Well what do ya' know. I see Yamaha kept the Motif name after all.

Black is back and a refreshing change I might add. No word on the price but I will take a guess and say a couple to three hundred more than a comparable XS. As an example the current Motif XS7 is $3,199 (I know.. ridiculous huh?) and so with the new XF7 roughly priced around $3,499 ( I know.. ridiculous huh?) There are additional sounds plus over a thousand new waveforms plus a new user interface that might actually prove hands down better than the current XS user interface which does have a very high learning curve I must say.

I'm sure many Yammie fans will upgrade their existing Motif XS because Yammie is dangling the carrot stick in front of them and the incremental updates on their new Motif XF will probably prove sufficient to entice many of them to bite the carrot - or is that "bullet". Sorry, I'll pass though. After listening to the demos they really didn't inspire me a whole lot although the strings sounded pretty good. The Sax kinda sucked though and I'm surprised Yammie would feature that particular Sax on this their groundbreaking demo introduction for the new XF line.

If I didn't already have an excellent workstation i.e. my Fantom G7 I would probably think very seriously about getting the new Motif XF. The XF7 is only a couple pounds heavier than my Fantom G7 so that's not really an issue. If Yamaha happens to list the XF7 at $3,500.00 it would be $1,000.00 MORE than what I paid for my Fantom G7 though. Uh... I don't think so. Again though, if I didn't already have a great workstation then the new Motif XF would surely be something to consider in my opinion.

All the best,
Mike