Yamaha Montage (NAMM 2016)

[bmrzycki]

There's a long demo video at Sweetwater:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo4jpJFMvqQ

[keyman_sam]

Yikes!! FOUR GRAND.....Yes, that thing costs $4000!!!
http://www.kraftmusic.com/yamaha-montag ... sizer.html


Thanks Yamaha but I'll take omnisphere/zebra/<insert all top 10 synths> and save me a grand or two, enough to get a MoXF8, and still get 10x the sounds.

Who the heck buys these things nowadays anyway? At best I can see someone getting the MoXF range for live use (which is actually great for the price), but this? Kudos to Yamaha for trying but errmm...should be called 'Mortgage' instead.

[Daags]

ugh.. get rid of all the workstation bits and just give me the FM hotness in a little synth/desktop module covered with knobs.

i don't want/need AWM2 or whatever else is in it.

yes, agreed. i don't know when was the last time yamaha did something 'right' for my tastes/needs though.

[keyman_sam]

Ten years ago this thread would have been 20 pages by now.

Nowadays that honor goes to IK multimedia or Spectrasonics or Valhalla and the like. How times have changed!!

[BBFG#]

I'm actually quite intrigued by this keyboard. Been needing/wanting a 76 key for sometime now anyway. But something I'm wondering about as I watch the different demos is if you can turn off the flashing light on the nipple.
(On or off, I don't care. Just as long as it doesn't flash).

[bronxsound]

^
yes you can switch it off

[glokraw]

I like the Montage 6 outline the best, no space is left empty of buttons, knobs, and faders

But where is the beer gonna go?!?

Between c2 and d3

[quilys]

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[DrGonzo]

Thanks Yamaha but I'll take omnisphere/zebra/<insert all top 10 synths> and save me a grand or two, enough to get a MoXF8, and still get 10x the sounds.

Who the heck buys these things nowadays anyway? At best I can see someone getting the MoXF range for live use (which is actually great for the price), but this? Kudos to Yamaha for trying but errmm...should be called 'Mortgage' instead.

I just bought a MOXF and it's bloody fantastic and if the Montage is the next evolution of the Motifs - then it must be a beast. But yeah... the price is outright silly. But I guess it's more of a early bird pricing. If one should go by all the models that came from the Motif range, I wouldn't be surprised to see cheaper Montages coming out in a year or two. Almost every company does this these days. When released full price - then a year or two later - the price is more or less down 25-50 percent with different "sales".

Yes, Waves - I am looking at you.

/C

[bill45]

I'll buy a montage module.

[ObsoleteAcc99]

perfect time to buy a second hand motif rack

[bill45]

The motif es rack is going for around $475

[phreaque]

Any words about user arpeggiator editor for montage?

[ObsoleteAcc99]

The motif es rack is going for around $475

i haven't seen any that cheap but at that price i'd be interested.

I really do need an alternative to the integra (as polyphony gets guzzled fast and we all need a variety!) for acoustic instruments.

I thought about just saving 5k for a kronos and giving up any chance of a car this year, but the fan noise will put me off and i can't find a module of it. I don't have room for another KB.

Do the motif racks have a fan?

I must admit if i go that way, i would want the one that is just before the montage, i think that's the XS as far as racks go?

I will be patient, people will be selling them to buy montage

[bill45]

I've seen XS racks going for about $750.