Five keys to becoming an MX power user! The MX has a lot of power under the hood. These five tips cover a range of performance and production features. Check it out!
Add lush pads to your piano sound, or layer strings with a woodwind section for a fuller orchestral sound.
Performance Basics, Part 1:
Need to play bass on your gig? This video shows you how to split the keyboard to do just that.
Performance Basics, Part 2:
Customize your sound with the control knobs.
Performance Basics, Part 3:
Add FM Synthesis to MX with FM Essential, a free iOS FM synth app.
FM Essential:
Connect and record with Cubase AI – a FREE download with all MX Series synths.
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.
