Yamaha montage review8/14/2023 The Bösendorfer Grand Piano is available as part of the MONTAGE sound library. Yes, the MONTAGE6 even excels at the thing you forgot keyboards were originally supposed to do: sound like pianos (and as much as we have a soft spot for the old DX7, it was never our fave acoustic or electric piano replacement). We see this as the future go-to for EDM producers, hip-hop producers, heck, even classically-trained pianists who want a fully-featured keyboard for the road that sounds like their favorite grand piano. What kept us coming back, really, was the sound-shaping capabilities afforded by all the parameter-tweaking options any knob-head will be drooling over. If you’re shelling out 3 grand for a synth, everything better be perfect. The aftertouch works like a champ for our favorite vibrato effects, the pitch and mod wheels are ultra-smooth, the screen is touch sensitive, bright and colorful (you know us, we HATE menu-driven systems but grew to love the MONTAGE interface, so that should tell you something). Seriously.Įverything about the MONTAGE6 is top-shelf. ![]() You’ll be up all night exploring this feature. ![]() It’s really far-out stuff, and expands upon the basic modulation parameters you might be used to, like simple LFOs that have one or two basic modulation sources. What’s this do? Well, take a vocal track, for example, or some percussion or guitar, and use that audio to control parameters to shape the sound. The idea here is that you can use audio coming into the board as a mod source. Worth mentioning, as well, is the really cool envelope follower. You can even control it with a foot controller like the FC7, so you can easily go from subtle shifts in sound modulation to ridiculous, over-the-top severity in a matter of seconds. We’re not gonna lie sometimes we weren’t really sure what we were adjusting at the macro-level, only that this magic knob made everything sound amazing with a single sweep. What it does is control multiple parameters at once, so you’re modulating in an optimized way with the turn of one simple-to-use control. Seriously, this thing is powerful, and if you felt a little intimated (like us), try using the Super Knob first. ![]() What we loved, off the bat, was the Super Knob. ![]() At the heart of the beast is the motion control matrix, which we saw demo’d at NAMM and really came to fully understand (and appreciate) after a few weeks testing the MONTAGE in our studio and office. The MONTAGE6 is really a mixture of the best of both the DX and MOTIF series (yeah, we never really figured out FM synthesis, either, but don’t let that stop you from giving this board serious consideration if you’re looking for a top-of-the-line synth monster). We recently had the opportunity to play with the 61-key synthesizer, the new flagship from Yamaha, and we were both thoroughly overwhelmed with the amount of things this piece of machinery can do, and surprised at its relative ease of use. If you’re serious about audio production and synthesis, then no doubt the new MONTAGE6 from Yamaha has come up in your research. We recently got our hands on a new Yamaha MONTAGE6 61-Key Synthesizer for review - arguably the most intense, feature-packed synth we’ve ever had the pleasure to test out.
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