Sudclaviers has 3 videos of the montage in French

Sequencer is included!
Very heavy instrument: 15kg for 61 key Version
Specs:
http://www.musiker-board.de/threads/yamaha-montage.630868/page-13#post-7775747

Its Yamaha.. But then, build quallity seems top knotch

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!!

[video:youtube]https://youtu.be/bgv5scoXcv8[/video]

there you go

Here is Bert....

Official website online now:
http://usa.yamaha.com/products/music-production/synthesizers/montage/

Correction: The Montage apparently has NO FULL SEQUENCER, but a Performance Recorder, i.e. a sequencer without editing functions.

The Montage is definitely not a workstation like the Motif.
Quote from the FAQ (in bad English...):

"MONTAGE has Sampling function?
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No. But MONTAGE can load wav file.

MONTAGE has Fully-functional Sequencer?
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No. MONTAGE just has the simple sequencer "Performance Recorder". It does not have edit function."

I just discovered something that could be shocking: There is just one mode left, "Performance mode". According to the FAQ, it seems that the old Motif voices (which had up to 8 elements) are now turned into performances. This would dramatically reduce the functionality of the performance with respect to the number of different sounds. - I'm trying to figure out more about it.