Yamaha Montage M Honest Review 1 Month Later
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- Опубликовано: 1 май 2024
- Yamaha Montage M Honest Review 1 Month Later It's not super loud or annoying.
But if you hear a little fan noise.
It should be normal and does not affect the sound.
There are a few things i would like to share on the Montage, Im still learning but thought i would point a few things out
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I love the M8X. I had a Motif ES years ago and always wanted to get another Yamaha board and I'm very happy with this especially with the included software version. I saw that Roland just gave the Fantom a big update with a Jupiter 8 and SH-101 emulation and im really hoping Yamaha is paying attention and gives us a similar update with a CS-80 emulation. That would be 🔥🔥🔥🔥
That would be really awesome 💯
We already have ANX and poly aftertouch in M8x....I play CS-80 like patches all day on my M8x now. What are you looking for? BTW, the Arturia CS80v and the Cherry Audio GX80 are readily available.
@@trstack I want to see a CS-80 on the touchscreen utilizing AN-X and poly AT to pull it off 💯 How would that not be great
@@smokey5100 No disagreement but the Montage M8x UI does not replicate instruments in the display like the Fantom. Not sure we would want to try and control the CS-80 paddles from a 7” Montage display vs a 27” 5k display on your Mac.
Yamaha: Montage M8x| Spectrasonics: Omnisphere, Keyscape | uhe: Diva, Hive2, Zebra2| Roland: Cloud Pro | Arturia: V Collection | NI: Komplete 14 | VPS: Avenger | Cherry: GX80 | G-Force: OB-E | Korg: Triton, MS-20
Yamaha: Motif XS8, Motif ES8, Motif8, KX-88, TX7 | ASM: Hydrasynth Deluxe| Roland: RD-2000, D50, MKS-20| Korg: Kronos 88, T3, MS-20 | Oberheim: OB8, OBXa, Modular 8 Voice | Rhodes: Dyno-My-Piano| Crumar: T2
@trstack That's actually one of my favorite parts of this board is that I don't have to look in pictures. They focus purely on the sound. Love this board.
NO Fan Noise here. I have the Montage M8x.
The original Kronos, on the other hand, was LOUD!
My Korg Kronos 2 is only audible during boot up, you should dust your fans and get better room temperature and less humidity. Korg Kronos hd1 engine ALONE out shines the montage in terms of professional live use still in 2024 no questions asked. M series uses a f*king stock clavinova power supply lmao as it's power supply. Garbage instrument with 0 2.0 steps above the original.
That is crazy. There are issues with the Fantom such as unstable polyphony and no time stretching in the sampler, but no fan noise. That said, the sonics of the Fantom are pretty stale, in comparison...maybe that has something to do with it.
I don't know if you would have weathered any better with Roland, especially with the timing of the "new" EX keyboards. Had you purchased a Fantom, you would have needed to go through the entire update process for the EX Upgrade. Shortly after, your new flagship would drop in value because Roland re-released the same exact hardware...just with everything pre-installed.
The universe spared you, my friend. My Fantom is worth $500-$1,000 less than it was a week ago, and we are still dealing with some of these same issues from 2019.
I heard quite a few people. Not too happy about the update process, but yeah, that's crazy. I'm definitely enjoying the board though 💯
@@PoliPopo That's good. It took about five months to really lock the Fantom down, and about a year before I began to explore a more advanced workflow. That said, I look forward to watching/hearing your progress on this machine, and appreciate the honesty. We need more truth about our equipment... especially on this platform 🦾💯
I have a kurzweil k2000s , and there is a fan in it. The synth was made in 1993, I have never changed the fan, nor has it been a problem for me.
I would imagine that it will be fine down the road.
Its a dope board 💯🎵 for sure
I have a Montage M8x since November 2023 and cannot hear any fan noise with nothing else turned on in my setup. What model Montage M do you have? Mine stays on 24/7 and I have yet to hear the fan.
M6 its quiet but its there
Doesn't affect the sound though
Not sure I get your “Honest 1 Month Review” when you lead with fan noise. I’ll state again, zero fan noise from my M8x, using a mic and/or stethoscope. Of course it doesn’t affect the sound unless you are recording the audio output of the Montage M via a mic within proximity of your fan which you would never do, correct?@@PoliPopo
@@trstack It's a great board. I definitely recommend it.
I try to speak highly of it, but also be honest. Best board. I've ever heard, but mine and a few other people have a little fan noise in it. I don't really mind it doesn't bother me but I was just being honest
Synth ON -> Amp / Speakers ON. Amp / Speakers OFF -> Synth OFF. Other than that good content.
open it up and replace it with the same sized noctua fan.
Poli waiting for you to get a Behringer Wing mixer.
Can you please do a tutorial how to connect the montage to the mpc step by step? 🙏🏻
This is what i have for now but ill do a step by step asap
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@@PoliPopo thanks much appreciated! Can you route 16 channels from the montage to mpc?
@@roderickalbus5818 I haven't tried personally, but I don't see why you couldn't.
I've got as high as five but haven't tried higher But i'm sure it can
Fans aren‘t really all that uncommon, at least in the boards I used, especially the more powerful Workstations. I had a Kurzweil K2600 that I really loved- that had a fan but it was loud too so I replaced it with one of the better computer fans that are as „noise free“ as you can get, and it worked fine.
Isn't super loud or anything outrageous The board does sound good, but yeah. Little Betty, fan noise.
Yo there should be a fan off option if you menu dive. If not please let me know in comments. Because that great and super expensive keyboard better come with a fan off option for when recording or it’s a bad thing. Other than that, we know that the montage comes with a plethora of dope ass presets and sounds.
Its a dope board and ill look more into it asap
Welcome to the family Poli. I think I said this like over 2 years ago to you when I told you about my Yamaha Montage, and praised you for your extensive knowledge about the Akai. I bet you also appreciate Akais approach to usablitiy and user-friendliness now more than ever, because you know - these worlds are GALAXIES apart.
Let me tell you, the investment you made is not a waste, I have one myself (the previous montage), and I got a good deal on it too. The Akai 61 is the one I use, because it's the most user friendly of the buch, we get stuff DONE with it. But there's this thing about the Montage - it's one of the most complex and advanced synths ever made, and it will probably go down in history as such. You know, it wasn't made for making a score on, it wasn't really made for a sequencer or a sampler, it's first and foremost one of the most high-end synths you'll ever own.
But it's a beast, it's complex, it got a lot left to be desired, and yes - it's not for everyone. But give it time. It took me 3 years to appreciate mine, and the build as you know, it's made to last forever. One of the devs where asked how long this one was expected to live, he said - in general 25+ years. So you won't have an instrument thats outdated so fast, it's absolutely freaking legendary when it comes to shaping insane high fidelity sound scapes, so - if you can afford to hang on to it, use it like the main "sound creator" tool, like use it to make amazing sounds you can re-sample with your AKAI's, and you will have the best partnership you could imagine.
@@joonglegamer9898 the only reason it sounds higher quality is they improved the internal dac. Doesn't compare to ANY vsts at all! Doesn't compare to dedicated daws or akai, doesn't compare to dedicated analog or groove synthesis 3rd wave and doesn't have analog filters. This keyboard is s**t, how is this keyboard so advanced or legendary when the kronos is still a better instrument that's being used off an ancient 20+ year oasys architecture being remixed and dumbed down as the nautilus in 2024. Trash instrument, steal the software plugin and return the synth lmao.
@@JohnnyADi Well, maybe you're more "pro" than me and can hear and know that. But for me it's also many factors. One big one is that it starts up in 15 seconds instead of 2-3 minutes on the Kronos. The other one is the numerous crashes Kronos have, still - I agree that the Kronos is an amazing instrument.
@@joonglegamer9898 my Kronos since like 2018 or 2019 has crashed MAYBE 3 times. So that's fake news. And who cares about startup, has nothing to do with the instruments quality or performance. As long as it boots up it works. I already have a montage and it boots up like 3 seconds faster than my akai mpcx, and I turn my Kronos on 90% more than the montage, because there's nothing the montage can do that the kronos can't. So the fact that a big factor is start up time tells me you have low standards. Youre just coping for a bad instrument. Keyscape sounds better than fmx. The only reason it sounds better on the montage M is because they have new dac chips from Texas instruments over the old akm ones. It's the same thing if I plug my computer into my $1700 interface as a dac and out through my $2000 ferrum oor to my presonus spectre s8's, or my $1500 flux mentor to my $2000 tungsten double sided headphones. And guess what, the sound quality I get is not only better, but I can actually upgrade it. Montage users both old and new are stuck with whats in the instrument.
Noire makes a better CFX grand than yamaha will EVER put in their synthesizers, and only their highest end digital pianos will have the level of flexibility and sound quality output that my $70 vst and multi thousand dollar audio chain has. The montage M uses a f*king repurposed clavinova power brick as it's Power supply! Open up your montage m yourself! My montage has a beautiful proprietary one that's not only easier to repair but looks absolutely beautiful.
Don't worry. Yamaha will make a cheaper plastic version. They will turn all their attention to that model. It will sound the same as the M. The fan will be gone then.
I'm actually pretty happy with it. It sounds amazing
I’d just redesign the heat transfers on it and use some copper runs. Done.
Hey Poli, cool you hear the fan too. My concern now is will that be a problem down the line far as burn out and replacement. since you said you saw that in the tech book. The board is Great, but the fan sound is annoying if your particular about unwanted phantom sounds in your studio. It's like ounce you hear it you can't unhear it. I guess as long as the music is loud it won't matter. At least I know now that I'm not the only one who hears it. I'm goanna ask some other channels if they hear it too.
Yeah, I had everything off in the studio, except for the montage. That's the only way I even noticed, but it's definitely there. As far as the life, I'm sure it'll last a lifetime.
But if that fan stops working,
That will be no good.
Please don't buy M6 & M7 by watching the demonstrations performed on M8x. M6 & M7 will never sound the same as they don't have Polyphonic Aftertouch. That was clearly a nonsensical decision by yamaha. Synth keys don't have PAT but only on a Hammer action. So stupid.
Yeah that's a badass machine in Portland at the guitar center. They have the big one and the little one so people actually play it. I love it but I can't justify the money right now for the small one is $3,500 but it's badass. It's worth every penny. I'll tell you that
Honest review, isn't worth it for original owners. Just get the plugin and boom your whole instrument is irrelevant. The power supply is a reused clavinova power brick strapped inside for the newer more expensive montage 2.0.
Noire vst makes a better piano for $70 and is equivalent to yamahas top of the line DEDICATED digital pianos, keyscape is still the best for electric pianos. It needs a fan for its 200x more powerful processor that isn't even being used to its max potential and for the entirely digital useless anx engine that STILL doesn't include analog filters. The ancient Korg Kronos hd1 engine is still better than their awm2 engine, which they didn't even use a dedicated chip for so you can only have 128 user voices STILL split with 128 factory preset voices.
Has extra lights, stole genos hardware interface, still isn't useful for musicians with other gear because the meris mercuryx and groove synthesis 3rd wave with an original montage and osmose expressive e already makes this synth 100% irrelevant unless you want an all in one simple dumbed down setup for live. Korg Kronos is still better.