Montage 201: This 3-part video series features Product Specialist Tony Escueta - and is the perfect follow up to the 6-part MONTAGE 101 series. In these videos Tony shows how to easily split and layer MONTAGE; how to save Scenes; and, assign expressive articulations to fit your playing style.
Layering and splitting Parts in a Performance
Layering and splitting Parts in a Performance is an important skill. In this initial video, Tony shows how easy it is to create dynamic and expressive Performances:
Building Custom Scenes
Tony demonstrates how to save and recall Scenes within a Performance. Scenes contain custom Performance set ups like Part mutes, volume, pan and effect settings and are recallable at the touch of a button:
Setting up and using custom Performances Articulations
Tony shows how you can assign the physical controls on MONTAGE to different articulations on MONTAGE:
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Yamaha Synthesizer Product Specialist Blake Angelos has over thirty years of experience with music hardware and software. An expert in music technology, Blake has conducted numerous clinics, master classes and presentations throughout the United States, Europe and Canada. In his role as Product Specialist for the Synthesizer Department Blake appears in many product videos and artist interviews, writes many articles for YamahaSynth.com and co-hosts a regular Podcast called “Behind the Synth”.
Before his work with Yamaha, he taught music theory and jazz studies courses at Arizona State University; managed a technology-focused music store in Seattle and was a production supervisor at Microsoft, where he led a team that developed groundbreaking interactive music content for the Microsoft Network. Blake holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Northern Colorado and a Master of Music degree from Arizona State University. Blake currently resides in Bellingham, Washington with his family, and between his travels around the world for Yamaha, he performs as much as possible with several jazz and creative music groups in Bellingham, Seattle and other places in the Pacific Northwest.
