... on the KETRON units, a style has 10 parts/tracks. Are you saying 10 outputs where you can have each part of the style



record to an individual track on an DAW? E.g on the SD1, you can route drums to output1, Bass to output 2, Chord3 to output 3 and lead/right hand voice to output 4 (but you would want to separate the 2 drum tracks and the 5 chord1-5 tracks), right? Now on output 4, even if you layer 3 voices, ALL will come out of out 4 (but if I read you correctly, you're saying have each of the layered voices coming out on a separate track in this scenario - which translates into 10 physical outputs - correct?)

Its 10 mono channels for the modx, and 4 in..
Making it 5 stereo and 2 stereo in..

The montage has 32 and 8..

And yes on the montage you can record 16 stereo parts directly over usb with 16 bit 48khz digital audio... or 4 parts with 96khz/24bit...all paralel at the same time...also since 2.5 with one button push all your controll are allocated to the daw...

The montage/modx will also functiom as a vst controller.. and inside your daw, you will see the montage or modx as a VST.. very very userfriendly...

With the audio over usb inputS(which are the outputs for the pc, it functions as an audio interfface for pc...

If you want full integration with a pc.. this is the easiest way to go... no hardware requirements (except a fast usb 2 port interface) just software...

The kronos has this to, but its not stable anymore and a bit laggy since korg did some software updates..

This is the a one reason why i am considering a montage to combine it with the sd90 and my macbook... a setup like this, offers much much more then a Genos.. combining the best arranger styles and interface with the most powerfull sample engine and fm engine and the best masterkeyboard in the world...(connecting the sd90 trough the analogue audio in of montage even runs my sd90 sound trough the yamaha master dsp effects if i opt to)

For the price of the Genos, one should expect that everything yamaha has to offer in the keyboard department is inside the instrument..

Bachus: When running a SD9 through a Montage...would those sounds output through the Montage audio interface?

Thanks,
jingleman

A stand-a-lone recorder is always the best. It's existence is just to record. The same for midi recording.

They have brought a new Internet, phone, TV, system, gate entry provider into my development. Because it is all under one control they have come to my home 11 times to adjust and repai.

When we make it to complicated we create more problems.

Just my opinion, John C.

A stand-a-lone recorder is always the best. It's existence is just to record. The same for midi recording.

John: I agree that recording to a standalone recorder is easy. The problem comes in when you want to record multiple audio tracks simultaneously. To record say..10 live audio tracks from an arranger, you would need 10 physical outputs on your arranger and a recorder that allows 10 audio inputs.

With Yamaha's built in audio interface...you can record 10 separate live audio tracks to your computer DAW through one single USB cable.

jingleman