AnotherScott
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New budget priced Yamaha Montage M

Yeah, even if there's an M6x and M7x at some point, the M6 and M7 will not become the effective "MODX replacement." There needs to be more differentia...

7 months ago
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M - confirmed - you can now store performances with a preferred part pre-selected

This is a nice one! IIRC, this was a big issue when using a Performance with an External zone, where you wanted the knobs to affect your external soun...

7 months ago
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Montage M - what 'key repetition behaviour' is Yamaha referring to?

Jason's got it right (as usual). I'll just add a bit... it's not so much about "fast" repetition as it is about "soft" (or fast and soft) repetition. ...

7 months ago
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Background on GEX key technology

[quotePost id=123809]Interesting that you should use that term 'piano-width keys'. As far as I can tell there doesn't seem to be any standard at all f...

7 months ago
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Montage M - 16 or 8 part keyboard control?

Jason, just in terms of your pre-M Montage knowledge, off-hand, do you have any insight into why the 4-part CFX was set up as 4 Parts, when its 18 ele...

7 months ago
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Confirmed: parts 9-16 do NOT have keyboard control available - Confirmed: the 128 element limit is NOT for the performance but for each part

My understanding: a wavetable synth loops/connects/manipulates sampled waveforms. Analog/VA doesn't loop anything, it generates the waveforms as it go...

7 months ago
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Confirmed: parts 9-16 do NOT have keyboard control available - Confirmed: the 128 element limit is NOT for the performance but for each part

[quotePost id=123721]But to then decide not to change the M6 & M7 keybeds to use AT capable ones, they essentially shot themselves in the foot. [/quot...

7 months ago
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Montage M - 16 or 8 part keyboard control?

Getting back to the 8 vs 16 parts topic, I thought it was interesting that Blake talked about how the 18-element CFX piano that took 4 Parts on the Mo...

7 months ago
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Confirmed: parts 9-16 do NOT have keyboard control available - Confirmed: the 128 element limit is NOT for the performance but for each part

[quotePost id=123684]the 16 voices for VA modelling isn't nearly spectacular enough[/quotePost] [quotePost id=123688]I don't know enough about the la...

7 months ago
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Montage M - 16 or 8 part keyboard control?

Cool idea, Darryl, but sure is a whole lot more work than if there were simply a new Performance command, "Copy to User section" 🙂

7 months ago
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Montage M - 16 or 8 part keyboard control?

[quotePost id=123660]It's waveform location based. If I'm not mistaken Bad Mister explained in the past that it had to do with the fact that preset...

7 months ago
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What's in a name? (The M After Montage)

[quotePost id=123382] If the Montage M doesn't have a fully functional sequencer, and you don't want to pay the exorbitant price for Cubase/Pro, then ...

7 months ago
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MODX+ only has one SWP

[quotePost id=123288] I played a P-125 and DGX-670 side-by-side. The two instruments felt different. (I preferred the 670 and found it acceptable.) [...

8 months ago
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Help on performance searching

You also might find Live Set re-ordering more efficient with the PC/Mac-based editor from John Melas...

8 months ago
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Kind of why AWM2 is a dead end

Yamaha got there 30 years ago. It would be great to see what they could do with that tech today.

9 months ago
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