Yamaha Montage M6

The Yamaha Montage M6 at a glance:

With the Montage M6, Yamaha presents the latest Generation of the popular synthesizer workstation. At the same time, the M generation makes itself interesting to keyboardists, pianists and synth enthusiasts, as it shines with a selection of over 3000 high-quality sounds, has an excellent keyboard and allows detailed intervention in the sound. The 61-key FSX keyboard is naturally velocity-sensitive and provides a very good feel, and Channel Aftertouch is also implemented for finely dosed modulation of parameters. The newly designed control panel features several innovations that offer a much improved and more effective workflow and have a lot to offer in terms of performance. The arpeggiator is available for eight parts at the same time and is more than amply equipped with almost 11,000 presets. Thanks to the 16-track sequencer, no song idea has to remain undocumented. With a capacity of 128 patterns and 128 songs there is enough memory to complete the next stage season with the Montage M6.

In seventh synthesis heaven

At the heart of the Montage M is, of course, the digital sound generation engine, which now includes AN-X synthesis in addition to AWM2 and FM-X:

• The AWM2 engine offers an extremely successful sweep of music history with pretty much everything you'd expect in terms of sounds from a full-blown workstation. The sonic detail is realized with up to 128 elements per part so that super smooth transitions and sound progressions are given. This of course also benefits the included piano sounds.
  
• With the FM-X engine Yamaha's legacy of the cult synthesis of the DX-7 lives on. Once again, one draws from the full and has access to up to eight operators and 88 FM algorithms.
  
• The AN-X engine is fully dedicated to analog sounds, without wanting to be a copy of the in-house classic AN1x. The engine offers three oscillators with five waveforms each along with PWM, Hardsync and a noise generator. Two filters with ten filter types form the rich basic sound of the tone generators. This sound generation is rounded off with ring modulator, FM and waveshaper. Two ADSR envelopes and two LFOs are used for modulation.
  

Superordinately, there are 18 filter types that can be used in any way on the 16 parts. Yamaha sends the Montage M with proud 400 voices into the race. These are divided into two times 128 voices for AWM2 (128 voices each for preset and user waveforms), 128 voices for FM-X and 16 voices for the AN-X engine. The sound memory should be sufficient for now with 10 GB Preset waveforms and 3.7 GB flash memory for user waveforms. Ex works the Montage M comes with 3369 sounds, so there's something for everyone. Effects are known to be the salt in the soup, but in this case it may be a little more. Reverb (12 types), Variation (88 types), Insertion A (88 types), Insertion B (89 types) and Master (26 types) are available. Included are various Delay algorithms, modulation effects like chorus, Flanger and Chorus and also distortion effects. For each of the 16 tracks there is an EQ with 2 or 3 bands as well as a 5-band EQ for the master.

Professional connections

The back of the Montage M6 is pleasantly versatile. In addition to the keyboard, there are the foot pedal connections Expression, Sustain and twice Footswitch. This increases the expression possibilities at the keyboard with the usual pedals. MIDI is communicated via the In/Out/Thru connection trio as well as USB. This is perfect for those who want to run additional equipment such as a rack expander or DAW with the Montage M6. In its capacity as a workstation and performance synthesizer, audio inputs should not be missing, of course! On the input side, the Montage M6 shines with a pair of Stereo line inputs; for signal output there are two balanced stereo outputs with large jack. furthermore, audio is also exchanged with the DAW via USB. Basically, six input channels and, depending on the configuration, eight outputs with 192 kHz or 32 outputs with 44.1 kHz are provided for this. There are two USB device ports for expanding the memory and connecting additional keyboards and controllers.

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