Bert Smorenburg Motif XS NAMM '07 Demo

Bert Smorenburg demonstrates the features of the Yamaha MOTIF XS7 Music Work Station at the NAMM 2007 show. (Video courtesy of Motifator.com).

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Yamaha
• Motif
• XS
• Music
• Workstation
• Synthesizer
• Keyboard
• MIDI
• Sequencer
• Drum
• Programming
• Vocorder
• Sampler
• DAW

[RGMultimedia]

I am having problem with my FC3 sustain piano because it's delaying too much the sounds. How can I play or tune my keyboard (piano sounds) without using the sustain pedal?

[drmidi2007]

The FC3 should not delay your sounds. It should only sustain your keyboard's notes as they are played. This pedal "half-damps" the sounds when depressed approximately halfway. As for tuning, the pedal does not have any affect on this as tuning is set from the master utilities page, (A=440, etc.). Connect your FC3 pedal before switching on the SX. Do not use the pedal until the system is fully booted. When booted, the SX looks to see what pedals are connected, & this is a good practice.

[RGMultimedia]

What I meant is the FC3 is sustaining my sounds too long, I guess it's because I don't know how to use it properly. As tweaking the Piano sounds, I wanted to tweak it (sustain) so that I don't use my sustain pedal while playing

[drmidi2007]

The FC3 pedal should only sustain the notes being played for as long as you have it depressed with your foot (all the way down), and no longer than that. If you depress it about halfway down, then it will act like the sustenuto pedal does on an acoustic piano and "half-damp" the notes of the piano, accordingly. If you are holding down the pedal and not releasing it (as some people do with an acoustic piano) then notes will sustain longer than they should in a musical context.

[drmidi2007]

As for "tweaking" the piano sounds so that you don't have to use the pedal, you could always edit the sound envelope parameters so that the "sustain" part of the ADSR (Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release) amount is longer, but then you loose control as far as making notes of a shorter duration, so although this edit is possible, I don't really suggest that you do that. I suggest that you learn to use the sustain pedal properly, just as you would with any acoustic piano.

[drmidi2007]

So, the next question you would have is, "How do I use the sustain pedal properly?" (I would assume that would be your next question, that is!) My method of using the sustain pedal correctly (on any keyboard) is to release the pedal (if it is depressed) while playing new notes, and then applying (or depressing) the pedal to grab these new notes and thus sustain them. Then release the pedal again just before the next set of new notes are to be played, and depress again to hold these right after.

[drmidi2007]

Within this scenario, think of your pedal going up just before your fingers go down onto the keys, and then the pedal goes right back down just after these keys are played to hold these notes just before your fingers release the keys. You can also play more "legato" and hold notes longer with your fingers in order to sustain them manually (meaning, "by hand"). However, I find it difficult to emulate a true piano sound on any digital keyboard without any sustain pedal being used at all.

[SynthieFreak]

I know this is quite old but sill love watching it.

Bert just is the best in presenting yamaha keys.

[NikitaLemonjam]

BRAVO!!!

[RGMultimedia]

Just coming from a choir practice and played my MOTIF XS as filling (bground) Organ, it sounded great but had I had no monitior box to listen to it properly :(