Yamaha MX88 Synthesizer Demo 

I use this keyboard for my high school marching band! It's an absolute beast in terms of the variety of sounds that are in the sound engine.

I play in a Contemporary Christian Rock Band, and this piano is what I play. I'm still learning. This is a great video! It helps a lot showing me around so I better understand the controls.

Another cool demo - thanks Blake! Was particularly interested in the Expression pedal bit and the synth manipulations

I'm in love with Yamaha. Have been since the DX 7❤

It's not the age of the sounds, it's what you do with the sounds that makes all the difference.

I can't believe that I never herd of this keyboard until now. If the key action is good enough I might buy it.

I just bought one for my 12 year old daughter as she has blossomed into an amazing little piano artist. So I'm blown away by this keyboard as I own a Yamaha MOTIF XS8... Now I want this one as an addition to my studio.

Blake kills it again.. Great demo . I can vouch for the black matte keys. The 49 has them too although not weighted.But they do feel great. This is a great instrument.

Makes all people happy is hard. Well done Yamaha.

Yamaha has the best low end musical stuff, they respect the poor

The price is still the same a year later! A good sign that it's keeping it's value. Selling well with good feedback.

No lie I’m a beginner and just trying to get my mind around pads and layering and recently bought the MX88. This app will make my world so much easier 🙏🙏🙏 thank you for sharing... how have I not known about this?!!!

Thank you for this demo. I am probably going to buy this keyboard.

Note to anyone considering purchasing this keyboard. Unbelievably, there’s no easy way to create a favorites list. That’s right, you must scroll and find each sound during a song. I can’t believe Yamaha would design a keyboard that doesn’t offer quick sound changes.

I am loving the sounds of this 88key note definitely check this out next month new practice gear 🎹🎹🎹

That is a great piano sound. Great presentation. Thank you.

This guy could sell any keyboard instrument. So beautiful!

piano sounds great.

I'm sold. I must have one. Thanks for posting this excellent demonstration. Very much appreciated!

If you are a professional pianist looking for something to play/practice on when away from the Steinway, this may not be what you’re looking for. The MX88 has a keybed that works well with piano, EP, synth and other voices pretty well, but none stupendously. You can spend a lot more to get a great graded hammer-weighted velocity-sensitive keybed if that is really important to you. If you are a generalist musician looking for a good all-around instrument at a decent price, take a close look at this board. When he did the orchestral brass, I heard the intro to FFAF.

wonderful sound quality😍😍

This board feels pretty damn good and it sounds crisp too. Best affordable keyboard available today imo.

1:18 Great great playing and sound!

I have one of these, AND IT'S WELL WORTH THE 1200 BUCKS, it has hands down the best sounds of any keyboard!

WTF!!! That sounds gorgeous man! Im in love with this keyboard😍

yeah im buying this next week.

I bought this keyboard last year my first I love it

I LOVE my MX! -Best Grand Piano sound out there!

Thanks ... love your playing

Well done Blake ! :)

This is great a cool instrument!

love my new MX88

amyzing demo well done

I'm still rocking my ancient Yamaha MM6 from 2007. It's time for an upgrade.

You play beautifully

I've got my eye on this one great price $999 pretty much everywhere

Pink Floydesque Psychedelia at 14:00. Brilliant.

Not a bad board for the price. Yamaha needs to do this: Put the Reface CP panel on top of an 88-weighted key board like this. Charge $799 for it. Game over, for the competition. I don't know why they haven't yet done that.

wow nice. looks great.

Works lovely with AurioPro and Cubasis2 on iPadPro. I have a Blue MX49 [still miss buying a White] and plan to buy either MX88 or MODX8 !! Still, MX is SO easy to just plug in and use and tons of FM fun !! #HHNET #YamahaRocks #MX49 #MX88

I have an MX61 and a MOX6, I really wish the different categories were as easily accessable on the fly in the MOX as they are in the MX :-(

I nearly fell asleep several times watching this and I was interested!

GOT ME LOOKING AT IT BUT I WANT DRUM PADS LIKE THE KORG KROSS HAS...I WOULD BUY BECAUSE OF THE SOFTWARE BUT I ALREADY HAVE THAT....NICE BOARD NICE MOTIF SOUNDS FOR A HOME STUDIO SET UP.....

HAPPY SYNTHESIZER!!!

9:46 very nice choir

His playing is so good, I had a hunch he had released his own stuff. I just read that he did "Jazz Piano for the Soul", but I haven't found it anywhere. Anyone know where I can find his stuff? It belongs in my home.

Wow!

Hello Blake, which are the main differences between MX88 and MOXF8? The hammer action is the same? which feels more like a real piano?

Wow you get a lot of instrument for 999. Better than owning an acoustic piano. A musician can practice with headphones at night. Much better user interface than the old equipment that required menu diving. The Apps don't do anything for me, I'd rather spend my time practicing and playing music.

It's basically exactly the same thing as the S90XS I have, 8 years later and at a a third of the price :)

Well after the SY77, might be my next synth...

Wow, this unit, what am I looking and waiting for? It is nice for gig. Finally, The Yamaha mx model offer 88 keys version. I'm so excited about that. So, I will skip for korg kross88 keys unit.

Blake very nice video, in the owners manual pages 29-30 it tells how to Changing Voices smoothly while performing but for some reason I can’t get it to work for more 2 settings, it shows the abilities to do 1-16. Could help me out? Thanks

Is this the next step up from Yamaha S08? I love mine and I have had it for 11 years, but looking to upgrade.

thanks for the demo, am in uganda - i love to have this great instrument, how do i get it - guide me.

hi can you use this as a controller for mainstage 3? if yes how is the setup done?

im a previous mx-61 and mx-49 user. Keyboards sounds now are just recycled, and they changed some features on the boards and add some but nothing really change. its part of business on all brands. i sold my fantom G7, and sold my motif XS, sold my moxf6, and i ended up with a kronos 2, and a roland ax-synth now. These are my main two boards aside from my casio px-5s digital piano i used at church. And im good now on my gears. And will never buy another keyboard unless my keybords will be broken or not gonna work anymore. i buy and sell and traded keyboards before and tried more than 50 keyboards. in two years time. From casio, nord, yamaha, roland and korg. Synths, rack modules, workstations and digital pianos and arrangers. And at the end of the day it depends on your budget and and your need. So get the board that will make u happy and dont listen to others opinion. i stop buying and selling now and focusing taking care of my 8 months old baby.

I have mines on the way

just like the DX7

Can you control the amount of pressure sensitivity and the pattern of arpeggios of sequencer pads?

Do the DAW controls work with Logic/Digital Performer/Protools besides Cubase?

Before reading the description, I jumped to the conclusion that "MX" meant a blending of "Montage" and "KX," not "Motif". Is Yamaha likely to create a model which contains these sounds in a slim, battery-operated, 61-note keyboard chasis that would compete with the Roland Juno DS61? Why the DX-100, instead of the 7?

This guy is so smooth with his playing

Hermoso

Blake looks like one of those guys you would want to hang out with.

Hi ! Thank you for this video ! I have a question : Is there a loudspeaker on this piano ?

I had a P-115 and an MX-49, sold them both for the MX-88 and haven't looked back. Love it, love it love it! Now, I have a question on editing voices. Rather than explain technically, I'll tell you what I'm trying to do: My band is covering Toto's Africa and I'm doing it note for note. I've got the keyboard split - the lower end is the brass pad that's perfect. The upper end has the pan sweet flute (can't remember exactly what it's called). I'm trying to add a glockenspiel or vibe to the flute sound to get that distinctive sound of the hook and the solo. I don't think I can layer an already split sound (either split or layer), so I'm trying to go into the edit parameters and see if I can add something to that flute sound (nothing in the presets does it). Any ideas?

I want Yamaha to make their version of Korg's SV-1 73 key. Analog interface with Yamaha sound.

Hello, please tell me, what the name of music you play on piano, at first part of video?

"Very Cool" review... :-)

i like mx88

Good...

I hope it can Also Connect with FL Studio ... That will make this Masterpiece Perfect .... But the One thing I don't like is the fact it doesn't come with it's own Speaker Embedded in it .... But oh well , I ma try and purchase it anyway

I don't have iPAD or any apple product. can I use FM features without it??

I don't have a DAW I just have nano studio. I want Reason and I need a controller. If I had the money I would buy a Kronos 88

Can someone tell me what songs he is playing? Theyre amazing

This is the younger Brother of Motif XS.

Now that I have my MX back I've been trying to figure out how to use the arpeggios for a guitar part. I can't find anything online that clearly displays this feature and the manual is vague at best. If there's anyone out there that can point me in the right direction it would be much appreciated.

Other than the FM Essential app, can the MX88 keyboard control other iPad synths such as Korg Gadget through the same USB input and have the audio come out through the MX88 as well?

Im trying to decide between the Yamaha MX88 and the Roland JUNO DS-88 - decisions, decisions

Yamaha MX88 vs Yamaha MOXF8 that's what I wanna see

Nice demo. I'm sold. Except it's a little too pricy for guys on fixed income. Maybe after a few more gigs...but! This synth is 5 years old already (it's May 2023). Price ought to come down, or they should have an updated version... I mean, it's 5 years old. I'm still rocking' my S80 from 2000, and aside for some patches losing voices (weird how a few patches that have 4+ voices and 1 of the voices no longer plays, so it's time for the replacement. I love the way it plays, but it's heavy as a tank on a battleship...), the instrument held up over 20 years and hundreds of gigs. I love Yamaha, and have had lots of the gear, since before the DX-7! Hey Yamaha, how about an artist sponsorship/ endorsement deal?? They ought to be trolling these boards for sales leads and product ideas. I got a million of them..

Looking for feedback...I am considering the MX 88 to replace shlepping my 60+ pound early model Motif for gigs. However when I last was told "this Yamaha.....whichever....has all the same great sounds as the MOTIF"...then I demo'd said keyboard.....the richness/polyphony was not there....hoping this one delivers but the demo above is not coming across well enough....so I'll have to go try it live. Looking for any feedback I can get for someone who has a snobby standard like me...That's why I continue to carry that monster around! Prior to that in younger days I had to carry both pieces of a CP 70 up to a 3rd floor apartment! oiy!

But how does it stack up against the Juno-DS88? That and the MOXF6 seem to be its closest competition.

So I want to learn how to play but I'm thinking this is a bit advanced. I just want to learn how to play music and record at home, I dont want to do any live performances or anything. Should I look for something more basic? I just don't want to spend too much money on something that I may not get the full use out of.

can somebody help me how to change the touch sensitivity of the mx88, i own both 88 and 49, i would love to have the touch sensitivity change, pls help thanks

Unlike the MoxF8, it doesn't look like the MX88 has any dedicated knobs for real time EQ control for live performance. The MX88 also doesn't appear to have any dedicated or at least assignable knobs for volume of control of parts in layers or splits either. It looks like with the MX88 one has to do menu diving and/or multiple button pushes to accomplish these very basic live performance tasks. For these reasons, even with the added workstation complexity and cost, I'd probably be inclined to go with the MoxF8 for live gigging.

Can someone help me with a question? How can I transfer a recorded song on a mox8 to a usb stick? It's got to be possible, but I just can't figure it out....

Thanks for this great video. Question about programming drums. I have a performance with Rock drums 017 set. In the middle of the song, I'd like to change the drums to be just a kick drum... Can I duplicate 017 and take out everything except the kick? ... I was thinking I'd have my performance with 017 drum pattern... Then on the fly I'd switch to a performance with the same instrument settings except with a different drum pattern (017, but just the kick part of it). ... This will allow me to continue to play melodic notes with left and right hand with the stripped down drum beat. Is this possible?

I have an old but great S90XS buts its just too heavy fro Live shows. Is this basically the same? Pianos and synths etc? But lighter?

Which one is better between the keyboard and Motif Xs 7?

What’s the name of the USB cable is that to connect to your computer?

Great demo! Please tell me what kind of speakers that you are using? Are they powered speakers and what is the minimum wattage for this powerful keyboard? Also can I get away with one speaker or or is it best to just have 2 speakers? Thank you very much. What a wonderful sounding piano! Also, proud to be a long time Sweetwater customer as well😊

Great video! Does this 'board have the ability to transpose, and is there an in/out for MIDI and not just USB?

Blake. I have both the MX88 and MX49. Is there any way to delete all 128 of the factory performances? None of them are useful to me and I'd rather have the memory slots for my own performance setups.

Please does this keyboard has inbuilt speakers to enable play without an external speaker? Thanks for helping.

Hello, can someone please help me with storing the tones in an order so that it would be easy to recall them.. It's been 6months since I bought the keyboard and I'm unable to understand how the tones are stored. Please help

What is the name of the Keyboard Amplifier you are using?

I have an mx88 and cannot get this piano tone. What settings are being used here? As far as cutoff /resonance etc? Mine seems to sounds muddy at times, especially during full band performances.

Just bought mx88, please I need to know what kind of speakers/sound system is required, thank you