Tech News: Yamaha moX 6 & 8 Synthesizers

Yamaha has introduced two new synths at Musikmesse ‘11, described as offering “heavyweight professional performance with lightweight price tag” – the Yamaha moX 6 and moX 8 music production synthesizers. In other words – the Motif XS Sound Engine on a budget. Both models offer over 1200 voices and over 350 MB of waveforms from the Motif XS. These sounds can be edited with Yamaha’s XA (Expanded Articulation) technology and their Virtual Circuitry Modeling capability. Both models are designed to be ‘complete’ music making instruments, with a real or step time multi track sequencer, combined with 6720 arpeggiator patterns. Other notable features include bundled YC-3B Organ Emulator soft synth, Steinberg Prologue analog synth, Cubase AI and fully-weighted (moX 8 ) pr semi-weighted (moX 6) keys.

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