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I bought this model MOTIF ES6 4 months ago. it costed me 1700 euros.
It is not that difficult to learn , I like the manual , I cannot understand what people are find so hard. IT has however a diffirent kind of logic than anything else. A kind of Logic that takes time to learn but is better. I have been using sof for 9 years now and All I can say that the guys at YAMAHA now how to build a highly useful interface.
The level of depth of this instrument is amazing. A huge plus is it capability to accept up to 1 GB RAM. I have bought 512MB RAM which costed me 70 Euros. That mean that you easily exampand its sound palete almost 10 times!!!!
The only downside is the very slow save and load function for usb flash. Too slow. It has been fixed in MOTIF XS.
The sounds are very very good for 175 MB. The weak ones is Brass and Organ. The amazing ones are pads,lead,sound effects, synths,pianos, electric pianos and drums.I compared the electronic presets of MOTIF ES and VIRUS TI and i can say MOTIF wins hands down. Virus may be an exellent synth for creating new sounds but its sounds especially its pads presets are not very good.
The accoustic sounds of MOTIF are from ok to very good. The weak ones are Brass and Organ. I still think that soft samplers are better in this , especially if they are several GBs long. Of course here come the 1GB RAM of MOTIF ES to compensate which means you can throw in any amount of samples you want.
Another huge plus is www.motifator.com , a huge community of ... actually a planet for MOTIF!!!You will find anything in this site , it is just worth to buy the motif only for this site.
Of course the built quality is excellent and its keys are the best in the market.
Obviously you must hear it to see it it right for you but , please do not forget to use the excellent effects and arpeggios they are on the best things of MOTIF.
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