http://www.yamahasynth.com/products/synthesizers/motif_xf/


and it's Black too !!!!! Yeah!!

Looks very slick and gorgeous.

It's how I'd love all their future Arranger/Workstations to look as well. If the T4 looked like this, I'd be very tempted to upgrade.

That silver is a bit old hat now.

Danny

2GB expandable Flash RAM, giving you up to 3GB Ram total

ability to sample your favorite VST's to RAM

now that's what i'm talking about

i just wish Ketron would allow for this much memory on their AUDYA's

Well what do ya' know. I see Yamaha kept the Motif name after all.

Black is back and a refreshing change I might add. No word on the price but I will take a guess and say a couple to three hundred more than a comparable XS. As an example the current Motif XS7 is $3,199 (I know.. ridiculous huh?) and so with the new XF7 roughly priced around $3,499 ( I know.. ridiculous huh?) There are additional sounds plus over a thousand new waveforms plus a new user interface that might actually prove hands down better than the current XS user interface which does have a very high learning curve I must say.

I'm sure many Yammie fans will upgrade their existing Motif XS because Yammie is dangling the carrot stick in front of them and the incremental updates on their new Motif XF will probably prove sufficient to entice many of them to bite the carrot - or is that "bullet". Sorry, I'll pass though. After listening to the demos they really didn't inspire me a whole lot although the strings sounded pretty good. The Sax kinda sucked though and I'm surprised Yammie would feature that particular Sax on this their groundbreaking demo introduction for the new XF line.

If I didn't already have an excellent workstation i.e. my Fantom G7 I would probably think very seriously about getting the new Motif XF. The XF7 is only a couple pounds heavier than my Fantom G7 so that's not really an issue. If Yamaha happens to list the XF7 at $3,500.00 it would be $1,000.00 MORE than what I paid for my Fantom G7 though. Uh... I don't think so. Again though, if I didn't already have a great workstation then the new Motif XF would surely be something to consider in my opinion.

All the best,
Mike

This leaves audya in the dust !

The King of all Workstations! As Always!

The issue is not how much memory you have in you arranger, the issue is how good it is loading samples.
Long time ago I owned a Tyos2 that I expand to 1 GIG of memory. I purchase some piano samples from James and it took the Tyros2 1 HOUR to load a sample !!!
I think that the best arranger ( I am not including here workstations) to load samples or third party sounds are the Korg PA800/PA2x.

Dnj,

how is this, if this XF is NOT your typical arranger keyboard with real time accomp./chord changes?

can't compare apples to oranges my friend

Machetero

according to demov. The sounds loaded. Samples etc. Stay in RAM. For instant access. No need to reload
so you load once only your favorite 3 gb of sounds.

How many Piano's do we need, how many sax's, horns, strings, and synth sounds. I have a Motif xs and it would take more than a lifetime to use the sounds that are loaded from the factory. We buy a new keyboard, go through the banks of presets, pick about 20 to 30 of the ones we like most, put them in our favorites list and every great once in a while go through all the banks of sounds again to see if any thing we like was missed the first time around, then in a few months do it again. Then they come out with a new model with two times more megs and guess what? Gotta have it. Take it home and go through the same process. More sounds than the old model but the sound remains the same. No better than what we already had, but the new color and finish somehow makes it worth it. Been there too many times so I'm not going again.