Files & Software

Most of these files are also available as part of the Motif Survival Content CD.


Motif Rack Files

Download Sonar/Cakewalk .ins instrument definition for the Motif Rack

Download an Emagic Logic .lso file for the Motif Rack

Download a Cubase Script file for the Motif Rack


Link to patch names for using Pro Tools with Motif


Download Cubase script file patch list
or
Download Nate's organized patch list

Thanks Nate!

*Using W2K or XP?
Put your script in the following directory: X:Documents and SettingsadminApplication DataSteinbergCubase SXScriptsPatchnames. (Substitute X for the drive letter containing your Docs and Settings. It's a hidden folder)
Go to: (In Windows) Explorer, menu Tools, FolderOptions, tab View, and select Files and Folders, Hidden Files and Folders, and select Show Hidden files and folders. Your Application Data should show up now.


Download Motif Operating System Version 1.7
or
Get the updated Operating System shipped pre-loaded on a 32MB SmartMedia card

Download Motif patch list for FreeMIDI 

Installation Instructions:

Download and unstuff the patch list for the MOTIF.

Put the “MOTIF 6/7/8” document in your Yamaha default names folder, located in
the FreeMIDI folder, inside of your system folder. (Make sure that the name of the file is exactly as it appears above.)

System Folder / FreeMIDI folder / Default Names folder / Yamaha folder

Also copy and paste the string of information below into your FreeMIDI
Devices document in the text where the Yamaha devices are listed in the document. Be sure to place it in alphabetically. This document is also located in the FreeMIDI folder, inside of your system folder.

System Folder / FreeMIDI Folder / FreeMIDI Devices 

  1. Copy the line below exactly
  2. Open the devices document located in the FreeMIDI folder
  3. Scroll down in the text of the devices document to the Yamaha list of devices
Insert the copied line into the list in the proper location alphabetically

:MOTIF 6/7/8 #2500"1,7,8,9"{1-16;1}

Download the information loaded into Motif display models
This includes complete pattern files for Gangsta and SmoothR&B and tweaks to the performance bank and demo songs.


Download Presets
To make it easier to tweak internal preset sounds without having to copy one preset into User and then get the whole user bank into the editor, download the .zip below. It includes presets 1,2,3, and GM banks as both complete All Voice User Banks, and as Voice Editor files.


Download an .lso file or instrument object for Logic


Download Cakewalk file
How to install the Motif CAKEWALK instrument definition:
Download .pdf instructions

1. Place .ins file in your main cakewalk directory (you will see other .ins files there).
2. After opening Cakewalk, double click on the "Port", "Chn", "Bank" or, "Patch" sections of a selected track, in the [TRACK] display.
3. "Click" on [INSTRUMENTS].
4. "Click" on [DEFINE].
5. "Click" [IMPORT] and go to the Cakewalk directory.
6. Select the .ins file (it should be in the list in the left window) and then "Click" on [OPEN]. Select the .ins file by highlighting it and click [OK].
7. After the file has been imported "click" on [CLOSE].
8. Select which PORT or PORTS you wish the new definition to define in the left window (if the S80 is your only MIDI device then select them all). Select the definition you wish to use in the right window.
9."Click"[OK].
10. Track Properties should now allow you to access the Bank and Patch numbers of the instrument definition you have imported.