Arrrgghhh!! this is killing me!

I have had my Motif XF6 on pre order for about 3 weeks already and they still aren't due to arrive in Australia until 12th October. it will still take a couple of days after before i can get mine delivered!

as far as the XF goes with SA and SA2 voices - most of them are included in the XF. they are just not triggered the same way as the Tyros does. I have had numerous conversations on the Motifator forum with the Yamaha moderators there about this and they say that the reason they are not as "automatic" on the Motif Line is because Yamaha re giving us the power to change and control them as we wish.

On the Tyros if you play the SA electric or acoustic guitars you hear fret slides every 2 seconds and although its a "cool" thing, its far from realistic.

the one thing that does bother me is when you play and SA voice on the tyros the voice can behave differently whether you play in legato mode or not. this feature is not in the Motif Line. you can switch the voice to Legato mode but it will remain that way only until you switch it off...

each SA voice whether its a Tyros or a Motif is made up of about 8 elements (WAV Samples) that are all triggered off at different velocities and keyboard actions. on the Tyros line they are completely un editable whereas on the on the Motif (just like every voice) you can edit each individual element that make up the voice. you can change the velocity range for when they are triggered, you can change the actual sample entirely.

I hope this helps clear some confusion.

Nick