Hello everyone For some time I have been thinking of buying an m8 montage.. I own numerous keyboards including several Yamaha.. Unfortunately I have been suffering from major back problems for a few years and carrying around my equipment for live shows has become prohibitive for me.. Lately I use a...

I'd advise against skipping any of these. Yamaha often fixes a lot of 'undocumented' issues in these minor updates. In this particular case they fixed a problem with MIDI ports not showing up all time.

The funny thing is that you can play and hold a note or chord(s) on the M and a received program change will be implemented immediately.

Go figure.

Didn't miss it... It was released on September 13th of this year!

When playing a WAV file as part of a Montage M performance, I've noticed that any Program changes I send while that WAV file is still playing are ignored by the Montage M. Is this expected behavior? This can be a problem trying to quickly change from one performance to another using MIDI since you c...

Derek wrote: ↑Mon Aug 26, 2024 7:14 am Thanks for upvoting

Excellent idea .... Going over there right now and give it another vote.

Well done!

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Oggfish wrote: ↑Wed Aug 28, 2024 12:22 am You can use Sample Robot Montage version and use it in the M. It works fine for the time being.

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Yamaha advertise that the new Montage is high definition. Did you notice, happy new owners, this improvement with your ears? Specially for strings orchestra and choirs, compared to the first edition of Montage? I am curious as there is not so much technical information about that. And for the super...

I just read in the official Yamaha synth forum that this crash issue has been confirmed by Yamaha support and that the development team is looking at it.

Thanks for finding and reporting this!

Personally, I've found that optimizing your power and performance settings, disabling ACPI battery driver (if you're using a laptop) and also disabling your built-in display driver in favor of a higher performance graphics card (or chipset) is sufficient. Putting your PC in Airplane mode while using...

I have no issues with ESP in Cubase on PC "But it works on my box..." ESP installed okay on my laptop, but I couldn't even run one instance without crackling and audio issues. It's an i7 with 16 gigs of memory, so while that's not a monster it should be tough enough. However, in fairness,...

I'll probably never forget the experience of sitting down at a real grand piano (in a music store) and playing a piece of music I'd only ever played on a keyboard synth. The physical resonance of the actual piano strings just washes over you. I couldn't believe it was me actually making that incredi...

Grab (or print) a copy of the Yamaha Essential Knowledge Guide and read it while sitting at your M. You can follow that up with the Yamaha New Features Guide.

https://yamahasynth.com/learn/news/mont ... dge-guide/

Even though it uses a 24-core CPU, it still produces pop noise. I only used 1 midi channel. This is still a beta version. Sorry I was remiss not posting about this sooner. If you're running the ESP under Windows then you'll want (need) to optimize the Windows host machine to handle real-time audio....

It's possible of course but if you rely on scenes, you may not have quick enough access to select these on the ESP laptop screen (assuming it's touch compatible). Also, you'll lose quick access to the Live Set programs as they are on a different, non-overlapping ESP window. The last thing that comes...