What features won’t the XF have that’s listed right out of the box?

XF Foot pedals, Flash, and Firewire are the options!

Optional items:
FC3 Sustain Pedal
FC4/FC5 momentary pedal
FC7 Foot Controller
FW16E - Firewire expansion board
FL512/FL1024 - Flash Memory Expansion Modules (2 Slots)

Every Motif XF comes with:
_ The 128MB SDRAM is built-in… (that’s 128MB more than the XS or ES; and 124MB more than the Motif classic)
_ 741MB WAVE ROM built-in (that’s more than double the XS; four times the ES; eight times the Motif classic)
_ 3,977 Waveforms built-in (that’s 1307 more than the XS; 2118 more than the ES; 2668 more than the Motif classic)
_ 7,881 Arpeggio types built-in (that’s 1248 more than the XS; 6094 more than the ES, and 7625 more than the Motif classic)
_ Ethernet is standard
_ USB TO DEVICE/TO HOST ports standard
_ MIDI jacks IN/OUT/THRU standard
_ S/PDIF digital output standard
_ Eight PRESET Voice BANKS
_ Four USER Voice BANKS
_ Four USER Performance BANKS

the color will be available out of the box.

So a user can do all the sampling, editing, sequencing features etc, immediately or do users have to wait for a 6 month OS upgrade?

“the color will be available out of the box. “

Who cares about a black color, silver was better anyway.

So a user can do all the sampling, editing, sequencing features etc, immediately

Correct.

Actually it’s a good question. On Monday, here in the US we will open all the Motif XF (which arrived in our warehouse on Friday) and update all the US units from version 1.0 to version 1.1. 

There are actually many new features in 1.1 including loading multiple samples from a folder at the same time, category search for arps and waveforms and new load and copy functions for the Flash boards.

We understand the plan in other parts of the world is ship with version 1.0 and the 1.1 version OS update will be available on Yamahasynth.com at the very beginning of September.

So the answer to the question, what features are included out of the box is in the US everything and other places version 1.0 features only. 

In the US the XF will include all the features discussed here “out of the box”’ because we will open the box here and update all the units we . An exact same situation happened with the XS actually.

Other areas don’t have the logistic capability to do these very large warehouse service projects and so must rely on the end users to update.

We will post the manual for the XF and for the OS update on Monday.

Yamaha_US - 21 August 2010 11:08 AM

Actually it’s a good question. On Monday, here in the US we will open all the Motif XF (which arrived in our warehouse on Friday) and update all the US units from version 1.0 to version 1.1. 

There are actually many new features in 1.1 including loading multiple samples from a folder at the same time, category search for arps and waveforms and new load and copy functions for the Flash boards.

We understand the plan in other parts of the world is ship with version 1.0 and the 1.1 version OS update will be available on Yamahasynth.com at the very beginning of September.

So the answer to the question, what features are included out of the box is in the US everything and other places version 1.0 features only. 

In the US the XF will include all the features discussed here “out of the box”’ because we will open the box here and update all the units we . An exact same situation happened with the XS actually.

Other areas don’t have the logistic capability to do these very large warehouse service projects and so must rely on the end users to update.

We will post the manual for the XF and for the OS update on Monday.

Thanks Yamaha US

Very informative and cool!

Who gets the first units local retailers or mail order companies, same time?

Bad_Mister - 21 August 2010 10:45 AM

Every Motif XF comes with:
_ The 128MB SDRAM is built-in… (that’s 128MB more than the XS or ES; and 124MB more than the Motif classic)

...but after few dollar upgrade 128MB is 1920MB less than you can have in XS.

tuquoque - 21 August 2010 11:52 AM

Bad_Mister - 21 August 2010 10:45 AM

Every Motif XF comes with:
_ The 128MB SDRAM is built-in… (that’s 128MB more than the XS or ES; and 124MB more than the Motif classic)

...but after few dollar upgrade 128MB is 1920MB less than you can have in XS.

I think their new goal is to get you to buy the XF and Flash option. Then you’ll be happy, and they’ll be happy.

They say it’s better for your health less doctor bills. That way you don’t get sick or tired and fatigued from waiting on the sounds and samples to load to DIMM memory modules. Or from having to run forty blocks off the stage from being chased by crowds after telling them it may take another forty five minutes to load your concert soundset.