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Bad_Mister
Total Posts: 36620
Joined 07-30-2002 status: Moderator |
First, it’s 166MB but who’s counting? Oh, that’s right, YOU are! :-) Yes it is so expensive to add more Wave ROM, you bet it is!!! On this you will have to trust me. The concept of putting the essential Waveform library from the Motif XS-series in the MX is a good solid one. It has been accomplished. And I’m am sitting here knowing that you don’t even have a clue about which of Waveforms were left out. I’m quite sure it is really an empty protest on your part. Can you name a principal sound that you cannot recreate on the MX? The selection was very well done, in actuality. And if you were given all the information and the price point to match, you might have selected exactly the same 166MB of Waveforms that appear. At the price point this product lives, and it is misunderstood by more than just you, but its because you are a pessimist - half empty kind of view. But nothing that is a co-processor for a computer is as powerful - delivering cutting edge VCM effects, tons of EQ, etc. Certainly there is no AUDIO/MIDI interface with the capabilities of the MX. And definitely there are no co-processors, that feature their own audio/MIDI interface, along with 128 notes of polyphony!!! Are you kidding me! If you are using a typical musician computer it is not the most powerful one on the market, perhaps you sequence with an iPAD… well, rather than use that computer as your synth, recorder, effect processor and settle for whatever built-in interface capabilities it has, why not take some of the important burden off of the computer. Like a proven sound set (ripped from the innards of the Motif-series), why not have hardware effect processing and EQ power, as well. Let the computer/iPAD concentrate on organizing your recorded tracks and organizing your data files (stuff it was built to do). It is a matter or recognizing it is not a HARDWARE or SOFTWARE issue, the MX is hardware designed to work in conjunction with software - it is even a control surface and remote control device for your DAW and any VST soft synths you are running!!! You you kidding me! And its price point screams - if you are not making music at home in your home studio, you have very little excuse NOW, not to get involved. We are expecting a lot more musicians (even beyond traditional keyboard players to get involved)… If you haven’t seen the MOBILE MUSIC SEQUENCER yet, think about this… here is an app that runs on mobile devices… that utilizes some familiar Yamaha sequencing tools… The Phrase Factory from the Motif-series… where you can take Phrase content (drum grooves, keyboard parts, guitar riffs, bass lines, etc., etc., etc) and you can rework their timing by using the powerful Real Time Loop Remix function. Not only is it fun to play with when you are away from your home studio, music you create there can be exported in Motif XS, Motif XF, MOX, MOXF, MX, S90XS/S70XS or SMF format!!! This means it will select appropriate sounds on your keyboard when you return home!!! There is no better music bargain, period! |
castorex
Total Posts: 18
Joined 09-02-2013 status: Regular |
Don’t spend too much time with yamaha vendor arguments or turning around the problem. You can simply say Yamaha uses a fast, reliable and expensive NOR-Flash Memory as main storage component: that’s a solid objective and technical argument to justify waveforms subset. And again, I am happy with my MX49… my only regret is the lack of compatibility with the motif models… I cannot play directly 80’s title with the pop80 bank/performance!!! but it will be a good exercise for me to program manually the MX for this purpose. For the joke, even the parameter documentation for MX49 (in the yamaha download section) is a general doc for Motif models… this doc is a badly pruned version of the XS version. |
anotherscott
Total Posts: 653
Joined 06-30-2010 status: Guru |
The only Melas tool that works offline is the Wave Editor. The Chicken Systems Motif Creator might do what you want.
That is what is used on the flash cards for the Motif XF and MOXF. I don’t think that’s what’s used in the MX, because the point of the NOR flash is its ability to be rewritten, which is not a feature of the MX. So the MX probably uses custom ROMs. |