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davlippo7
Total Posts: 252
Joined 10-06-2010 status: Enthusiast |
I can’t listen from my location but I counted 29 camera switches to/from the bass player in the first 2:00 minutes. This will translate to 80 camera switches in the full 5.50 minutes. Multiply that out by the 5 person ensemble and you get something like 400 camera switches. My head is now hurting. I hope it sounds good. |
Jote
Total Posts: 1549
Joined 07-29-2002 status: Guru |
Don’t expect anything Montage-specific. It’s mostly the most boring application of a synth: a piano sample player. |
Melodialworks
Total Posts: 157
Joined 06-13-2009 status: Pro |
Wow, you’re not kidding about the constant camera changes in that video. I lasted watching it for an uncomfortable 30 seconds. |
davlippo7
Total Posts: 252
Joined 10-06-2010 status: Enthusiast |
Some new here, I think the last (3) perhaps. Posted 2/29. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJB88q4Tcrw&list=PLKw0bc1wG1ac2S17988UbweY2peLcDF9O |
Jote
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Joined 07-29-2002 status: Guru |
Thanks for those. Most of them are new. Nothing super-impressive though. |
muziksculp
Total Posts: 688
Joined 08-13-2002 status: Guru |
Hi, Well… So far non of these Montage demos have impressed me. Not sure what to make of it. I’m still undecided if it is worth buying a Montage once it begins shipping. Although I still think that the best way to evaluate it is to play it in person, and start tweaking it, and see if it gels with my taste. I have the Motif XF7, and have decided not to sell it, even if I decided to get the Montage. Actually, I would like to hear some demo songs, in various genres made with the Montage, sequenced and mixed on a DAW, but all sounds, effects, ..etc. are Montage. That would offer another way to evaluate the Montage. Rather than just hearing one performance at a time. I also like to hear more of the Drum Kits it offers.
Cheers,
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davlippo7
Total Posts: 252
Joined 10-06-2010 status: Enthusiast |
Yes, not even the slightest peep concerning new drum kits. From this massive wave ROM increase all of the AWM2 demos combined have not shown us 50 of the 1,900 performances (not sure the percentage of FMX vs AWM2). I hope we haven’t heard the best of the AWM2 thus far and most of it has been very repetitive. Possibly the full wave ROM has not been fully released in these demo models so no one is hearing it yet. |
muziksculp
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Joined 08-13-2002 status: Guru |
I forgot to mention the lack of focus on the new FMX Engine of the Montage. You would expect the FMX Engine to get a lot of focus, and attention, rather than the Super-Knob, and the new Motion-Seq. features. But for some reason, the FMX has not been a big center of attention feature in the Yamaha Montage Intro/Promo Events, and videos. Hopefully, this won’t be the case for too long, YAMAHA needs to bump up the excitement, and fun factor as far as sound design, and sonic expression capabilities of the FMX engine. Actually, the FMX engine is the most exciting part of the Montage for me. Hope to hear, and learn much more about the FMX feature of the Montage in the next few months.
Cheers,
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davlippo7
Total Posts: 252
Joined 10-06-2010 status: Enthusiast |
Concerning the FMx, the demos are usually presented by musicians and not sound designers. So Yamaha needs some sort of a guru that can do both and Yamaha needs to pay them to present the Montage to that side of the market. Most users are musicians and aren’t going to be programming the FMX engine but I sure hope there’s plenty more “usable/thick/melodic” FMX presets than we’ve witnessed thus far. That piercing, tinny, ringing sound effect stuff is usually just annoying after you’ve heard it twice. |
muziksculp
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Joined 08-13-2002 status: Guru |
Hearing a healthy selection of FMX based Pads, Basses, Leads, Brassy Sounds, Fluty Sounds, Plucky-Guitar Type Sounds, Percussive Sounds, Ambiences, Special Effects, Pianos, Vocal Type Sounds...., ..etc. Would be so cool and interesting. |
Faldin
Total Posts: 41
Joined 09-10-2015 status: Regular |
The actual 8-op 88 algo FM engine of Montage is not new, it has been taken from the FS1R module (from around 1999, so it is over 16 years old). Whats new is the combination of the FM engine with the “Motion Control engine”. As Bad Mister wrote on yamahasynth.com, “FM + Motion Control = FM-X”. A combination which makes sense IMO, because dynamics is where FM shines - so the ability to modulate the operators via Motion Control, Superknob, etc. could produce some interesting stuff. |
Jote
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Joined 07-29-2002 status: Guru |
Guys, once again: let’s try to limit this thread to links only/mostly. Plenty of other Montage threads on this forum. |
davlippo7
Total Posts: 252
Joined 10-06-2010 status: Enthusiast |
Montage live with real bad audio and some senior citizen running wild on base with moves like Bill Cosby. Wait, was that Gene Simmons on the Montage with the tongue and all? Jazz with Gene on Jean wearing jeans. I can just make out that blinking super knob. Holy crap, now that tune is stuck in my head. Some really weird scary movie sound coming at the end from Montage. What was that!!!???? Yamaha, seriously, this is what we have resorted to watching? |
davlippo7
Total Posts: 252
Joined 10-06-2010 status: Enthusiast |
Not new but this demo shows some unique abilities of the Montage.
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davlippo7
Total Posts: 252
Joined 10-06-2010 status: Enthusiast |
Another “not new” demo but good for the variety of options and functions. This is a good sound animation and control presentation. |