I have the Motif. It has 84 mb of wav rom and includes some outstanding sounds. I never liked Yamaha sounds before in the way I like them on the "Mo". Having said that, there are still quite a few sounds that aren't realistic. So what's so "different" about this supposed new technology ?call me skeptical, but I too have seen many wonderful boasts from Yamaha in the past ( and all of the other companies also to be fair ).

You can add more rom..that's great on the sound / sample end of it, but how that does that improve emulating the dynamics of certain expressive instruments with keyboard based controllers ? Has someone at Yamaha figured out or invented new ways to set synth parameters up to add expression ?

Yep Cliff, I understand... even in working more with soundfonts than samples ( I do have and use giga too though ), I've come across soundfonts and sample libraries for ONE piano voice that would barely fit into the Motif if I had the optional 64 mb SIMMs in it. I never bothered because I find it so much easier to load samples into software, but the point is.. 96 mb seems like alot ( and is compared to the average wav rom tables of the current synths, but it doesn't necessarily translate into more expressive sounding instruments IMHO, nor will it necessarily compete on a level playing field with some of the software based sampler.

[This message has been edited by Bluezplayer (edited 07-04-2002).]