New Yamaha Motif
 

Doesnt really excite me...

For a bread and butter ROMpler it would be great.

I just do so much with my PC/sequencer that I don't know if a workstation would be beneficial or if it would totally f$*k up my workflow.

It would be nice to have it as a means to have full capability without a PC/audio interface.

My ultimate synth like this would be this new Motif but with the ability to play Roland's SRX boards. Yamaha's expansion boards have sucked for a long time.

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only 128 of polyphony... like the es... I'm not happy at all.

I agree Lorenzo...it's not a very substantial update!

Im sticking with my Motif Rack

Hmm, looks interesting. Anyway, I don't need a workstation either but I've been looking at the yamaha s90 es keyboard which looks gorgeous. In fact I played the older S90 about 2 years ago and the keyboard feels amazing and I loved the piano sound. The new S90 ES has even better piano. I've also heard some really great pad sounds from the S90 ES. Anyway, I would also like to have the sounds from Korg Triton extreme and roland romplers. :D

A good thing about the s90 es is that it doesn't have a sequencer or sampler like motif workstations but it's just a high quality keyboard with motif sound engine + the good piano sound and it's cheaper than motif 88 key version.

For some reason workstations have lost all their appeal for me. At one point I even considered getting one, but when I really gave them a test ride I decided not to bother. Now I test drove EastWest Colossus and I think it's a bit better option for bread & butter.

Blehhhhh, Too bad yamaha is going the triton repackging route instead of innovating!

The kind of beastie that looks interesting if you use alot of stock rompler type sounds as well as synths. Would probably suit me well - have two romplers allready (Fusion 8HD and Motif ES rack) and do occasionally like to have a decent sounding piano.

It doesnt exactly make me feel any great urge to flog those two in favour of a new XS8 though (yes - i would need the 8 for the weighted keys to replace the HD8 for piano stuff)... Im sure it sounds better, but TBH - the two I have give me the kind of sound and function cover I need at this time and cost less than an ES8 between them.

For most of us lot - I cant see many of us being rompler fans beyond the usefulness of having stock sounds available that are not tied to a computer - and a module cover that nicely.

Actually I would probably be more in favour of an S90XS (ie an updated S90ES) than a XS8 as dont really use hardware workstation type functions, just the sounds and like a decent weighted hammer-like action sometimes.

Minimal information about all the new "namm" products :-(
New Korg unit with Karma Technology :
http://www.karma-lab.com/forum/showt...&threadid=8447
I don't belive in Timos "mini monster": korgforums.com/forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=21014&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15
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Roland new V-synth : http://www.roland.com/V-synth/2007NAMM/index.html