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MUSIC PRODUCTION SYNTHESIZER For details please contact: http://www.yamaha.com/ English This document is printed on chlorine free (ECF) paper. Printed in Japan Inspiration comes in a Flash. A single musical motif can evolve to become a magnificent orchestration. The Yamaha MOTIF, an incredibly effective tool for musical creation, has evolved to offer greater expressiveness and functionality. Presenting the next generation MOTIF XF, with the power to inspire boundless creativity. Soon after the original MOTIF was released in 2001 it was recognized as the best sounding, top selling and most requested music workstation on the market. Over time, it has continued to evolve and improve its expressiveness and functionality. At the same time, the online community of end users, sound programmers, software developers and product support specialists at www.motifator.com expanded into a vibrant online music production community. The MOTIF breathes new life into live performances with its expressive sounds and intuitive control. Contents In music creation, the MOTIF not only offers its own music creation capabilities, it also offers a system for integrating Play and Perform 3 10th Anniversary of MOTIF 13 those capabilities with a variety of software applications. And Create and Produce 5 Applicaion for Smart Device 15 now, the next generation “XF” builds on the decade long Customize and Make It Your Own 7 Sample Library of Chick Corea 16 heritage of MOTIF, and with Flash memory expansion, provides Connect and Expand with New Possibilities 9 MOTIF Lineup & Accessories 17 groundbreaking capabilities that will set a new standard for Cubase AI5 10 Specifications 18 keyboard workstations for years to come. Panel Control & Terminals 11 1 2 MUSIC PRODUCTION SYNTHESIZER A high-quality collection of Voices, including powerful piano Voices High-quality keyboards that enable Sound engine that increases the Category Search feature that provides Play and Perform provided from an enormous 741 MB high-level performance expressiveness of instrument sounds instant access to the sound you want 01 The Best Sounds Just Got Better of Waveforms The MOTIF XF boasts The MOTIF XF6 and XF7 use high-quality FSX Keyboards The tone generator that the MOTIF XF has inherited from You can use the Category Search feature to quickly and a rich collection of with 61 and 76 keys, respectively. The MOTIF XF8 uses the MOTIF XS makes an 8-Element-per-Voice structure easily select the Voices or Performances from the MOTIF instrument Voices a BH (Balanced Hammer) Keyboard with 88 keys. The possible. Combined with Yamaha’s XA (Expanded XF’s massive arsenal of sounds. All the Voices in the that includes FSX Keyboard uses a newly-developed mechanism to Articulation), this 8-Element structure allows you to MOTIF are categorized by instruments and even have sub pianos, EPs, strings, provide a smooth touch that is both comfortable to play achieve stunningly accurate acoustic instruments including categories. So it’s easy to select Category Search, choose wind instruments, and responsive to your touch. It’s easy to play fast passages, expressive articulations that up until now have been the category strings, orchestral sounds, including glissandos and trills. It is also worth mentioning difficult to re-create in electronic instruments. For example, the sub-category guitars, basses, and that the keys are very quiet. you can re-create the natural legato of wind instruments, ensemble and then Voice Play (Main) drums, as well as The BH Keyboard is filled with the know-how and the key release noises of pianos and other instruments, see all the ensemble a wide variety of technology that Yamaha has developed producing full guitar slides and harmonics, and the many different string Voices in your vintage and modern synth sounds. Of special note are concert grand pianos and stage pianos. To make a keyboard articulations for string instruments (spicato, tremolo and system. Even third the detailed digital re-creations of two Yamaha grand with a piano touch that can still work comfortably with any pizzicato, etc.). The AF1 and AF2 buttons on the front panel party libraries are pianos (a 9’ CFIII and a 7’ S6) that only an acoustic piano Voice, we took a Graded Hammer Keyboard, which is a make it easy to control Voices with multiple articulations. categorized using manufacturer could achieve. The reproduction in minute popular keyboard for electronic pianos, and adjusted it for For synthesizer sounds, the 18 different filter types, this elegant database Category Search (Voice mode) detail of even very subtle nuances results in exquisitely use with a synthesizer: we balanced the keys to the same advanced 6-stage pitch, filter and amplitude envelopes, system. Category crafted piano Voices that will satisfy even the most weight and made adjustments so that the synthesizer can the unique Wave Cycle feature and assignable modulation Search is available demanding players. support aftertouch and other features. While pursuing the Control Sets make the MOTIF capable of reproducing any wherever you want to select a Voice, so when you are New Waveforms have been added to the MOTIF XF, which real touch of a grand piano, we also provide a touch that is synth sound from vintage to modern.The tone generator looking for just the right sound in a Song, access Category now contains a huge total of 741 MB of Waveforms. exceptionally suited to the performance of a multitude of also supports half damper pedaling through the use of the Search and easily browse for that perfect fit for your mix. Starting with the S6 piano, the 136 newly-added Voices synthesizer sounds. separately sold FC3 foot pedal. Using half damper pedaling In Performance Mode, Performances are sorted by musical include keyboard sounds such as those of clavinets with the damper resonance effect, you can achieve an genre, so you can quickly select the type of Performance and organs as well as a wide range of new sounds from even more realistic and richer piano sound that simulates that matches your moment of inspiration. The Favorites orchestral to hip-hop. the sound board of a grand piano and responds naturally to feature even lets you tag your favorites Voices and This huge internal wave sophisticated piano pedaling techniques. Performances so they are even easier to access. memory ensures that the MOTIF XF is the best sounding and most versatile keyboard workstation right 88 keys BH (Balanced Hammer) Keyboard out of the box. Weighted keyboard action that matches for playing both piano and synth sound. 8-elemet Structure Voice Play (Controller) Category Search Button 3 4 MUSIC PRODUCTION SYNTHESIZER Rich arpeggiator with over 7,000 of these effect units at circuit level right down to the component transistors and resistors. With the MOTIF XF, patterns that expands the breadth of the high-quality effects found in our industry standard Create and Produce sound expression digital recording consoles are at your fingertips. Also, the MOTIF XF is equipped with vocoder effects. By Get Instant Inspiration & Lightning Fast Music Production Tools connecting a microphone to the MOTIF’s A/D input 02 You can use the arpeggiator to perform unique instrument terminal, you can apply effects to your voice or use phrases. By layering parts, you can give form to your Performance Play (Main) Performance Play (Arpeggiater) your own voice to create harmonies. The MOTIF XF also composition ideas quickly. includes the award-winning “REV-X” reverb, the same The MOTIF XF excels in both arpeggio quantity and professionally renowned reverb found in the SPX2000. quality. In addition to typical arpeggio patterns, the music quickly by using MOTIF XF also features simulations of acoustic instrument the arpeggiator on the performances through the combination of arpeggios different Voices. The and the keyboard MegaVoices and arpeggios in which MOTIF XF interactive synthesizer parameters, such as panning and filtering, are real time arpeggio engine modulated in time MIDI clock. The MOTIF XF adds to the lets you run 4 different MOTIF XS’s extensive library of arps and has an additional arps simultaneously and Performance Record 1,248 synthesizer, drum, percussion, and ending switch between 5 different arpeggios, for a total of 7,881 types of arpeggios. variations of arpeggio patterns in real time. It’s incredibly musically interactive VCM EQUALIZER 501 VCM COMPRESSOR and many arps include chordal intelligence so they create different phrases depending on what chords are played on the keyboard. Thanks to the Direct Performance Recording feature, which enables you to record Performances in real time to songs and patterns, you can quickly capture your song ideas sparked by the MOTIF Performances to a song or pattern for further editing and refining. Arpeggio Main Arpeggio Other VCM FLANGER VCM PEDAL WAH VCM effects that reproduce the Performance Mode that makes the unique, natural, warm sounds of instant expression of your ideas possible vintage instruments VCM PHASER VCM AUTO WAH In Performance Mode, you can layer up to 4 Voices, and Yamaha’s proprietary VCM (Virtual Circuitry Modeling) you can split the keyboard into 4 Zones with different technology simulates the effects of vintage EQs, key ranges and velocity windows. Also, you can create compressors, and phasers by modeling the ‘texture’ 5 6 MUSIC PRODUCTION SYNTHESIZER Up to 2 GB of additional content inside the MOTIF XF. Because the MOTIF XF features 128 Improved sampling with 128 MB of MB of onboard sampling RAM, you’re able to take advantage Integrated Sampling Sequencer available through Flash Memory of these powerful features right away without the need to internal SDRAM With the Integrated Sampling Sequencer, you can integrate audio (sampled) data and MIDI data seamlessly. WAV/AIFF loading is also supported. Expansion Modules purchase additional memory. The MOTIF XF sequencer also You can use the time slice feature to slice the sampled sounds that you load and control them in the same way that you would control MIDI data.