MODX sequencer from scratch 

Thank you for watching :-)

Thank you. Happy playing!

That is so true. Sometimes it can make me feel a lil bit of an idiot when someone seems like a genius and me a fool. It can kinda stifle inspiration. Thank you so much, Edgaba

Thanks! Yeah it took a while to figure it out. Haha

Keshava Sharma yes it gets easier the more you use it. Also if you have an iPad is even easier to use with Cubasis. However, for doing instrumentals it is really all you need

@@overviewworkflow3502 I am facing one issue repeatedly. Whenever I do a recording and save it as a pattern name and go back to the same recorded pattern name later on, I can only see the 1st performance associated it, the one which I selected before pressing the record button (both in record screen part 1-8 as well as in the recorded audio in the edit/job section in the overview section) No other performance can be seen in that pattern name even after storing pattern and performance settings. However, when I add the same performances again manually, the recorded part comes back. Please help.

Cool! I think you’ll really like it. If you have an iPad you could sequence and record using cubasis. That is an easier workflow. Congratulations on your new keyboard and happy playing.

2705Jim Thank you so much for your kind comment, congratulations on you MODX purchase, I hope you enjoy it!

Thank you for your kind words. Happy playing

Thank you, Yamaha has made an update to the OS for both the montage and the MODX mostly adding sound design features but they have also added some editing features to the sequencer. I haven’t updated my keyboard yet but fingers crossed they made the sequencer friendlier. I know now they did add a feature where you don’t have to stop the sequencer to change tracks as you record.

Exactly! They made it so complicated it truly makes no sense some of the layout haha

@@eddiegarridobyrequest3990 After over 40 years playing the whole variety of keyboard instruments, my first synth. I am fighting with everthing. Nice documentations/instructional videos are very rare ... and not in my native language. This pure (commercial) theory provided by Yamaha gives me nothing. A few days ago I found something, that first time made me laugh (with understanding). Take a look, my friend: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-89P_uqcSHrA.html

@@ChordFreak yes it’s true, they did make the MODX a bit complicated haha

Thank you and you’re welcome. I’m glad it helped.

Thank you :-)

John yes you are right is always been awkward making a sequence with the Yamaha stuff however is very powerful, if you think of it as arming and disarming tracks, just like you would in any daw or dedicated recorder then it becomes easier to use and also always making sure that we are always recording on the same phrase. Also the scene navigation is powerful for love use. Anyway, I find it easier to connect it to an ipad and using it with Cubasis. All in all is a matter of using the sequencer on the MODX more and more and we eventually get use to it haha

Shows a chinese child of ten programing the Yamaha Modx. They fail to tell you his I.Q is higher than Einstein's 🤣

True haha thanks for the tip

TheSingingRN thank you for watching :-)

Thank you. Keep on jamming! This was very helpful.

Send me a picture of the screen that comes up. It sounds to me that you’re entering audio record mode

In my album I only recorded audio tracks into Cubasis. I plug the MODX to the iPad using a CCK and I find it best to create the audio tracks in stereo. (They are mono by default) that’s how I did it. However if you want to use MIDI so you can edit stuff you.l could record everything in MIDI, edit and than replay everything into Audio tracks. One thing you can try is to freeze the track; I’m not sure what will happen but maybe, just maybe it will convert the MIDI to audio automatically (the freeze function creates an audio track) obviously it works with the Cubasis instruments however, since they are both the same company maybe it will work. Try it as an experiment and let me know if it works. I hope this was helpful.

@@edgaba thank you - i found I can mute all track and record the MODX as a new Audio track playing the MIDI that I created - seems to work -

I’ve never done it on the MODX however, I believe that you import the sample or samples of your live guitar. That sample or samples get assigned to a trigger note (or notes) when you record your pattern you trigger that sample in the track. All the samples need to be saved as a program/Patch so that the MODX can find them every time and you will not need to load them every time. Once it’s a program the MODX will remember the location. I personally would record live instruments with a daw however I assume you want to have different patterns to play a song live with chorus verse etc. Experiment with the above posible solution and I hope this helps. :-)

@@eddiegarridobyrequest3990 yea i did it that way but I can't get my guitar rhythm guitar to align with the quantize is there a way I can use a metronome

Well... make sure your sample of your rhythm guitar is exact. If you are recording it on a daw, make sure there is no fx trail at the end of it. The sample must be accurate. Also you can quantize the note that triggers the sample but make sure that the phrase and the sample share the same length and BPM tempo. All that has to line up. I hope this helps.

I haven’t. I do use Logic however I have two setups. When I use Logic I usually just use Plugin Instruments from UVI and Spectrasonics my second setup is MODX to IPad using Cubasis. Although my last full album was was recorded using all MODX and Cubasis, I mostly use the MODX for live performances.

Hello and thanks for listening to Funky Grooves. Yes all the sounds are from the MODX. The drums were made with different iPad apps using MV08, Arturia iSpark and some from the MODX. Mostly I used MV08 built from scratch. Once I built the drum loops I needed I transfer them to Cubasis on the iPad than connected the MOdX to the iPad via USB and recorded in top of the drum tracks as audio. All the sounds and percussions came from the MODX except obviously the Trumpet on the song Whispers and The songs: Prophet Dreams and Coming Home: these were made entirely with iPad apps Syntronic and iMini. The pianos are Reavenscroft app. Thanks for listening.

1.Choose( highlight) the instrument/track you want to edit. 2. Press the Edit button. 3. Press Mod/Control. 4. Press Receive SW. 5. The 5th column from left to right is Sustain, turn it off. I hope this helps.

@@edgaba yea I tried that and it doesn’t work would you believe! :( thanks for replying

@@edgaba worked it out mate it was what you said but I had to to exit for changes to take effect Thanks for your help

Levinite 1 Yes you can. And also in 2 different ways. You could link your phrases into a song arrangement and play it like that or you can use the scenes . For example, scene one intro scene 2 verse, scene 3 chorus etc. This way if you have a player that ones to solo for a long time or you want to lengthen or shorten a song you can do so. The MODX has 1 gig of internal ram to hold midi notes and samples. I believe it also reads from a USB drive. An advantage of playing a song with all tracks in the sequencer is that you can mute tracks on the fly if sometimes you have other players with you. A disadvantage is that depending on the sounds you use in your tracks some patches are polishing hungry and you may experience drop notes. It all depends on the patches you use and how busy the song is. I do t normally use tracks I like to play everything live however, sometimes if it’s necessary I rather trigger any track or sequence with an iPod or iPhone, connect it to the input of the MODX this way you can have the tracks as busy as you want without compromising polyphony and it frees the keyboard completely to other uses. That’s what I do when I don’t have a drummer I program my drum loops and trigger them with an iPhone using Launchpad. I hope this was helpful.

I will try to make one this week

okay the video is up right here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dKs-8hi6B2E.html its a bit blurry but it does the trick.

You need to check the firmware on the keyboard. You may have to install the latest firmware update for the MODX. Download it from the Yamaha website and there are many videos on how to update the firmware on RU-vid. Yamaha/Steinberg has a RU-vid channel. Update your firmware and you’ll be ready to go. I hope this helps.

@@eddiegarridobyrequest3990 Hi Eddie, you are heaven-sent. I update the firmware and it works like magic. I wonder how Yamaha will sell me an outdated firmware on a new gear I just acquired less than 3 months ago. Many thanks for all you do and BIG ups brother!!

Yes you can. Time Signature must be set before... much like when writing a chart, you draw the framework before you start entering notes. You cannot change the Time Signature after you record, and have it make sense. From the [PERFORMANCE (HOME)] screen of the Performance you wish to record, touch “Play/Rec” to view the Song Recorder screen. Press the [REC] button to enter Record Standby. Now you can set the Time Signature, Tempo that will be memorized by the Song.

Hello, I’m order to beef up the patches Yamaha sometimes uses the same Patch on different channels with different pan values and maybe fx etc. the modx and montage were originally only for live performance and the sequencer was added later. One way to avoid that is to search for single sounds. When looking for patches under category you can filter out things, the filters are in top of the screen make sure is set to single and only patches that use one channel will appear. I know it’s confusing however, like I said these keyboards were originally design for live use only and they added the sequencer later. I hope this helps.

Andy Sweetman what link are you referring about?

256 measures per scene

Here is another tutorial you might enjoy, to my surprise they were using one of my songs hahaha yamahamodxfaq.wordpress.com/2021/05/15/28-pattern-recorder-mid/

Yes

Yes it can but is not intuitive and it can be tedious I recommend using Cubasis with the MODX and everything becomes very easy.

You can export the midi notes and edit them and re import into modx.

Yes you can. Time Signature must be set before... much like when writing a chart, you draw the framework before you start entering notes. You cannot change the Time Signature after you record, and have it make sense. From the [PERFORMANCE (HOME)] screen of the Performance you wish to record, touch “Play/Rec” to view the Song Recorder screen. Press the [REC] button to enter Record Standby. Now you can set the Time Signature, Tempo that will be memorized by the Song.

pcpanik there is a way for both fixing notes and copy and paste within the MODX but truly the easiest way to use the MODX is to connect it to an iPad and record either MIDI, Audio or both with Cubasis. That is the best way in my opinion. You would need a camera connection kit and the MODX is already an audio interface.

@@eddiegarridobyrequest3990 why do you need a camera connect kit?

@@fredhaws7532 you need a camera connection kit if you are plugin the MODX to an iPad to use with Cubasis Which makes it a lot easier to record both MIDI or Audio.

@@edgaba tks

Sorry, I don’t have melas performer, I really don’t know anything about that.

I have a video on that subject. Assign the patterns to scenes then chain the scenes. I made a video on that very thing.

You can hit record a second time and puts it into practice mode. Hit again to start recording.

Yes it switches when you leave that screen with the exit button, it is a pain. Always check what pattern you are on. Just make sure that you are in the right pattern. The MODX doesn’t have the ideal or easiest workflow but once you are use to it it is very powerful. I prefer using an iPad running Cubasis to sequence. Happy recording!

@@eddiegarridobyrequest3990 I just found out that the way to avoid the pattern from switching when adding a news track or voice is not to press recording, instead just press the play button and it won't switch patterns.

Venatt1 thank you very much for the tip

Sure! They are all sounds from the MODX so you could build it from within. Where would I send the patch?

@@eddiegarridobyrequest3990 are you on Facebook? If so i can direct message you my email there.

yes KEVIN D ROBINSON THERE is a timeline pic of me playing the Roland Keytar with a guitarist. Sorry this took 4 months.

I’m not sure if I understand the question correctly. The rhythm meaning drums, will follow the song as you program it. However, I think you’re talking about a behavior like the once in a PSR series keyboards. If that is the case in theory yes it could but it’s not easy program it that way. The sequencer is built for doing patterns that will build a song. Each patter can have whatever you program I to it and then you can chain all the patterns together in any order you want. Verse, Chorus, Bridge, etc. To have ore programmed rhythms follow your chords you would be better off with a keyboard arranger such as the PSR Series and Korg also makes some nice one. I hope this helps.

In my understanding in the MODX you have 8 User banks Each user bank has 16 Live set pages and each page has 16 performances. In other words 256 user performances per Live Set pages And there is 8 user pages for a total of 2048 user performances Each performance can be named whatever you want like the title of a song. Navigating it is relatively easy. I play with 2 bands and also do a solo act. I use user 5 bank for a rock band and I have yet to fill one of the pages I use 15 performance sets out of the 256 available on that bank. For my solo act I’ve used 4 pages or 64 performances. To my knowledge you cannot name the pages however in my opinion there is no need since you can name the performances. And you could say Bank 4 is for band X and Bank 5 for band Y or something like it. So to recap how many user banks? 8 How many live sets per bank? 256 (16 pages of 16 live sets per bank) I hope this helps.

Yes you can, if you import them as samples. But I wouldn’t recommend that workflow it can be tedious. You could however, use an iPad and record your vocals using Cubasis

Sure, I will soon. I’m the meantime all you have to do is connect a usb chord from the MODX to a camera connection kit (CCK) connect it to the iPad and Cubasis will recognize it. Make an audio or midi track, press record and play :-)

Well... I personally prefer the MODX., Montage, Motif ir even a Nord. I do own a couple of Roland keyboards that can be loaded with Fantom sounds, as their line of keyboards can share sounds. My opinions on these keyboards are as follows. 1. If you play Pop music they are great not so much for jazz and easy listening. The patches mix well in a pop mix specially live but I found that when you need a more intimate sound set the Roland keyboards lack. 2. There manuals are badly written and even their website is so confusing at least for me. I bought a Roland FA for about a week and returned it. But again it depends of your need. I have a Roland Axe that uses fantom sounds and I love it but not for playing jazz, ballads it’s more for playing 80s 90s I also have a JDXI that also uses Fantom sounds and it’s a great little keyboard for making Grooves quickly I really love that one. It really depends on how you would use the Fantom. Here are a couple videos I did on the keyboards I mentioned ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ap7vgMERh58.html JDXI ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UM_AZEws-y8.html Personally I would get a MODX and if you already have one and want a second keyboard and extra cash to spend get a Nord but I’ll repeat it all depends on what are you going to use it for.

I do t understand the question. Could you please be more specific and tell me exactly what is it that you’re trying to do?

Go out of the MODX usb into the iPad through a camera connection kit, Cubasis recognizes immediately. If not go to settings in Cubasis and chose it from the options now you’re ready to transmit both audio and midi. I would recommend just record audio tracks. I hope this helps and sorry for the late response.

Hahaahahah you’re right!