All user reviews for the Yamaha MOTIF ES6

a sacred tools !! the must see descriptifa ports for plug it can add 1 DX7 1 LV1 a harmonizer card !!

USE

it must yamaha manual! the screen is cluttered with many pages has information turns rmais effects is easily programmed, it takes time to tame this worstation a real bemmol complicated sampling has manage what horror ... ....... the Pattern mode is too awesome to mount a piece quickly intregrations plug cards in a voice or perf is easily the arpeggiator covers music style ......... .dropoff window

SOUNDS

wow! terrible! the piano sounds, elec piano, acoustic elec guitars, bass, strings, drum kits !!! .......... nothing to throw short !!

NOTICE GLOBAL

a keyboard that can be enough to be alone !! exellent machine that is today price !! the flat-visual sampling the part that is very complicated to manage, but after a bomb was alone

SEE SPECIFICATIONS FOR THE SITE WILL BE COMPLETE PLUS YAMAHA. BUT KNOW THAT EVEN HAVE ANY TECHNOLOGY EXCEPTIONAL AND I WANT GOOD COURAGE TO ITS
Conccurents.

USE

CONFIGURATION IS A PICTURE OF THE YAMAHA INNOVATRICE.JE HAS RECENTLY
I DEFINITELY GOING BACK ON THIS MANUAL SUJET.LE ME SEEMS CLEAR BUT I ONLY FOLLOWING ME SEEMS TO START WELL DONE CA NEVERTHELESS.


SONORITS

VOILA! This IS WHY I WANTED TO GIVE ABSOLUTELY MY OPINION I WILL EXPLAIN?
I HAVE STARTED WITH DX7 AND ROLAND W30 SINCE I HAVE TESTED DOZENS OF SYNTHES
I HAVE PUT IN ARRANGERS TYPE SY 85 E09 GW7 TYROS PSR BRIEF HISTORY OF EXCEPT KORG
TASTE I HEARD REALISTIC SOUNDS OR NO GOOD TO POOR.
THIS SITE OFTEN HELP ME TO MY CHOICE NOTHING WORTH IT ME USERS
THIS SEEMS TO HAVE MY OPINION.
I TEST SO THIS YAMAHA MOTIF ES6 AND THIS IS THE REVELATION AFTER ALL BE A LOT disappointments REASONS FOR THE KEYBOARD sonoritées NOTHING USED CAR
800 IF YOU HAVE SONS ARE ACCEPTABLE 10% I CURRENTLY HAVE ROLAND JV 2080
2500 WITH PATCHES LOOP EXPANSION CARDS 8 FULL OPTIONS AS THEY SAY BEN
SS6 FRANCHEMENT AFTER ALL I RESELLS.
IT IS THE COUNCIL Verily I EXEPTIONNEL EXELENT NOTHING TO DISCARD THE KEYBOARD IS
SEMI TRUCK AND ANSWERS IMMEDIATELY BUCKLES ARE NOT THE DEMONSTRATION
AS THE TYROS CA CA SONNE PRO AND GIVES BOSSER DESIRE AND IS FUN !!!!
SOUNDS ARE AN AMAZING REALISM AWAY FROM MEGA VOICES OR OTHERWISE.
PATERNS ARE TO FALL SHORT WHAT I HATE ANYTHING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


NOTICE GLOBAL

As I said I USED SINCE THE LITTLE SO I ALSO GOING BACK ON THIS SUBJECT.
PRICE pales SEEN ME THE QUALITY OF WHAT I HAVE TESTED OR HEAR.
I HAVE BOUGHT USED 600 EUROS AND TAKEN OUT LIKE NEW 2300 EUROS I BELIEVE.
This choice I would NOT HESITATE REASON IS SIMPLE I HAVE INVESTED IN 2000 EUROS
IN MACHINES WERE SAYING THAT IS ATOMIC BOMB AND FRO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BUY YOU WILL SEE BYE.

Yamaha workstation, 61 keys, purchased 2 additional sound cards. See product descriptions with lots of details elsewhere.


UTILIZATION

For getting around the keyboard and doing the basic stuff for recording and performing, editing on this level is simple ONCE you've gotten accustomed to it. The manual gets a "C" grade from me. I've found more helpful info at YouTube - thanks for all who have posted on the ES there.

SOUNDS

Great sounds, expressiveness and touch sensitivity are excellent for a non-weighted keyed. Effects are all very good as well, and easy to edit from the top-left side of the unit. Acoustic piano and electric piano programs are among the very best IMHO -- I sold my Rhodes. Electric guitars (esp. Mega-Voice ones) and strings are also killer, as well as its organ programs. BTW, if you really want killer organs, use Performance Mode and program the 4 channels to different organs of your choice, and be able to use your 4 sliders to customize and edit your overall organ output/sound with these 4 sliders, and/or fade between different types of organ programs/sounds in any given song. Motif, hands down, produces the phattest and warmest/richest sounds around -- they kill my Korg Krome, which sounds very thin in comparison. Dynamic range is also excellent. While playing the grand piano, you can really hear the difference when playing FFF vs. ppp.

OVERALL OPINION

The 2 complaints I have about the ES are these: 1) when in Performance Mode and using all 4 voices and their effects, you can easily get some latency during a performance. I've got to experiment a bit to see how to minimize this; it'll likely require me to reduce the no. of effects associated with each of the 4 programs that I load into each Performance. 2) When switching between Performances, you may have to "clear" the volume settings for one or more of your 4 voices in this mode; which, requires you to slide the faders all the way to the top, then bottom (or visa versa). Otherwise, some voices won't be active. This was and remains a little frustrating; having to make sure that I do this little procedure every time I switch between Performances. I've not ever used the sampler, so I have nothing to say about that. There's a YouTube video posted that is a sped-up time lapse video of a guy really digging deep into modifying some sounds in the ES. It is worth checking this out, if only to realize how deep you can dig, and how much of an exercise this is/can be. I've play-tested the XS and XF, but truthfully, neither seems that much better than the ES in terms of overall sound quality. Yes, loading programs into the unit is much faster with these newer versions, but other than that, I've not had enough reason to sell my ES and opt for an XS or XF. Go to YouTube, and a bunch of guys tell you why you should switch/update to an XF, but they're much more expensive than the ES was, and I'm quite happy with my ES.

For the characteristics I leave you to read the reviews and see datasheet

Aesthetically I saw it every time in the studio ... It looked like a war machine! And its design reflects the machine ... it's a real beast. In terms of features it is quite full for a machine of the 2000s.

UTILIZATION

At the use of Motif ES6 for those who start I recommend to help you with tutorials available on fan sites the reason for the record and a real textbook. That said, there leaning a little one can see that in fact the design is very well thought out. The work parterns and sequencing keys is really a over sequencers Korg example. and even if there is no touch screen everything is simplified and accurate especially especially when its built piece by loops.
For memory there has what it takes to work, however it is volatile

Editing sounds and effects requires some adaptation, software for editing pattern on his PC is full ... I advise you to go through it and save it all in the pattern.

SOUNDS

Move to serious things ... sounds:
Love it or dislikes they are of very high quality, varied, drum kits its really not bad. I think all those who have or have had patterns will tell you that the effects are terrible and arpeggios and even when their compositions of samples are blind, there is always a certain harmony and few saturations. One can search by category and sounds there is plenty to do and all styles of music "connected" not to the tea dance with all the respect I have for this discipline. I even recommend the RE-order for all those who are hip hop Rnb for example, a famous scott storch did not use it for anything!
Go if I want to quibble I would say that pianos are not the best but can add an optional card, the only interesting way, can fix it even if I have subsequently bought a digital piano because not means to the Motif ES8.
Finally touch is precise and pleasant ... not like semi-weighted keys that is rotten to the 61 keys now.

OVERALL OPINION

as you can read in the title I made the CON! I actually need to have a digital piano 88 keys piano hit and I sold (oh the crime!), That's for anecdote! In my defense I would say it was a mistake of youth, inexperience.
Since I tested quite worstation, Korg Trinity, Triton, M5O, M3, MOX6 (which is a pattern less) or core KROME, I have not tested the series of Roland G6, 7 which are some rare and expensive yet even Cygnus, GI juno Camelott it's a little short ... all that to say that when we want a first workstation to make good sound, that too in tune ... to have a little experience and perspective there is no reference 36 is looking for a Triton extreme or rather we take a pattern MO, ES, XF ... from 400th can find happiness.

AND IF ONE DAY ... You wake up and want to sell it .. "smack your head" in a story wall that it passes ... and complete the rather with another bike ... and for those who don ' have no place will see the opinions of the MOTIF RACK ES and XF ... well today I save a little to buy a Motif ES6 or an XF ...

PASS ME THE DETAILS ABOUT THE FEATURES.
I DO NOT WORK TO computer music.
SYNTHE IS A LINE IN THE DX7 IS AS GOOD WINE older he
The better. It will probably be in 20 years A SEARCH FOR VERY SYNTHE
ITS EXCELLENT PERFORMANCES ARE incalculable.
AH YES IT IS AND THERE ARE POLYPHONIC EFFECTS, AND ALL STYLES WILL IT WELL.
A FAVORITE FOR BRASS AND GUITARS BUT EVERYTHING IS génialissime.

UTILIZATION

I read somewhere that in 5 years MUSICIAN still discovering new things.
THEN ME IN A FEW WEEKS ............................

SOUNDS

Yeah ALL IS WELL WILL NOT be serious. THE KEYBOARD IS NOT HEAVY SEMI LESTE
But very nice.
The sounds are wonderful and not much to THROW very rare for this type of keyboard.
SO PRO KEYBOARD FOR MUSICIAN AND NON-COMMERCIAL CA CHANGE OF PSR.
ONLY FOR FLAT CARD OPTION A 2000.00 euros more than it's a shame
ADD 300.00 STILL THE MAP TO THE EXTENSION.
To get a BOFF! BUY JUST FOR FUN.
HOWEVER THE REASON IS HELL AND PERFORMANCE INCLUDED IN THE PRICE OF
SYNTHE MORE.

OVERALL OPINION

A FEW WEEKS.
THIS CHOICE I would do for sure. FROM DX7 from Yamaha is really a good surprise MOTIF ES6 EC.
AND HAND IT IS A MATTER !!!!!!!!!!

quite a tool! see description! Must the ports for plugs can be to add a DX7 card VL1 a harmonizer!

UTILIZATION

yamaha it must be the record! the screen is cluttered with a lot of news pages has turned rmais effects can be programmed easily, it takes time to tame this worstation real bemmol the sampling difficult to manage the horror ... ....... mode patterns is too great to get a piece of integration it quickly plug in voice cards or perf is easily the arpeggiator covers all styles of music ......... .

SOUNDS

wow! terrible! the sounds of pianos, piano elec, elec guitars acoustic bass, strings, drum kits !!!.......... a short throw anything!

OVERALL OPINION

a keyboard that can be sufficient unto itself! exellent machine which is now a price! Suel the flat portion sampling is very complicated to manage, but after a bomb has single-handedly

Yamaha really created a good product with the Motif ES6 , I think it's pretty user-friendly and you can literally spend days on trying to figure out all of it features because there's too many to mess with. You can change waveforms, add just about any effect to your sound, create scores, and make entire compositions. This instrument doesn't really need expansion boards unless you really need a specific sound that this workstation doesn't have.


UTILIZATION

I found this workstation to be quite user-friendly. I had a lot of it figured out on the second day of messing with it. If the screen was just a little bigger then the Motif would be really off the chain! I usually need help from somebody to show me how to work things like this but I happened to figure it out on my own. Even my friend who owns a Korg Triton Pro-Workstation enjoys playing my Motif over his Korg any day.

No problems yet with this workstation. It never leaves my studio and is never in any harms way. Damn, I paid nearly 2 G's for this thing. It is well taken care of. The quality of the manufacturing is pretty good, you can feel the quality of texture of the keys when you place your fingers on them.


SOUNDS

The sound quality on the ES is truly top quality! It beats any other synthesizer on the market today. With over 1,000 sounds built-in, there is no need for samples! What I personally liked were the strings and brass on the ES. They are incredibly real and are not ; meaning they have many effects. For example, acoustic guitars are programmed such that when you hit the key on the keyboard, it's like hitting the actual string on the guitar, sensitivity matters! Another thing about the ES is the 64 built-in drum kits. They contain everything from Hip Hop, R&B, Rock, Belly Dancing to Garage kits.


OVERALL OPINION

The ES is built tough. The exterior is very durable and somewhat scratch-resistant. The keys are high quality, as with other Yamaha's I've used. One drawback is the ; of the ES gets dirty and smudgy with simple day-to-day use.

I can not recite all CHARACTERISTICS, so there are a. As to the essential:
-175Mo of samples in ROM
-Stokage: smartmedia, USB 1.1 priph but ...
-Up to 1GB of PC133 RAM (I 2 * 512MB) standards (and yes, the memory of veteran keyboardist I do not know a single sampler hard going beyond the linear array in 512 standard)
Arpgiateur ultra-
- 8 insert effects + reverb and chorus (never sounds "thin" and mix in your squence)
Sound -1024 base + 65 drum kits
Intgration-technology "Keyboard Mega Voice" found on the Tyros (bass, and guitars, is to fall under the ground ...)
-Comes with a 170Mb CD-ROM sound samples, including three layers of the S90 piano, saxophone and sounds of wood and drum loops.
The part-squenceur can grate up 226,000 notes on 16 tracks, with features like Rehearsal Rec mode.
-Mode remote to control or SONAR or CUBASE SX LOGIC from the MOTIF

In short, I have long hesitated to put a euro in a keyboard gnraliste since my ... Yamaha SY77, but l. .. I broke my piggy bank.

UTILIZATION

For hackers and regulars of the brand, it is not complicated.
By trs cons may stepfather complex for the novice or for anyone who's used other Systmes such as Korg TRITON. But After a few hours (days?) Uses the come back alone.

The edition of his ... for now they seem original dj HUGE, not yet had time to edit, but with 4 lments by voice, it's enough to make a good sound with your favorite samples .

The manual seems a little unreasonable because it n'accde not easily what you want to search. But hey, I have not taken the time to read intgralit.

That's why I give it 9.

SOUNDS

I am not at all a fan of the brand, as one might think. My Yamaha SY77 ft one of my first keyboard that I kept because I matrise 200%. For I never AIM against the sound yamaha ... until today. Therefore, I have a prfr and KORG KURZWEIL PC2R NS5R.

But having made the rounds, respectively, what is the best at the moment: KORG TRITON STUDIO, ROLAND FANTOM-S, KURZWEIL K2600, the MOTIF ES is my opinion the most versatile and well led. Fan of acoustic sounds, mainly jazz (trad and modern) as well as hip hop, soul, RnB and drive, the MOTIF ES best matches my expectations.

Only the K2600 is lgrement above the noise level and effects (KDFX), but for the price and features, there is no photo.

The keyboard is a gal for him even 61 keys (I find it better than on TRITON although some say it's the same manufacturer)

I love all the sounds except possibly be the saxes, which I find a little too chouilla-synthetic, but the chantionneur is to fill the PB.

OVERALL OPINION

I is true that for two weeks, but I waited 12 years and decide what to buy a new keyboard APRS have tried everything in the area:
KORG (M1, 01, Trinity, Karma, Triton)
KURZWEIL (K2000, K2500, K2600)
ROLAND (SERIES JV, XV, XP80, Fantom-s)
YAMAHA (QS300, W5, EX7, MOTIF classic).

The report is qualitprix qu'intressant. While waiting for the Kurzweil K2661, I could not resist the MOTIF ES6.

Day I would put this notice in a few weeks when I could make better use of this machine.

Motif ES8, 88-key hammer

UTILIZATION

At first glance, the man-machine interface is a little scary, use "basic" is easy, but the frustration of knowing we could do 10,000 times more things without understanding how to do is great ... I have now for a month and I am just beginning to master the beast, especially the clarity of the manual is such that a quicker one to démerder ... However when we understand the logic of the system, the AC is good ..

SOUNDS

I think there's really not much to say ... Everybody agrees ...

OVERALL OPINION

Overall, with a little patience and research, this keyboard is a delight ... I think we can not beat the current market
For real pianist looking for a true piano touch I would say that personally I am fully satisfied with the touch of SS8.

Ben just browse to find all of AF that is about it!

UTILIZATION

It is a synthetic "pro" then should not say it's going it alone! Y must work and spend some time on it. After a minimum of handling is a rgal!
BMOL for the manual ... (Uh it translated?)
Worse as the aut 'said "why make it simple when it can be complicated!"

SOUNDS

So its just the dmant! The sound is really trs "pro"! and I know for boss on many machines (hardware and software!) But I found that both for acoustic or synths, the "workstation" worth dtour. Worse then the control of Cubase, the coupled 01X ... I'm in heaven! You all drivers when you arrange the pattern and the mix is ​​the control over 01X! I recommend this config all those who want to invest (~ 5500 with QBASE and a good PC) Bravo Yam Yam while anti j'tais There's still a year! from the pattern and 01X ... As said "There's the c. .. who change their minds!"

OVERALL OPINION

Goodies: I've had one week, but I love to dj at least 10 years (13 years for my M1!)
Everything is hell on this machine! Bravo Yam ... (But good price!)
Cons: really hefty and must take time to have on hand!
I would do if this choice?? what a question ... sr good so! Another ngatif: Yam Thank you for not having included a minimum of Ram for sampling (at least to try) Up in the cheap SD (30 MB to 256 in L. .. D. .. L ... C. .. (2x128, so h must be put in the ball otherwise it's 2 slots)) For me personally I think that it's really more ncessaire. But for the price, it would t the very least ...
A big 9 close to the 10 because of the grip, the manual a bit ... blur, and because it requires investment in Ram to be able to at least try the Sampling mode!

See all notices for the previous ones CHARACTERISTICS.

UTILIZATION

Gnrale configuration is far from being simple, not speaking ill of the manual that brings in 300 pages what could spell at 50!
Therefore, requires some patience and not be hsiter DIFFERENT rfrer to posts and sites on the Motif ES to get out before the nervous breakdown.
Once the overall logic equates the possibilties incoryables dcouvrent of the machine and the fun is meeting.

SOUNDS

RAS sounds are fantastic. Arpges practitioner. The sounds fit many styles of music. I mainly use natural sounds.

OVERALL OPINION

I possde for a little over a month.
O Pass the first week despite the sleepless nights, I went through DIFFERENT results and I long for me hsit hit me between the head against the walls and enter the head of my seller against the walls, I am delighted. This is an exciting imagination.
INTERESTED I think you can connect a microphone to record audio directly over other MIDI tracks without even having to go through a squenceur software.
However, the SQ01, (software included with squenceur) is quite convenient and simplifies many things, the size of the notch of MOFIF n'tant not his strong point!

I do it again this choice without pb.
I just put 9 because the manual and the screen.

Motif ES6
61-key keyboard
16-track sequencer
ect ....

UTILIZATION

Setting a bit complex and manual dificil ... but after several tries and many hours of reading ... it is a treat ...

SOUNDS

Unheard of ... nothing to say ... sounds very good qualities .... especially electric guitars ... arpegges also excellent.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for one week ... and I still discovering every day.
I installed on this ground two strips 256 MB SDRAM ... an external hard drive and a 30GB 2.5 usb 128 mb .... the drive is for storing nikel midi files and wav ...
I already have a PSR 9000 PRO 8 GB HDD ... I found the same features ... but sounds better on the ground.
complementary to the two suits me very use.The only regret is that at noon on a sequential pattern ... by default uses its sound ... so the tracks are not always well reglé.il must change track by track for the general to noon.
the price remains high but is justified.
if I had the choice again I would do without problem

I have now for over 2 years ... So I decided to leave an opinion.

UTILIZATION

Manual not great (it served me a few times anyway). Anyway as beacoup people of my generation I tritouille all the buttons before reading the manual, faisnat trust my instincts! and contrary to what many say, I still find it intuitive. (This is my first yamaha.)
Touch top, fast and pleasant. (Connected via MIDI to a digital piano technics for Pr in touch piano).

SOUNDS

Sounds ...
Y 'full of all styles ... but as usual we never find what you want ... (I mean the synth sounds). so I immersed myself in the synthesis, and there what a surprise: the samples are very good: THE PRESETS ARE VERY LOING OF WHAT THE PROGRAM CAN BE WITH THIS MACHINE. The names of the famous synth samples are hardly hidden: saw303, sqr303, mgbass, T8 and T9 borers etc ... (Connoisseurs will recognize) ... (Note that samples of Yamaha synths have their original names: DX7, CS80 ...). Use them without too much impact with a good set of envelope can produce sounds terrible. The presets are too flouttés in effect, most of them still quite 80 years or Dance.
That said, the effects are exelant for the most part.
I found that the bores were all alike on this synth, but again, I put the hands dirty and also surprise. By reprogramming the whole: by adding a slight distortion followed by a compression you can have HUGE Kicks. I even sounds drilled starting from a white noise ...

The factory settings are loaded too low: the mix and mastering effects on paterns do not sound pro ... The bass sounds are also very loaded ... ... too low. In short it reprogrammed and then ...

the least of this synth:
The mastering compressor and other multiband compressors are fairly anecdotal
No filter top (sounds really digital): we do our best days.
Some digital effects too (disto. ..)
Bug mode pattern: sometimes I record the track is copied to a track (thankfully still empty before, but not top top ...)
Acoustic sounding synth sounds, but not worse than pluspart of these competitors: some are very good (keyboards, electric bass some, some organs ... and many others) while others are not really tops (brass, the pluspart of strings.
The guitars have a great huge leap forward with this synth (and notably his arpeggiator) but there is still much to do.

OVERALL OPINION

More: samples, programming, effects ...
Cons: some sounds, filter, some effects ...
IS CRITICIZED ON A WORKSTATION REPROUIRE NOT THE BEST ALL INSTRUMENTS??
Frankly given the price (€ 2,000) can not be in a Fender, a Gibson, a Stradivarius in a sax € 30,000, a grand piano to € 100,000, a set of vintage synth etc ...
That's why I put him a "small" 9 / 10

THE HARDWARE STILL A bright future

I was able to cite only a fraction qualities (and flaws) tellements these capabilities are enormous

See previous opinions

UTILIZATION

This is my second synth. Before I was working on a "small" Roland JX-305 that I use even after 7 years of loyal service, and who taught me to use a synth (though it is operated can really do a good job, then it may be disappointing at first).

Machine rather intuitive and ergonomic aspects of the midday JX: So I still have not opened the manual!

SOUNDS

The ultimate criterion. I did not know which machine to buy, so I went to Paris to try the sounds, with a clear bias in favor of Roland ... turned out to be the least appealing: summarizing without too much exaggeration, the only big difference I noticed between the Fantom and JX appears to be at the converters ... I indeed found some patches (some are also the same names as "solid goa") already existing in my synth yet no longer young, and eyes closed I had trouble finding a difference. Big disappointment, although I'm curious to hear what gives a V-Synth.

So I find myself in front of two strangers, Korg and Yamaha. Strangely, I always had an a priori negative mark. As for Korg, the only reference I had in mind back to the M1 (which had struck hard at the time). I then try the triton extreme. The sounds are already much better, but I remain on my hunger has not heard another synth that jx for 7 years, I expected to hear a hopeful step forward, a mini-revolution at least ... bof, against the lamp by providing a real bonus. That said, I could play with isolated patches and I wonder what happens to the mix.

I only remained to try the pattern, and without conviction after these two episodes, I even hesitate to test it, almost resigned to leave empty-handed ... ben's simple, I stayed two hours longer in the store!

Not what I expected, but good surprises: Most of the patches are good, sound beautifully and are very inspiring! special mention for electric guitars, some patches of it can even vary the timbre in real time by letting your fingers on the keyboard to vary the relaxation (the patch then varies depending on the value of the latter). Even the piano is not too rotten. I regret not just the strings quite varied, as kits batteries for that matter, especially at the snare and percussion annexes, although a bank is dedicated to chromatic percussion. In contrast, Natural and other Musical Effects worth visiting, such as keyboards. The synth sounds are impeccable.

It is true that all sounds a bit digital, or rather we would like to a grain more analog as the rest is a success. On the other hand, it should be noted the ease with which they mix the sounds together: although very rich in harmonics, they mix without being too negative frequency recovery, and clean everything is audible, but not perfect of course, but we approach the concept of "premixed ready-to-dial." The difference on this point with Jx is as large as that of the quality of sound. It's really appreciated! Similarly, it can overload the piece by stuffing the 16 tracks, dynamics and power provide: I always hear clearly my battery where the snares and kicks others drowned in my projects on JX.

When I think I am far from having exploited all ...

Touch on the other hand is okay, nothing less.

OVERALL OPINION

I bought used a year ago for around 1300 euros. Say that I do not regret is an understatement ...

I finally have a pro machine, and it was nice to have a device that like the JX, it remains essential to obtain eventually a synth of this size, both the quality of sound is undeniably crucial. I made more from this machine, and also faster: it sounds live, when we set a rhythm for example, we do ben said "bizarre, it lacks a little something, I do not know what" we realizes that what counts for much in that little something, in this case is the sound quality!

And besides, in my opinion the most versatile machine at present.

Last point of interest, the series of MO (6.7 and 8), much more affordable and with the same bank's!

It is a 5 octave synth with everything you need for a Controller worthy of the name, 2 knobs, ribbon, sustain, foot switch, audio inputs, 4 outputs spares, 8 multi-effects Fully ditables all.

768 presets all styles, possibility to have up to four instruments at the same time, all types of layers and splits possible.

Polyphony 128 voices, extremely useful when stacking sounds because I also have a voice MO8 and 64 of the latter are quickly reached if you play Manir rich performance with a sequence of battery 3 other sounds of keyboards and bass stacked.

UTILIZATION

The config is not comfortable if you do not know the logic Yamaha.

Everything is Fully ditable, so everything is possible.

An important dtail: The memory is volatile so it must have a compatible USB key (or a former MODELS smartmedia find that difficult) to store its songs (no vocals and performances, they are stock es on dedicates ROM)

A BMOL squenceur me on the possible problem (skipping second quarter of each new loop of a same song) on ​​an instrument loaded with 11 tracks + 3 plug-in card INSRE (PLG150AP, DR and PC) playing at the same time. So, one must rebalance on a DAW like Cubase.

The manual is quite Drout, there are some quick start, then another who wants to explain the operating principle of the Motif ES, steep enough to departure. Not everything Retailer and you learn as and find the info you seek.

SOUNDS

And is the main strength: its sounds and capabilities of publishing. It was quite good presets, but at the same time, it is not limited to the contrary.
The presets are good, but balance and ruffed a little way back in, it can be seen the standard sound quality filters, quas, compressors etc ...
I usually make instrumentals for singers like playback and clients are impressed with the expressiveness of the instruments ism. Ms. guitarists are having thanks to MegaVoice!
Incidentally, the cards 150pcs Plugin (percussion) and 150DR (drums) are standard,, ds presets on the other hand, the cymbal sustains no end of kicks that make you sound good on the bottom of Headquarters, slamming snares, it becomes difficult to mix the same shot with all the harmonics in every sense.

My prfres sounds: pianos, Hammond organs, violins rear plan, drums, guitars ... I do not dtest but I spend less time on the rest, I still find my account leaves a little to change the sounds.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for 4 years and live in the studio and I'm still not all the end of the BTE. What I like most: sound.
Minimum: ergonomics, dpart anyway.
INTERESTED report quality price since you can do it all.
I would do without this choice hsiter prfrerais and I even have a Motif ES 8 Used plutt 1200-1300 saw the possibilities of buying the XS 3000 is in nine.

The Yamaha Motif ES6 is a great board and workstation. It only has 6 octaves but you can transpose to a different octave. The Motif ES isn’t as powerful as the XS versions but it still holds its own weight. It has everything you need to compose great music. The Yamaha Motif ES6 has very good sequencing and has professional sounds to get your music to the next level for an affordable price.

UTILIZATION

The sounds are amazing, great synths, strings and pads. You can use this keyboard for any genre of music. You could have this for a year and still learn something new out of the blue. The Yamaha Motif ES6 give you full control of the sounds to manipulate them any way you would like. Unfortunately the screen isn’t nice and big like it is on the XS. Its very small and cheap, there also isn’t as many effects as there is on the XS version of the board. With the smaller screen its harder to editing the effects and sequencing / midi notes the way you want to or may be used to if you are coming from a higher version of the Yamaha Brands or from a software sequencing program like Acid, Reason or FL Studio. Don't get me wrong, the Yamaha ES6 is a great board, but its no where as near as powerful as the XS versions of the Yamaha boards. If you compare the too boards its definitely worth saving up a little more money to get the higher version of this board.


SOUNDS

Comes with a bunch of presets and a bunch of kits from hop hop to rock. I love all of the horn presets, and the orchestra hits!

OVERALL OPINION

It is loaded with a ton of presets to get you p and running, and the manual is very clear and concise. But you will definitely need to take the time to read the manual. You wont be able to do everything you need to do right off the bat until you pick up the manual (that is if you are new to this board). If you are a vet to Yamaha’s workstations this will be a perfect fit for u. It comes stocked with drum kits and sound effects that you wow you. Price is on the higher end, but its well worth the investment.

The Yamaha Motif ES6 is a great board and workstation. It only has 6 octaves but you can transpose to a different octave. The Motif ES isn’t as powerful as the XS versions but it still holds its on weight. It has everything you need to compose great music.

UTILIZATION

The sounds are amazing, great synths, strings and pads. You can use this keyboard for any genre of music. You could have this for a year and still learn something new out of the blue. The Yamaha Motif ES6 give you full control of the sounds to manipulate them any way you would like. Unfortunatly the screen isn’t nice and big like it is on the XS. Its very small and cheap, there also isn’t as many effects as there is on the XS version of the board.


SOUNDS

Comes with a bunch of presets, a bunch of kits from hip hop to rock. All sounds are really good and realistic. I love the horn presets, very clean and crisp.

OVERALL OPINION

Overall,It is loaded with a ton of presets to get you p and running, and the manual is very clear and concise. But you will definitely need to take the time to read the manual. You wont be able to do everything you need to do right off the bat until you pick up the manual (that is if you are new to this board). If you are a vet to Yamaha’s workstations this will be a perfect fit for u. It comes stocked with drum kits and sound effects that you wow you. Price is on the higher end, but its well worth the investment.

hit type synth excellent, much better than my ex-Juno G sounds very difficult to navigate at first.

UTILIZATION

The general pattern is very complicated compared to many other synths I've had (the tritone, the juno-g, etc. ...). There are many sub-menu, in short, ergonomics is not his strong point, more user Empoli (it's marked with that record on my spelling in French) is almost unreadable ...

February 2011 edit: Even with time and habit, I confirm that the workstation is hard to handle: just to avoid this for a beginner who may be discouraged ...

SOUNDS

The sounds are beautiful, especially acoustic, but editing can obtain a wide variety of synth sounds (just see the number of waveforms) Among the workstations I've owned, it is clearly ahead in terms of Blancing sound (relative to the triton, Juno-G, etc. ...) Also have 8 insert effects per song is simply awesome! It is important to know that unlike the Motif XS, you can add summary maps VL, AN and DX cossidérablement that increase the sound possibilities of the machine (having a half-An1 x, a DX7 and a VL1 simplified in the same machine is a more significant!) but a computer running Windows XP is essential.

Edit February 2011: 5 years later, I still really enjoy with all these sounds!

OVERALL OPINION

I've had more than end of 2006.
On occasions, the money is extra, although better than a MO 6 for example has fewer side effects, no sampling, cheap finish ... and which costs almost the same price new. IN short, despite a questionable ergonomics, a good value in the field of workstations.

February 2011 Edit: I always get tired and do not least thanks to its PLG cards (very hard to find today). That said, I will complete it with a korg Kronos, it multisynthèses home and without option cards.

To me there really isn't anything missing!

Price paid

1,800

UTILIZATION

The machine itself wasn't hard to use. This is coming from someone that is new to producing.I think that everything is somewhat easy to figure out and the manual isn't bad.

Well I just purchase the motif es6 so, so far so good!!

SOUNDS

I'm somewhat new to this whole producer thing but, I'm not new to the music industry in a whole. As far as buying a workstation the motif es6 is great. The sounds on this machine go great with the type of music that my partners ,and myself produce. That type of music would be hip hop r&b ,and rock alternative. Honestly, I believe that all the top three workstation have something good to offer it really comes down to what you want. I did alot of research before I purchased this machine ,and it seems that what one machine may offer the other doesn't. So therefore it really comes down to you. Because if the person behind the machine is no good it really doesn't matter what you buy!

OVERALL OPINION

Well honestly I wouldn't say I love the motif but, I like it alot. I mean damn I just spent damn near two grand on it. Really I hope that my motif ,and all of my other equipment that I use an my other producers equipment they use. Can just some how get us to the damn promise land. What I mean by that is the next level. So do I love the motif, well only time will tell.....

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Posted by: Unknown ( 2-, 2005)

Yamaha did a great job with not excluding any features that you can think of for a workstation. I think it's pretty user-friendly and you can literally spend days on trying to figure out all of it features because there's too many to mess with. You can change waveforms, add just about any effect to your sound, create scores, and make entire compositions. This instrument doesn't really need expansion boards unless you really need a specific sound that this workstation doesn't have.

Price paid

$1800

UTILIZATION

I found this workstation to be quite user-friendly. I had a lot of it figured out on the second day of messing with it. If the screen was just a little bigger then the Motif would be really off the chain! I usually need help from somebody to show me how to work things like this but I happened to figure it out on my own. Even my friend who owns a Korg Triton Pro-Workstation enjoys playing my Motif over his Korg any day.

No problems yet with this workstation. It never leaves my studio and is never in any harms way. Damn, I paid nearly 2 G's for this thing. It is well taken care of. The quality of the manufacturing is pretty good, you can feel the quality of texture of the keys when you place your fingers on them.

SOUNDS

The sound quality of almost all sounds on this workstation is great. There are a few things on the keyboard that I'm discontent with but it all depends on what you want from the workstation. Since I produce R&B and Hip-Hop tracks, this has been a great instrument for me. The Motif ES6 is one of those instruments that offer some things that other workstations don't have, but those other workstations have some things that the Motif doesn't have. It all depends on you. I wish Yamaha added just a few more orchestral sounds and sound effects. The Motif is great if you want to incorporate real-like sounds into your tracks. If you want to create electronic music like dance music, then this isn't the workstation for you. With this workstation, you're definitly going to be creating tracks that are of the same quality as the ones that are out on the radio or cd's that you buy in stores. That's only if you know how to use it.

OVERALL OPINION

I use the Motif in every track that I make. I don't make my tracks entirely with the Motif but it is a must-have.

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Posted by: Unfadeable Isaiah (January 0-, 2005)

Perfect again it has everything i need im lovin the mute buttons.

Price paid

$1,400

UTILIZATION

Very easy i was told a few things and checked the manual once or twice and pretty much know everything i need to know.

built real nice. it was dropped before and all that broke was the usb input witch i use so i had to get reapired cost 80 cutz other than that no problems

SOUNDS

Lovely this thing is crazy everything is perfect. i have a mpc 2000 for drums but lately ive been sampling them into the motif at a lower sample rate. real nice naw mean

OVERALL OPINION

I love this joint i woundnt trade for a fantom and two tritons. first equipment i had other than fruityloops and a sp-303. i have a mpc 2000 that im learning how to use but my motif is taking up all my time.

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Posted by: almost-famous ( 3-, 2006)

The ES is equipped with a Step Sequencer, demolishing the need for MPC's and other sequencing hardware. It is somewhat hard to use, but is a breeze to use and export once you get a grip on it. The ES is equipped with the largest memory of all synthesizers; 175mb upgradable. The features on the ES in general are phenominal. The ES has over 1,700 arpeggios built in! With that many arpeggios, you are sure to find what you're looking for, from Rock, to Funk, to Hip-Hop pre-programmed arpeggios. The ES also has a hardware mixer, to mix your songs live. Another unique feature is the optional mLAN, which is an add-on that will enable the ES to function as an Audio Interface when connected to a computer. The ES also works as a Pre-amp for dynamic microphones.

Price paid

$1,600

UTILIZATION

The OS on the ES (as with the original Motif) is somewhat hard to use. It takes a day or two to get used to getting around, finding the right sound (from a library of 1000s of sounds) and trying to find what you're exactly looking for. Navigation through the "F" and "SF" buttons is not exactly a breeze. I have had the keyboard for a while but it's still hard to find the specific voices I'm looking for.

SOUNDS

The sound quality on the ES is truely top quality! It beats any other synthesizer on the market today. With over 1,000 sounds built-in, there is no need for samples! What I personally liked were the strings and brass on the ES. They are incredibly real and are not "stock," meaning they have many effects. For example, acoustic guitars are programmed such that when you hit the key on the keyboard, it's like hitting the actual string on the guitar, sensitivity matters! Another thing about the ES is the 64 built-in drumkits. They contain everything from Hip Hop, R&B, Rock, Belly Dancing to Garage kits.

OVERALL OPINION

The ES is built tough. The exterior is very durable and somewhat scratch-resistent. The keys are high quality, as with other Yamahas I've used. One drawback is the "face" of the ES gets dirty and smudgy with simple day-to-day use.

I have to say I absolutely love this keyboard. The sounds, the quality, the overall professional feel is what sets this keyboard apart from others on the market. It definitely earns a 10.

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Posted by: range ( 4-, 2006)