Unwanted changes to the MIDI implementation for Yamaha MONTAGE M! Features lost compared to MONTAGE and MODX.

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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:

  1. MIDI transmission implementation is needlessly limiting. Easy fixes possible via firmware
  2. Revert behaviour of Zone/External switch to allow program changes AND tone generator connection
  3. M8X - replace the missing 'Arp MIDI Out' switch that classic Montage and MODX had
  4. No MIDI output on global MIDI I/O channel when any external parts are present

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