Yamaha MOTIF XF6 61 Key Music Production Synthesizer

Yamaha Motif-XF6

 is the culmination of ten years of continuous Motif evolution. Yamaha has added more sounds, advanced music production features and are breaking new ground with 2GB Flash wave memory expansion capabilities that will set the new standard for keyboard workstations for years to come. The Motif-XF6 make use of the FSX keyboard which has a newly-developed mechanism to provide a smooth touch that is both comfortable to play and responsive to your touch. It's easy to play fast passages, including glissandos and trills. It is also worth mentioning that the keys are very quiet.

Yamaha Motif XF6 synthesizer workstation has a rich collection of instrument Voices that include piano, electric pianos, strings, wind instruments, orchestral sounds, guitars, basses, and drums, as well as a wide variety of vintage and modern synth sounds. Of special note are the detailed digital re-creations of two Yamaha grand pianos (a 9' CFIII and a 7' S6) that only an acoustic piano manufacturer could achieve. The reproduction in minute detail of even very subtle nuances results in exquisitely crafted piano Voices that will satisfy even the most demanding players.

Yamaha MOTIF XF6 tone generator was inherited from the MOTIFXS, it makes an 8-element-per-voice structure possible. Combined with Yamaha's XA, this 8-element structure allows you to achieve stunningly accurate acoustic instruments including expressive articulations that up until now have been difficult to re-create in electronic instruments. For example, you can recreate the natural legato of wind instruments, the key release noises of pianos and other instruments, guitar slides and harmonics, and the many different articulations for string instruments (spicato, tremolo and pizzicato, etc.). The AF1 and AF2 buttons on the front panel make it easy to control Voices with multiple articulations.

• 61 key FSX keyboard with initial and aftertouch
• 128 note polyphony
• Comprehensive high sound quality, including an enormous 741MB of waveforms
• The popular FSX keyboard let you express your passion for playing.
• A sophisticated 8-element synth architecture with XSpanded articulation and 18 different filter types let you shape your sound anyway you want and the 8 front panel knobs and sliders make it easy to do even in real time.
• 1664 Voices and 97 Drum Kits put more sounds at your fingertips than ever before.
• 512 Performances combine 4 Voices and 4 Intelligent Arpeggios so you can instantly create backing tracks with Yamaha’s intuitive Direct Performance Recording feature.
• A 16-track Integrated Sampling Sequencer and the built-in 128MB of sample RAM let you:
• Load new sample libraries
• Add Vocals and Guitars to your Motif sequences
• Slice audio loops to playback at any tempo
• Use Real Time Loop Remix to create new grooves Easily move back and forth between the loop-based Pattern Mode and tape machine-style Song Mode
• An integrated Yamaha Digital Mixer includes 3-band EQs for each part, 8 Dual Insertion effects, 2 System Effects and overall Master Effect and Master EQ that lets you create finalized mixes of your songs.
• An improved User Interface with many user-requested features like Tap Tempo, Drum Editing in Mix Mode, and Auto Mapping of samples plus a new customizable UI for selecting your choice of color and positioning of key displays.
• Direct-to-USB recording & playback lets you record your final mixes as CD-quality WAV files to any connected USB memory device, or play WAV files created on your computer back on the XF.
• Up to a massive 2GB of optional Flash Wave memory for loading Motif sample libraries, WAV/aiff files or your own samples. Because this is Flash Memory, once you've loaded a sound once, it's always in your Motif when you turn it on.

Keyboard
Number of Keys: 61
Type: FSX Keyboard (Initial Touch/Aftertouch)

Tone Generator
AWM2, with Expanded Articulation

Maximum Polyphony
128 notes

Multi Timbral Capacity
16 Parts (internal), Audio Input Parts (A/D, FW*) *1 stereo Part

Wave
741 MB (when converted to 16-bit linear format), 3,977 waveforms

Voice
Preset: 1,024 Normal Voices + 64 Drum Kits
GM: 128 Normal Voices + 1 Drum Kit
User: 128 x 4 (Bank 1: original, Bank 2 – 4: selected and copied from Preset bank) + 32 Drum Kits (No. 1 – 8: original, No. 9 – 32: selected and copied from Preset bank)

Performance
User: 128 x 4 (up to 4 Parts)

Filter
18 types

Effect System
Reverb x 9 types, Chorus x 22 types, Insertion (A, B) x 53 types x 8 Parts (up to 16 units), Vocoder x 1 (uses both Insertion Effect A and B blocks), Master Effect x 9 types (Preset settings for parameters of each effect type are provided as templates; total 320) Master EQ (5 bands), Part EQ (3 bands, stereo)

Samples
Up to 128 Waveforms (Multi Samples) Up to 256 Key Banks per Waveform Up to 512 Key Banks

Sampling Sources
Analog input L/R, Stereo output (Resampling) FW (available when the FW16E has been installed)

A/D Conversion
24-bit, 64x oversampling

D/A Conversion
24-bit,128x oversampling

Sample Data Bits
16

Sampling Frequency
44.1kHz, 22.05kHz, 11.025kHz, 5.5125kHz (Stereo/Mono) Sampling Frequency via FW (when the FW16E has been installed): 44.1kHz (fixed)
Sampling Memory Internal SDRAM: 128M

Sample Length
Mono: 32 MB Stereo: 64 MB

Sampling Time
44.1kHz: 6 min. 20 sec. 22.05kHz: 12 min. 40 sec. 11.025kHz: 25 min. 20 sec. 5.0125kHz: 55 min. 40 sec. *Mono/Stereo

Sample Format
Original format, WAV, AIFF

Note Capacity
Approx. 130,000 notes

Note Resolution
480 ppq (parts per quarter note)

Maximum Polyphony
124 notes

Tempo (BPM)
5 – 300

Song recording type
Real time replace Real time overdub (with the exception of the Pattern Chain) Real time punch in/out (Song only)

Song tracks
Pattern: 16 Phrase tracks Pattern Chain: Pattern track, Tempo track, Scene track Song: 16 sequence tracks (Loop on/off can be set for each track), Tempo track, Scene track

Songs
64 Songs Mixing Voices: 16 Voices per Song and up to 256 Voices for all Songs Mixing Templates: 32 for all Songs and Patterns

Patterns
64 Patterns (x 16 sections), Measures: 256 maximum Mixing Voices: 16 Voices per Pattern and up to 256 Voices for all Patterns Mixing Templates: 32 for all Songs and Patterns

Phrases
User Phrases: 256 per Pattern

Arpeggio
Preset: 7,881 types User: 256 types *MIDI Sync, MIDI transmit/receive channel, Velocity Limit, and Note Limit can be set.

Scene Memory
5 per Song

Sequence formats
Original format, SMF format 0, 1 (Format 1 load only)

Dimensions
Width 1,045 mm (41-1/8")
Height 122 mm (4-3/4")
Depth 391 mm (15-3/8")

Weight
15.1 kg (33.29 lb)

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