I was at Namm on friday and spent some time with the Yamaha MOX8 I am looking for a light weight stage Piano /synth with overall good sounds to comp my Tyros 4 on stage and for Worship services ect I was Impressed by this unit sounds very good I watched you tube stuff and it look to offer good Interface to computer ect , does anybody have one here I would like to here from sombody who have used this unit.

my Big concern it it is 64 note poly I like to use layers and 64 note poly could present a problem please share you advice and experence on this unit thanks.

Ians your man!

I almost bought one but ended up buying the Motif XF. The keybed and overall construction was so much better on the XF. Also the MOX Series has the sound engine and Digital Converters from the Motif XS Series. I found that the XF had cleaner highs and deeper lows due to improvements to the A/D and D/A converters. So for all those reasons I went with the XF. However if I could not afford the XF I would have gotten the MOX. It is an excellent value and essentially the same exact sound as a Motif XS. So if you are looking for a light weight 88 key synth in that price range you will not find a better quality product.

Joe

Thanks guys I am looking for light weight xf 8 is much heavier just looking for good sound and good price it seem to be that it the 64 voice thing gets me worried , I have been told they allocated the voices well and prob wont be a prob but I owned a RD700gx and had major polifiney problems I currently have PX3 and it good but I need better organ and synth sounds MOX8 seem to be closr to my needs , I was looking at 3xpro76 but nobody has one in my area and the price crazy !!! and Tyros 4 it doing it job for me so a light weight 88 key will be nice to add to Tyros 4 on stage.

Have you tried NORD units yet?

NORD

thanks that is a great unit I spen a few min in there booth at namm but it was busy I played the new Piano it sounded ok the nord stage 2 is loke a space ship but for organ it the best the only problem I use piano and pad , piano and strings and different combis leads ect and nord is spec to piano and organ .

KRONOS

I haven't played the new MOX8 yet.., but I used to own the MO8. When I had the MO8, one of my biggest gripes was the limited poly. My personal opinion of it was that it was nothing more than an ES based sound engine "choking" on half the poly.

It wasn't too much of an issue for real time playing. However, once you start sequencing it doesn't take long to blow through 64 notes these days. When you started adding other elements into playing such as using arps, using a sustain pedal, ect., the limited 64 note poly really started to show its ugly side.

I'm very surprised that the new MOX series is once again., "choked out" on half the poly. Especially considering that some of those much larger patches (some I assume up to 8 elements) are within the sound set. Of course there are some that aren't running all 8 elements at once, and have many levels of velocity switching.., but I imagine some of those patches can be real big poly eaters in a multi-timbral set up.

I suggest hitting up users on YouTube regarding the pros and cons. You'd be surprised how much info you can get from owners on the Tube. I'd also suggest looking at this model too.

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/M50-88/

I was told MO8 WAS 32 voice poly , I have not checked the spec and also told the there voice allocation help the poly but 64 is 64 so I will need to go play again when I played at Namm I did not notice any problem be I also asumed is was 128 I dont understand in today tech there is a unit with 64 voice poly , I wont be sequencing with it , mostly for live playing and Recording.