE: Montage Minute series also available in German - click on youtube (EN) video to see other links available.

Thank you for assembling those You Tube links!

Thank you Jason.
I can add the 11 Moessieurs videos i done, in French, all subtitles in English grouped on this Moessieurs page :

http://www.moessieurs.com/videos-moessieurs-montage.html

- Discovering Montage Basics.
- Made a performance.
- Switching sounds : Scene Memory / SSS/ Live Set
- Understand and using Assign Control
- Using Octave +/- & transpose.
- Using and understanding Knob Position 1/2
- Discovering OS 1.20 new fuctions.
- Using Montage Connect Basics.
- Os update of the Montage
- Using top screen icons.
- Utility Contents 4 pages : understanding and manage your Montage Memory.

All the Phil (Alias Bad Mister) learning videos are grouped in this Moessieurs dedicated page :

http://www.moessieurs.com/videos-phil-montage.html

Also the great Webcast with Blake Angelos

https://youtu.be/GvyC6s8mGi0

Thank you, too, Joel, for all that you do on Moessieurs...

Thank You all, 😉 😉 😉 😉

So, has Yamaha given up on making their own Video Tutorials for the Montage ? Should I just forget about waiting for them to show up in the near future ?

Honestly, I'm not happy about the lack of video-tutorial support for the Montage from Yamaha. No excuses ... We are in 2016, come on Yamaha, what are you waiting for ? Youtube ? come on... make them and post them for us, who invested into your awesome Montage Synth. , and have been begging you for a in-depth video tutorial series, and this should be free !

Thanks.

As I mentioned, many are from Yamaha. The 9 quality tutorials from Michael Tan appear to have Yamaha sponsorship and production given the high quality of the editing, video, use of the company animated logo, etc. I did not break apart where each tutorial came from, but a playlist may be easier to manage;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAtlU9iVkLY&list=PLxEKSIkCIKA3rElm_lzeu6M-yOFV35etT

Posting date shows Aug 23, 2016 - so maybe not meeting your timetable expectations - but still a quality effort.

I like the post-effects they put on the video to highlight what to press. I like that, unlike some, Michael has blur turned OFF so the touchscreen is as clear as possible.

I don't know where Katsunori Ujiie's videos fall - but I see these as fairly close to a "Yamaha" video although he seems to have a bit more autonomy (more of a consultant than full-time employee). I'm just guessing, but I think it's fair to lump his few videos into the "from Yamaha" category.

So maybe just over a couple handfuls of high-quality videos directly from Yamaha. I'm, of course, not counting any of the marketing videos which includes the vast array of feature-oriented videos done by various Yamaha product specialists.

Maybe I'm archaic - but I'm fairly happy with the documentation available. This includes lots of "printed" material including website articles (this site - "blog like" - but they call them articles here), magazine articles, and the manuals (owners, new feature, data list, reference manual). There's enough that some of my questions are deemed as too acute for discussion. But this is what will happen when the documentation is complete save some specific details.

I have had to work at certain areas like how motion control works - but there's enough information to arrive at an understanding if willing to do some work. I agree there could be more detail in what's available - but hardly (in my opinion) insufficient to the level of the "this day and age" argument.

It's helpful to know if the customer base wants video tutorials and there is encouragement to focus more on video tutorials. So I'm sure your feedback, in aggregate, is useful for shaping the future support.