Yamaha MODX8 88-Key Synthesizer Workstation

Description

YAMAHA MODX8 Keyboard Features:

The YAMAHA MODX8 Keyboard has the same sound engines as the MONTAGE, and many of the same features, barely scaled down in places, and often times not scaled back at all! While the feature set is discussed in detail in our previous MONTAGE review, a quick list of MODX features includes:

• FM-X engine: Eight operators, 88 algorithms, 64 voice polyphony (MONTAGE offers 128 voices)
• AWM2 engine: 128 voice polyphony
• Sixteen-part multi timbral
• User wave memory: 1 GB (MONTAGE has 1.75 GB)
• Seamless Sound Transition technology: limited to four voices (MONTAGE has eight)
• Four MIDI sliders, four rotary encoders (MONTAGE has eight of both, with LED markers)
• Presets: 5.67 GB of wave data
• 18 Filter types
• Mod wheel and pitch bend above the keyboard (MONTAGE has them to the left of the keyboard)
• Ability to send ten channels and return four audio channels over USB
• A/D input that can process external audio
• 27 simultaneous effects
• Performance recorder allows up to 16 tracks, 130,00 notes (but this is not a workstation)
• Eight simultaneous arpeggios with 10,239 preset types.