Yamaha motif es sounds free download

Hence, ES offers voice polyphony more than double that of the original , redesigned effects and EQ, even more pattern-generation capability from the arpeggiator, and an operating system that seems generally smoother and faster. More fundamentally, perhaps, there is also a new synth engine. Subjectively, the filters seem to me to have a more 'analogue' feel — more than the average sample-based synth — and the EGs are very responsive. Many offer specialised, performance-based samples for example, guitar string squeaks and harmonics which are combined in the factory presets to provide voices that produce many of the signature effects of the instruments being simulated more on this later.

Also more numerous are the factory Voices: presets in six banks, and 64 factory drum kits, plus a General MIDI sound set and user Voice memories and 32 user drum kit locations.

That's a lot more Voices than on the original Motif! Strangely, for an enhanced instrument, a number of features have gone missing, the most odd of which on UK-bought instruments, anyway is onboard sample RAM! Yes, in order for your new sampling synth workstation to sample, you'll first have to buy some RAM. To be fair, RAM prices are volatile in the UK at the moment, and it must have been tricky for Yamaha to work out costings that included RAM, but it still feels like an expense is being passed on to the customer so the price of the ES can be kept down.

Other features — such as the option to add Yamaha's PLG synth-expansion boards and the ability to use the ES as a sophisticated master keyboard or real-time control surface — remain from the original Motif, albeit with subtle enhancements here and there. Look quickly, and you'd be forgiven for thinking there were no physical differences between the original and the new Motif.

The striking silver livery, the central LCD, and the number and layout of knobs, sliders, buttons, not to mention the front-panel screening and connector complement, is practically identical. But there are differences, some subtle, some significant. One of my favourite changes is the move to big chunky buttons for the sequencer transport controls — very satisfying. There's also more direct, front-panel control over where the real-time knobs and sliders are routed.

And I was glad to see a rather Korg-like ribbon controller join the pitch-bend and modulation wheels as a source of real-time control. A few extra buttons allow access to the extra factory preset Voice banks and a couple of other functions. Operationally, existing Motif owners will be on familiar ground — they'll just find more choices in some places and new options in others. Newcomers may have a small struggle, and won't be aided by the manual.

It appears to have all the necessary bits, but like many Yamaha manuals I've experienced recently, it is not organised in the most accessible or friendly way.

Nor is all information usefully indexed or referenced in what appears to be three tables of contents. If you find yourself regularly looking for a particular fact or operation, get out a yellow highlighter and some post-it notes and customise the manual to suit you — it works for me!

Luckily, the Motif is fairly logical to operate: just pay attention to what you do, particuarly paying attention to the display options that line up with the 'softkeys' laid out under the LCD.

The display does get rather busy sometimes, so that it can be tricky to see where you can move a cursor, and in some cases such as when selecting insert effects , you're not even sure if the cursor is in the right place.

Quite often, though, the important information you're looking for such as how much sampling time is left can be found by pressing the 'Information' button! It's just under the LCD. There's connectivity galore on the Motif ES: two USB ports, three five-pin MIDI connections, dual footswitch and pedal inputs, twin stereo analogue outputs one main pair, and one assignable , headphones connection, and a stereo analogue input with associated gain control.

There's no SCSI. The back panel shows many interesting changes, reflecting perhaps the direction taken by the market for external storage devices. It is not possible, however, to write data to blank CDs in a CD writer. This can be restored on an ES if you buy the optional AIEB2 board which also adds digital ins and extra analogue outs. As with the original Motif, there are three instruments in the ES range, and all three are internally and functionally identical, with the same knob, slider and interfacing collection, as well as the same synth-expansion options.

The only way the three ESs differ is in their size and their keyboards: ES6 and ES7 have a plastic velocity- and aftertouch-sensitive synth-action keyboard, of 61 and 76 notes respectively, while the sexy Balanced Hammer Action acoustic-piano simulation is saved for the note Motif ES 8.

Actually, there is a fourth instrument in the range, and it's a bit of an orphan: Yamaha are apparently keeping the original Motif 6 on their books as an entry-level workstation option, though obviously this instrument is rather different from the ES instruments it joins.

It's practically impossible to summarise or round up the sound of the Motif ES — there are just too many Voices and Performances! But I did develop a couple of favourites. I liked the acoustic pianos, and they fit pop and jazz contexts nicely, as most Yamaha pianos do. The acoustic, electric and synth basses are also varied and playable, the latter particularly revealing the ES's solid bottom end.

The ES's guitars are also worthy of note, the acoustics especially offering a bright, upfront sound. The winds and brass are less varied, and the orchestral strings are OK for basses, cellos and some ensembles, but the violas and violins were not so good — they seldom are on an all-round instrument such as this. However, the drum samples are definitely worth a compliment; Yamaha's drum sounds always seem to have the right balance of useable real kit samples, processed examples, bites from drum-machine history and mangled kits aimed at more contemporary music idioms.

Purely synthetic sounds — leads, pads, textures — pour out of this instrument with presence and depth. They're also instructive as to what you, the user, will be able to create under your own steam. The rawest, squelchiest, most '80s-sounding presets work really well and are often teamed up with drums and apreggiations in fun Performances.

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Dozens of presets are provided, featuring a wide variety of tones and drawbar settings. The set includes also 4 complexe Demo-Traxx , which are very useful as starting point for music productions.

This ensures the highest level of sample-based analog sound. The AN-board will be missed nor more! Several volumes will include all important synth-categories time after time. Opposite to many other sample-based synthbanks you will not find completely sampled presets of popular synths. Instead there are complexe waveforms compareable with preset waves, which are a great base for making new synthsounds using the soundengine of the MOTIF ES.

But you can load alternate version without samples, if you have not DIMMs installed yet. Playability and suitability of the voices was tested by several live-musicians and prepared for perfect live- and studio usability. Most voices are new programmed. Some standard-instruments are optimized versions of preset-voices. This allows very easy making of individual Live-performances by user. Installation of optional DIMMs is not needed. Overview of voice-types:. Additional there are 20 more drum-arpeggios for Preset-drumkits.

All drum-arpeggios are also available in Standard MIDI files format for using with internal or external sequencer. So your synthesizer does not have to be equipped with RAM expansion in order to load the sounds. In the period I created voices on my Yamaha Motif Classic. This collection of sounds which has been available on Motifator. This voice collection which has been available on Motifator.

From March until December , I created a second collection of voices on my Motif XS, which is now made available in the middle of this page.