Hi everybody,

i’m in very sad, because my motif xs 8 isnt working proper.
Before I updated it, everything was fine but now i cant imagine what i can do to fix it.

So here is my problem:

After the first time I powered on the synthesizer all features were reseted and set to “Initialized Voice(Performanc,...)”. And the point is, only the voices had been sorted like they were before. But not the “Initialized Performance” it hasn´t changed his state yet.
The Performance Libery looks like destroyed, only unnamed entrys in there. (with no connect to voice and appreciator).

So my question is, what can I do to change it? I would be very happy if you could help me pls.

*I havent safed user data, just wanted to reset all

Press [UTILITY]
Press [JOB]
Press [ENTER]
Press [YES]

masterdisk123 - 01 September 2011 04:42 PM

Hi everybody,

i’m in very sad, because my motif xs 8 isnt working proper.
Before I updated it, everything was fine but now i cant imagine what i can do to fix it.

So here is my problem:

After the first time I powered on the synthesizer all features were reseted and set to “Initialized Voice(Performanc,...)”. And the point is, only the voices had been sorted like they were before. But not the “Initialized Performance” it hasn´t changed his state yet.
The Performance Libery looks like destroyed, only unnamed entrys in there. (with no connect to voice and appreciator).

So my question is, what can I do to change it? I would be very happy if you could help me pls.

*I havent safed user data, just wanted to reset all

Press UTILITY.
Press JOB.
Press ENTER
Press YES.

This will restore all factory voices and performances.

Thank you both very much. It works fine now.

Doing this

Utility
Job
Enter
Yes

will it bring back the old OS Version?

Please help, I just updated my OS to 1.6 and Voices are the only ones working.

Thanks,
Eric

jovert - 20 September 2011 05:54 AM

Doing this

Utility
Job
Enter
Yes

will it bring back the old OS Version?

Please help, I just updated my OS to 1.6 and Voices are the only ones working.

Thanks,
Eric

That button sequence does a factory reset, as per the instructions for doing the update. It does not “bring back the old OS Version”. Press those buttons, and let us know if your problem is resolved.

thanks I’ll try them and let this forum know..

Thanks so much for your help.  I just did the same thing updating to version 1.60.  Wiped out all the Performance and Master settings.  Factory reset brought them all back.  Again, many thanks.

i’m in very sad, because my motif xs 8 isnt working proper.
Before I updated it, everything was fine but now i cant imagine what i can do to fix it.

Actually I found this a bit irresponsible of Yamaha. Luckily, in these cases, I do normally do my homework well before doing updates. I read and ask around. I remembered one post mentioning that “you needed to do a factory reset after updates”. I did not take that seriously at the time. I trusted that all necessary steps be there in the upgrade instructions. I got the scare of my life when I got all initialized performances etc. !!! All this should be included in the upgrade instructions (to put the instrument back into original out-of-the box state). Any changes/additions are of course the user’s responsibility!

By the way, I thought 1.30 was the latest firmware! Is 1.40, 1.50 out now? Can I upgrade directly from 1.20? I’m still on 1.20!

omar17166 - 06 February 2012 02:19 AM

By the way, I thought 1.30 was the latest firmware! Is 1.40, 1.50 out now? Can I upgrade directly from 1.20? I’m still on 1.20!

Your profile tells that you have an XF although you’ve posted this in the XS forum. For the XF, the latest (current) version is 1.30. For the XS, it is 1.60.

Hope that helps.

Thanks Vikas. I was in the XS forum indeed. Must have clicked on the wrong area.

I was in the XS forum indeed. Must have clicked on the wrong area.

How irresponsible ? :-)

The instructions included with the UPDATER are fairly clear - and if they were not provided that would be irresponsible - but since they are - it is really on the person downloading to READ the instructions through, then do the update while reading the instructions through the second time. And more importantly - complete the instructions as wrtten.

And because reading is always a wildcard, even if you had downloaded the Motif XS’s 1.60 and tried to update your Motif XF, the instrument can ‘read’ and would know enough not to proceed, as it looks for a specific file name and header in the file.

Hopefully, updates in the future will be made easier - as with Ethernet it can be all done without the customer having to read (much) :-)

Bad_Mister - 06 February 2012 06:44 AM

Hopefully, updates in the future will be made easier - as with Ethernet it can be all done without the customer having to read (much) :-)

Now that’s some good News :-)

VikasSharma - 06 February 2012 09:13 AM

Bad_Mister - 06 February 2012 06:44 AM

Hopefully, updates in the future will be made easier - as with Ethernet it can be all done without the customer having to read (much) :-)

Now that’s some good News :-)

Very “punny”. :-)

Since this is in the XS forum, I’m interested in knowing if/when any of the XF 1.30 updates are going to be available in an XS OS. It seems that at least some of the new XF features should be compatible.

omar17166 - 06 February 2012 02:19 AM

Actually I found this a bit irresponsible of Yamaha. Luckily, in these cases, I do normally do my homework well before doing updates. I read and ask around. I remembered one post mentioning that “you needed to do a factory reset after updates”. I did not take that seriously at the time. I trusted that all necessary steps be there in the upgrade instructions. I got the scare of my life when I got all initialized performances etc. !!! All this should be included in the upgrade instructions (to put the instrument back into original out-of-the box state). Any changes/additions are of course the user’s responsibility!

You know I was a little upset at Yamaha, too, until I went back and reviewed the update instructions and found the direction to perform a factory reset after the update was complete. I guess I didn’t notice that direction since the instructions said the update would erase all user performances—not factory installed performances.  So when I saw the initialized performances and masters, I was stunned and was distracted from the rest of the instructions.  Serves me right.

It still would have been better for the instructions to have mentioned that the update would wipe the factory installed performances and masters and they’d have to be reloaded at the end of the update, imho.

All Performances and Masters are USER. There are no PRESET Performances or Masters.