Wonder if Bert Smorenburg will be demonstrating the montage for yamaha?

Bert is overly excited... But does a fun demo with lots of "easy for the average musician" lingo!

I am very excited for the demo videos!

Here's another teaser from Yamaha Corporation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mcr84bE95E

And the first private-initiative Facebook pages are popping up:
https://www.facebook.com/yamahamontage/?fref=ts

Montage vs Kronos ?

Ask me again when the question about the sequencer and the actual size of free library storage is clear.
Anyway, both Korg and Yamaha would only GET ME AS A BUYER IF THEY RELEASED A MODULE.

get a top of the line masterkeyboard, amd then montage, kronos, tyros, motif, integra, v-synth, norld lead4 rack all setup behind that keyboard easilly in reach...

Or just one workstation to do it all?

I know what i would choose... I tried the many modules track some time ago, but have decided to keep some of the insurance money in my pocket and go for 2 keyboards... One with 88 piano acttion and one with 76 key synth action.... Quite happy with that... Not even using my software setup much.....


However, i think if you want to go the software way, the new montage might be the perfect choice... With Cubase, V-arranger, biabox and Karma running on a windows tablet with the montage as audio device... Anyway, i don think you want to connect more then 2 (max 3) physical devices... To bad that the Montage does not have 16 programmable drumpads to the left side...

Makes me wonder if you can set up those microsoft service laptops in such a way that you can controll several apps over midi at the same time

Well, I wouldn't like to carry your Tyros 5 and Kronos to a gig. So mostly I take my MoXF, or maybe in future rather the BK-9 depending on the occasion, and it's easy to additionally put the Integra into the equipment suitcase. But two full-size keyboards, no thank you.
If the Montage alone could replace everything, it would be great, but that's obviously not the case (and it wasn't to be expected). If it even really has no internal sequencer, as people in other forums seems to be convinced of meanwhile, I couldn't even use it like my MoXF, having a pre-recorded solo trumpet play together with my live strings/harpsichord part, just to take one example. And it's no arranger of course.
That's why I love module versions...

Here's a link from someone on the Motifator.com page.

http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?site:http://usa.yamaha.com&d=54046408837172896&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=UsP4S3v7rkldijUKwJHw8f8GvFfzlcu1#tab=feature

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