Suggestions on how to best incorporate audio signals into the motif xs8? I want to put in the sax and vocals into sequenced tracks, then burn a CD

1) use a 1 MB DIMM card or
2) purchase a separate device?

Please keep in mind I am the fossil here.

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unless you are a masochist, #2 is the only solution.

#2 also requires a fair bit of masochism, unfortunately, but you don’t have to tie yourself up in leather and hang from a ceiling like #1

Funkster

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I want to put in the sax and vocals into sequenced tracks, then burn a CD

For some it seems difficult (until they do it), but for most users it is actually very easy to sample tracks to the Motif XS.

You want to get a pair of matching 512MB DIMMs (SDRAM) PC100/PC133 as outlined on page 295 of your Owner’s Manual.

I don’t understand how anyone could consider sampling to the Integrated Sampling Sequencer is at all difficult - you state that your objective it to record Sax and Vocals into sequenced tracks… Most of the difficulty in sampling comes when you are trying to create your own Saxophone Voice or Piano Voice from scratch…

A lot of users think that this is something they want to do… but find that they do not have neither the equipment nor the facilities to do even half as good a job as the manufacturer - after all Yamaha has some of the best facilities in the world for this type of thing…

Attempting to do that, is difficult.

But if what you want to do is overdub a sax solo or a vocal track to your sequences, it is, literally, as easy as plugging in a microphone and arming the sampler. Only external equipment required is a Microphone and good comfortable set of headphones.

The whole concept of the Motif-series’ Integrated Sampling Sequencer (ISS) was so that this function is easy.

_ Set the MIC/LINE parameter to Mic and set the input parameters.
_ In your SONG, select a track to which you want to record yourself
_ Press [INTEGRATED SAMPLING] and select an empty Waveform 0001~1024
_ Press [F6] REC>
_ On the Record Setup screen select “Sample+Note” as the Recording Type… this will automatically create a note-on event to trigger the playback of your audio in sync with your sequence. Each sample is assigned a Key on the keyboard. The notes duration will be set from Punch IN to Punch OUT
_ Check your levels

_ Go.....

Don’t believe it for a minute that it is difficult. It is not.

Once you have recorded your vocals and your sax (and, by the way, you can record multiple passes… each track that you designate as an audio track has 128 storage locations: NOTES… so you can take multiple passes at the vocal or build up backing vocals, etc.)

Then the entire song can be “RESAMPLED” - this RECORDING TYPE allows you to record everything (the entire sequence) to a stereo .wav or AIFF format file which you can then burn to a CD.

Coming in the next major operating system update, you will be able to record the entire thing directly to a USB drive!

If you can walk and chew bubble gum you can sample to the Motif XS sequencer… it is that easy.

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Man Bad_Mister /forums/images/icons/smile.gif alt=

You should be a salesman—it’s always blue sky in yamaha land /forums/images/icons/smile.gif alt=

Yes, its easy to do sampling on the XS, it’s hard to do something useful with it after you sample.

You know the drill, long samples triggered from midi....

It’s not easy to slice, dice, rearrange, loop, etc audio, let alone seek into the middle of an audio track.

That’s when the musician hangs up side down trying to get something done.

Yes sampling is easy, using it like a multitrack recorder or modern HDR based recorder is quite difficult....

Unless you know some easy tricks there!

The Sampling stuff is the leading cause of pleas for a new OS Update /forums/images/icons/smile.gif alt=


Funkster

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Again thanks..sometimes I feel like a gifted chimpanzee trying to grasp thermodynamics.