Yeah, engineering cost isn't free but the cost to design a good layout is nothing compared to what you have to do on the back end with a noisy system ...

I don't like the GHS either. I tried to like it since the "MO" line is such a great value proposition for someone like me who uses a keyboard as a gi...

I didn't comment on momentary vs. latching this round - but I agree that both the part select/keyboard control buttons and their shifted counterparts ...

Yamaha has a tradition of using stable (old) tech and not chase the latest USB bus, wireless tech, touchscreen technology, and on and on. So I'm not...

I take that back about netlist/footprint change. Seek (longer) and you shall find. On the left side of the board inside the "sea" of "can" caps (sil...

IC403 (the part with a square sticker on the MODX+ in the lower-right corner of the board) is a different package. The original artwork from MODX has...

One criticism of the YouTube video given as an example to mimic: the video cut scenes were not extremely helpful and often distracting. There would b...

I used it in a manner like: "you can go outside, but wear your jacket because it's raining". Anyways - technically when recording single Part sound...

I'm not sure you were catching what I was throwing. You can use overdub but make sure to manage what "tracks" (Parts) you want to record. If you te...

Part 1 = Piano Part 2 = Bass I would first turn keyboard control off of every Part 1-8. Then select Part 1 to record track 1. Then select Part ...

Before the teaser "sneak peek" content came out - I had some wishful thinking on those 8 buttons below the sliders and how they could relate to the tw...

This still applies for posting inline images: ... follow the links in this message to get more detail. Even though this was 5 years ago I st...

There is one interesting knob on the far left side above the modulation wheels that doesn't seem to get much attention so far... It's been discusse...

Yeah, my last octave key post had a paragraph talking about how adding transpose in addition would be useful but there are a few problems with that in...

The octave key thing comes from a school of synth playing (typically small number of keys) where you would play and repeat a run and hit octave up/dow...