Ok Terry, Now I see what you meant. I guess it shouldn't have to be this way, but this is a prime example of why I use the external sequencer more often than not, and simply set up my voices from there ( patch / bank changes ) . Unfortunately, that doesn't help at all when you want to use the pattern sequencer does it ? Nope..
I find it to be easier and quicker for me to just turn everything into an arp anyway, so I'm not using the pattern sequencer for anyhting other than a place to record midi data that becomes a user arp. No pattern chaining for me..


I don't wanna try to turn this into the Motifator 2 forum, so I'm gonna refrain from too many of my own gripes, but I will throw two back out there. The plug in boards default to "on" in the sequencer. This is very annoying because channels 1 and 2 ( I have 2 plug ins ) play both the plug in and internal voice data at the same time. Of course I can change it but it's still an extra step. Gripe 2.. the key feel... but I knew this going in and was planning on getting a seperate controller rather than the es 7.

New Yorker.. It seems like it has always been this way with yamaha, and done on purpose too. The company itself does seem to gop to great lengths to sperate it's arranger users from it's workstation users. Unfortunately ofr me, though Yamaha has ticked me off more than a few times, I can't find a workstation that I think sounds better than the Motif, otherwise I would have bought it.

AJ