I've been a proud owner of the Yamaha Motif ES7 since 2004. It was a great advancement over the original Motif in 2001. Motif was the answer to Korg's Triton. Twelve years later, my Motif ES does the same job it was built to do. I use it every Sunday for Contemporary Christian backing tracks and the lead piano/keyboard sound.

I had a Motif XF6 from 2011 to last week (2016.) I sold it in anticipation of the new keyboard. New sounds always helped to make some nice arrangements. But, I wasn't using it as much as the ES. 8 elements per voice ate up the polyphony.

Now, on the dawn of NAMM 2016, I sit here wondering what's my next creative tool.

Stick with my 13 year old Motif ES (128 Poly) w/PLG-150 PF (64 Poly)

Utilize my PSR-S970 as my sequencing solution

Bite the bullet and get a MacBookPro with NI Komplete and Machine

Korg Kronos 2? Go back to my Korg roots...
M1 to O1/Wfd to Triton to Triton Studio

Is it worth $3000 for a new Montage as a advanced Motif?!? Time will tell!!

Happy NAMM to all on SZ!!