Kier Darby

The Yamaha Steinberg USB Driver is a vital part of getting Yamaha hardware working with your computer, but installing it on macOS can be challenging due to the need to edit the computer's security policy. The driver is required for USB communication between MONTAGE / MONTAGE M / MODX and your computer, to allow your DAW to send and receive multi-channel digital audio, and multi-port MIDI, including the functionality of the DAW Remote. On modern Macs, this driver requires changes to the macOS security policy before it can operate. Fear not, because this tutorial will take you through the entire process and ensure successful results. Note, driver version 3.1.7 is tested and working perfectly with macOS 15 and the Apple Silicon M4 family of processors.

The MONTAGE M allows performance PARTs outside of the keyboard control group to arbitrarily set their MIDI tx/rx channel, and if that were the only change from the MIDI implementation of the classic MONTAGE and MODX, everyone would be happy. But it's not. MONTAGE M8x, M6 and M7 dramatically change the design of the ZONE system, which was intended to allow PARTs to control MIDI-connected instruments, but some of the changes massively reduce the capabilities and flexibility users have come to expect from MONTAGE family synthesizers. This video begins with a look at how the MIDI implementation for the MONTAGE family has developed, and then looks at the problems that MONTAGE M introduces. If you already know everything about MIDI on the classic MONTAGE, jump to 06:52 . Please join me in lobbying Yamaha via Ideascale and any other means to ask for a firmware update to restore the power and flexibility that MONTAGE M has lost compared to MONTAGE and MODX. Ideascale links: ...