Is the Yamaha MODX8+ Still Relevant Today? 

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That shouldn’t be something everyone does it’s based on your playing style as far as velocity

You forgot to mention, that you'll have to struggle with overdrive then. And by the way... yes... "velocity" is unneeded crap for pseudo-experts, pretending to play concerts in Carnegie Hall. Nearly no common, popular song has it. 99,999% velocity-free.

I agree. Funny; for me personally I preferred the motif xf over the montage sounds; but the MODX+ is a improvement. Sounds great!🤨🎹🎶👍🏾

Compared to the genos?

@@markoconnell804 The motif was the inspiration for boards like the genos

Which is better Korg Nautilus AT or Modx8+ ?

@@shiladityagupta1317 My preference is MODX, but it is entirely a personal preference. You need to try them both.

Adrian - Did your model come with the Bosendorfer piano library or is that something you can download?

@@peternelson4630 It's a free download amongst a good few downloads that Yamaha provide. Well worth downloading I'd say.

Is it better than the genos?

From what planet are you? I wonder, if you are only pretending to have one🤔... or hyping it for money from Yamaha? I never had a more buggy machine in my hand. Or likely you are only playing 5% of the machine. Otherwise your comment cannot be explained.

Is switching tones or settings on the fly very easy to do with the modx? During band play i would need to qukcly move around different presets when switcbing between songs.. HVent seen any review yet on it.. eyes on modx7!

For the price, I think the keybed is the best that's out there. It's also the same one use for the Montage series. At the moment, I'm immersing myself in my MODX8 because I've just joined a dance cover band so I'm not only trying to learn the book of songs, but to also create the "dancey" pop sounds from folks like Bruno Mars and Lizzo. Having studied synthesis and feeling pretty competent, I still find it challenging (and a bit frustrating) to be able the dimension of a Performance (aka "path", "preset", or "sound") to affect the change I want. I also haven't yet mastered assigning controllers to make the live interactions as efficient and musical as possible. Using the Scene feature is really helpful and powerful. However, I've found that a scene does not record the low note and high note of the keyboard control range in a Scene. This means you have to duplicate the part, change the keyboard high and low note of the range, and then have one Scene with one part enabled, and then the other scene has the other part (different keyboard ranges) enabled while the first part is off. Could be worse, but that seems like an oversight to me.

Which Korg workstation did you get?

@@madness8556 The Krome EX.

@@erichkohl9317 how are you finding it? The sequencer of the Krome EX has some great features such as cuelists, RPPP and the piano roll editor that's not even included in the Kronos and Nautilus sequencers.

@@madness8556 Yeah I’d say it’s probably the best sequencer I’ve ever used in a workstation type instrument. That and the sound engines are top notch. Great board for the price. I just wish it would mix down internally to a WAV file; it’s not an audio interface, so I have to record the output to my Tascam. Not a dealbreaker though.

@@erichkohl9317 the Korg workstation sequencers are fabulous and I was able to easily complete entire musical productions using just the sequencer in my now sold Triton Classic. Cuelists, RPPP and the piano roll are great features along with the touch screen interface. It's a pity that Korg hasn't released any new workstation as a true upgrade to both the Triton and Krome with all the extra interface features like the MODX has. Does the Krome also take forever to boot up like both Kronos and Nautilus?

The SY77 is also built like a tank and its keyboard action with aftertouch leaves the 30 year younger MODX for dead.

If you hold the first performance with your keys on the keyboard, and then change your Live Set program or a Performance, the previous sound SHOULD still be sounding as you move to the next one. I just saw a Guitar Center demo with Phillip Cornish where he shows this. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wTzbm_v7WxE.htmlfeature=shared&t=200

No, the question is whether it's relevant today, or if the whole product was obsolete when it was made.

It’s crazy that no one ever mentions that. That’s one of the best features.

It has aftertouch in the software you just need to connect a keyboard with it on to it.

@@darrenhirst9900 the sort of defeats the point, it's like saying like it does velocity but having an organ like keyboard with no such feature. Kronos had hardware aftertouch as do the new Nautilus AT. And both have sotware polyphonic aftertouch which their hardware keyboard doesn't, does making you have to buy an extra hydrasynth, the new NI kontrols or an MPE device to use it properly... Not a cool excusable argument if it justifies actually removing a feature... Like NI now have done with Maschine support...

@@AlvaroMRocha Friend I'm just repeating what Big Mr said from Yamaha. I totally agree with what You've said.

He's saying that no other company has the Yamaha FM emphasis and instrument lineage. At the same time, the Opsix REALLY makes the "no other company" comment sus

Agreed! One thing I don’t care about at all is “Multitimbrality”. I don’t care that the synth can play 8 different parts all on different Midi channels. Like you said that was important in the All Hardware days. I also don’t care about on board sequencers that much either. That is what my DAW is for. Interestingly, there is a trend, at least amongst some RU-vidrs, to return to all hardware production. Maybe it’s to do live shows with their rigs. Maybe they are fed up looking at computers. But not for me. To me, your DAW is another creative instrument in your studio.

@@crhkrebs Yeah. Funny thing is I started out sequencing on software way back in the early 2000s on Fruity Loops 3! I'm now starting to show my age. Lol. I stopped using FL Studio on 2008 and shifted to Cakewalk Sonar 6 and Propellerheads Reason 4 ad then onto hardware. It was faster to sequence on hardware though but terrible when I came to saving your tracks and tideus process of tracking out your tracks. No search feature and takes too damn long to name your tracks a proper name on the MOTIF or MPC because they lack a qwerty keyboard. Since going to software sequencing, it's just seems much more easier. Every since the power supply went out on MPC 5000 was the final nail in the coffin as that's ove 10 years od beats I lost and parts are hard to find. It's hard to lose tracks on a computer as you can make back ups. It's going to take me a long time to convert all my track all from my MPC to midi files so that I can load it ino studio one. I use to be a giving musician myself a former Gospel keyboard player back in 2010 as I know the feeling as workstation keyboards and stage pianos seems to be more reliable in aive setting although a lot pros used Keyscape. I was gigging with my MOTIF ES keyboard in the church back in the day. That board was the staple keyboard in African American churches of black Gospel music! It seems mostly gigging musicians buys Workstations but rarely for production these days.

I don‘t fully agree. The gigging musicians (not those playing in stadiums and the like) who play in clubs, marriages etc. need a keyboard that has all they need onboard, to carry easily around and not having to rely on computers. In this view the MODX (together with some other keyboards) is a very good choice.

@@xaverk I've seen a lot of changes in the last 20 years long as I've been evolved in music Production as it's true much of music industry has shifted towards a computer based DAW setup. I can name countless big time Producer's from Timbaland, B. Cox, Pharrell Williams, Scott Storch to Dr. Dre, Rodney Jerkins are all using midi controllers now. You may see Scott Storch with his Korg Kronos every now and then but mostly uses for live shows. That's why workstation keyboard sales are down compared to 15 years ago. They jut aren't that popular in the music Production world anymore now that computing power has gotten better and audio interfaces offering near zero latency. Most of us old cats still have some hardware in our setup but but the sequencing happens on the computer nowadays. The only thing really selling in Music Production is VA synths or physical modeling synths. Other than that most of everyone these days are soft synths. Workstations serves a very niche market today. Not like it use to be back in the 90s and early 2000s when computing power was limited. Technology evolves and you evolve with it.

@@eman0828 Shure, you‘re right. But my home is not the music production world. For my needs the MODX 7 has the best price/value-relation of all the keyboards I ever owned and played with. And it doesn‘t break my back to carry around. And it never had a software crash or any other problems. I do use Cubase at home as well as in former times other DAWs, but I can't afford the hassle at gigs.