White Montage + OS V3 Updates from Yamaha Japan 

Great update for the montage.enjoye your stay in Tokyo.it's a lovely city and a synth paradise please contact no give me sir Thq

@@prasanthbadanayak8511 Why did you copy his comment?

I want his job...

Thanks a lot Andrei! Rock on my friend!

Thanks for the warning. This isn’t quite state-of-the-art; user data should be indepedent from the OS!

Unbelievable. They were not able to make an updater that keeps user data? Very weak.

@@studioonetutorials The MONTAGE6/MONTAGE7/MONTAGE8 V3.00 Operating System Updater Readme file states: "- All User memory (Library data, User data, User sample and so on) will be initialized by this updater. Please make sure that you have saved all User data to a USB flash drive before performing this update." It's not a big deal to backup user data to a USB flash drive or computer and should be done anyway!

@@RayyMusik I'd say the Montage is very state-of -the-art. At 52 years old now, I remember quite well when I was younger having to open up my Solton Programmer 24 to swap out an EPROM chip to update the OS... (and frequently as there were many bugs and subsequent updates)

Geoff Toney My first synth was a MiniKorg 700S. I had to do NOTHING to update the OS - there was none. :D

EDub thank you for the nice words :)

@@DomSigalas You're welcome, my friend - they are well-deserved! :)

or you can modulate/automate it with a motion sequence lane, wich can act as a sort of fancy user envelope/lfo, and enhance it further with the (user drawable) curve type(and get crazy weird results), in the control assign screen, it makes up for the fact that the mini filter is in the effect section...it's strange that they did not just implement it in the normal filter section, as in the filter menu there are about 8 or 9 empty spaces left.

+1 ..... 👍🍻

yep....

What an awesome place. Spent half an hour there this summer, wish I had the time for half a day... A bit hard to find, but Apple Maps shows the precise location luckily. (Hidden inside, no storefront.)

Yes!… I've been a lover of the REAL CP series for 30+ years… have a CP-70M and a CP-60M… would love to have that tee shirt!

Ronald Rademaker They say at the end of the video, today.

I found this : MONTAGE OS v3.0 is expected to be available ‘very soon’, with MODX OS v2.0 following in late October

Have the fantom and love it but honestly white montage is on the way. They seem to offer a different enough sound scape to do so and I am excited to have the contrast of the two

It did, if you but _/*BASIC*/_ in bold, italic and upper-case and then underscore it.

Super super super basic! So basic it didn't really count as a sequencer. This is much better

Absolute Joke. If Yamaha added a proper VST editor and a Virtual Analog engine this would make the board so much more attractive.

Fundemental Roast hahah they will they will add a VST editor soon. The good thing about a Montage it’s that it’s updatable. So they can make some improvements for sure.

The MODX&Montage don’t have a full sequencer, mind you

@@javiceres They do now with the 2.0 firmware update.

@@javiceres MONTAGE OS v3.0 adds a Pattern Sequencer with modern real time recording features. Patterns consist of eight 16-track Sections. Each track can be up to 256 bars in length. Build Patterns on the fly with continuous loop recording and apply non-destructive Play FX. You can also record track by track applying Job-based edits to quantize, divide drum tracks, create rolls, etc. Pattern Sections can be chained together to create Songs. I guess that sounds if not full, then almost full sequencer and better than Fantom's. Of course, you need to have hands on experience to know how it works.

Ali Caramba That’s a very welcomed update!!

oh man they would have loyalty for life if they did, and they should because the sounds can be used on the new synths. what i want is a montage/modx collection for the motif xf, especially sounds with fm that can be controlled by the controllers and pedals.

Hi Thomas Cook, I hear you went bankrupt yesterday. Good luck recovering and have fun with your Fantom.

@@MrBitterman75 I am happy to get bankrupt. Mean while checkout this link below. You will gooo in heaven. She did that all alone. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FEl9WAcr1NM.html

Now if only they could write Fantom on this wonderful sounding Montage (which is the only workstation to really bend my ear from my Kronos at all), then I’d be all over a “Fantom” too. :) seriously, why does the Roland just sound so thin and like a few generations behind on many of its sounds? I love its design otherwise. Just not convinced on sounds. Whereas listening to this ‘sells’ me.

thomas cook that is a good demo though thanks for sharing, the sounds on the outdo song were great... I imagine some of this is due to synthesized sounds vs sampled. I just don’t know how good the sampled libraries are on Roland. Even in the old days they sounds a bit flat/phony. Also why the heck didn’t they include all the Aira engines, like ACB for drums and Tb-3 emulation? Now that would have made sense and been a killer flagship!

@@boothbuster I had a lil demo and ordered the Fantom coz also heard many demo on RU-vid and other social site and I liked the sounds and other new stuff. If I am unhappy after I give a try on it. I will surely returned it. I loved the sequencer, I can connect extermal gears, Daw control mode as well and simultaneously I can use internal fantom soundsalso , plus hammer keys which is on Roland 2000 with after touch, modeless concept, ease of use, not much menu diving for small things, hands on control for sythn and so much more.... and plus roland said they will more feature to it. So why not to give try to it and I must share the sounds I heard in many demo on youtube and other site for example drums groove and synth and bass lines etc they match very close to the mainstream and underground music and thats very important for me.

In terms of releases sure, but there's a bunch more stuff to come

@@sonicstate Do you mean there is more to come from Yamaha , or sonic state content ?

not for nick

And aftertouch; this is the greatest drawback of the MODX.

Rayy‘s Musikladen guys you would have to buy a Montage 8 I’m sorry but it is what it is. It’s heavy cause it’s durable built like a tank. Parts are easily replaceable if you mess up the chassis like a bum or something or a hole in the metal by dropping it you can replace it easily but with the modx it isn’t replaceable but you could buy another modx cause it’s that cheap

@@tuneunleashed it definitely "is not what it is". Between MODX and Montage, MODX is the better instrument for most live gigs: It's lighter, more compact and has the same sound. It is the modern DX7. They definitely can (and should, imho) provide an almost as compact instrument with better DACs and a higher price point. As it is, you really don't have any reason to buy the montage8. You buy a MODX6 and a modx8 for almost the same amount of money.

Prot Eus True but the reason why I got the montage 8 instead it’s just overall better. Pure Analog Circuit which the MODX doesn’t have 8 Faders it’s basically the MODX on steroids, more layers on the Montage Than the MODX better action keys it feels better to play and I do take the montage to gigs with a case that has wheels on them. I take it to the bus, the train the car and looks just like new till this day it’s not that hard lol. That’s If you have a case that has wheels on them. But you have a point MODX is easier to install but if you want also a light board with good action go for a Nord Stage 3 or go for a Yamaha CP 88 or 73 its nice. Yes the montage and modx are the exact same sounds but not the exact same outputs

@@tuneunleashed I understand that since you bought montage, you don't want buyer's remorse, but what I'm saying is: a MODX with 8 faders, preset selection buttons and montage DACs would sell like hotcakes, even if it was priced 500 bucks higher than MODX. As it is, for live gigs MODX is better and for the studio you have VSTs and proper sequencers. I think this is the conclusion to this thread, thanks.

What Dirk said. Exactly. The filter is super smooth

Prize yamaha kibord

_I'm_ always much happier when Nick is doing the review.

he thinks he is competing, but seriously most people are better with less of a crowd.

Not many people would be able to afford a reissue CS80 so you will never see that happen. Try Arturia VST it sounds awesome.

Marcusmiller A large company providing feature updates to their products is never a disappointment. Too often we see products abandoned just after release.

mattsynth Behringer!!

You have 5 stereo channels on the USB host connection to the computer and you can play .wav files from a usb flash drive. What else do you need?

I thought that was the resonance kicking in

No, its harmonic overtones scrolling through. Analogue does this too. If you want stepping, try the Roland/SE boutique. Resonance steps like a pig, sounds as bad as my A-Station, and that's 20 years old (still great though)

The new Roland Fantom took 10 years to release after the Fantom G.

Starting to sound like vst