botega wrote:sani
i am not a yamaha fan...
Why not? I don't have a problem with this. The point is in having a balanced view on things. I like the M3 for a lot of things, but it has some serious drawbacks, up to the amount that I actually had to sell it. So, I'm actually here for sentimental reasons.
regarding the Effectsection, since i never use the motif's hardware sequencer i don't care having only two insert effects per track, i use it mostly for live application and the results speak for itself - VCM compression and EQ are simply work better in PA system for me
in my studio i'm using only waves, uad and powercore effects.
How effects do sound to somebody can belong to the same question how a piano sounds to somebody. Personally, I hardly like what I hear on any PA system while playing live. Nothing sounds as good as on my studio monitors. I can understand that you like the vcm compression from the motif, but that you really hear a difference in the eq?
But than, on the other side, I remember that the rotary effect on my former motif es sounded like a chessy vibrato compared to the rotary effect on my former triton. Simply a matter of personal taste.
regarding the 6000 useless arpeggios... thety are totally useless lol! but you can create your own arpeggios if you like i prefer KARMA!
I called them useless because there is no tap tempo. For example, when my guitar player plays a latin solo, I'd like to use that great guitar arpeggios on the motif. But impossible because there is no tap tempo.
you can plug in a tap tempo midi device and you'll have a tap tempo feature if you like
And what midi device? I know that bad_mister on motifator suggested a mididriven tap tempo pedal which costs about 100 dollars or even more. So, I should pay 100 dollars for a pedal, just because the "idiots" can't understand that in a live station neither the arpeggios nor bpm based effects are controllable.
The same applies to the sustain pedal. If you have the wrong one, you have to spend even more money.
korg EXB 256 looks like a marketing trick, it cost a lot here while simple
1gb dimm sdram pc133 cost a lot less...
Yes it does. But, if you have to buy a new sustain pedal and if you have to use a tap tempo midi pedal, you'll spend the same amount of money!
go roland!!!..... LOLzzzzzzz
Uuuuh, let's not start on Roland. I own a Fantom G. To make mistakes which Roland made and makes on its workstations, you either have to hate your customers or you have to hate your customers. There is not a single feature on that machine, for which I would say that it's done in the proper way.
Just look their last os update. They put after two years some new sounds on it (what the hell have the sounds to do with os update) and they put one half baked feature. And for them, that one feature justifies the jump from 1.3 to 1.5.
Roland certainly knows how to make good samples and multisamples, but for christs sake, they don't know how to make good workstations.
Those idiots removed the numeric buttons from the original fantom, and now, 4 versions later, you have to use the pads to dial in numbers. But before you have to turn the "numeric mode" on. And than off to use the pads for other functions. Imagine being on stage and pressing the numeric mode button on and off all the night.
I'd better shut up now.
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