Kier Darby

I have just finished publishing a video series documenting all the performances that are new to Yamaha MONTAGE M, up to the latest firmware 2.10.1. Note that these videos do not contain the many thousands of performances inherited from the classic MONTAGE and the MOTIF series before it. I thought it would also be useful to have a comprehensive index of all these performances so that people can jump instantly to any of them for reference purposes, so here it is! Click the category buttons above the list to jump directly to the list of performances in that category. Yamaha MONTAGE M New Performances (up to firmware 2.10) Piano Keyboard Organ Guitar Bass Strings Brass Woodwind Syn Lead Pad/Choir Syn Comp Chromatic Perc Drum/Perc Sound FX Musical FX Ethnic Piano Piano / Acoustic C7 Grand Piano / Acoustic C7 Piano / Acoustic Imperial Piano / Acoustic Nashville C3 Piano / Acoustic Nashville Vin...

While lots of MONTAGE M owners have been following my Demystifying MONTAGE and MODX video series , there have been various requests for a MONTAGE M specific series, and I’m happy to announce that the first few of videos from the new series have now been published. To date, there are videos covering: Getting Started: Finding Sounds, Live Sets and Category Search Playing Performances: Arpeggios, scenes and controls How to use EVERY button, knob and slider - a comprehensive tutorial Building a new performance: Loading parts, managing splits and rhythm patterns Using scenes to switch keyboard control, arpeggios and more Building a multi-keyboard performance with splits and layers Integrating MONTAGE M with Logic Pro Polyphonic aftertouch for MONTAGE M6 and M7 How to upgrade MONTAGE M firmware to 2.10 More to come soon!

I have published a brand new guide to getting the most out of your Yamaha MONTAGE M with Logic Pro. This tutorial will guide you through initial connection and configuration, project setup, recording MIDI, stereo and multi-channel audio, sending program change events to the MONTAGE M, playing virtual instruments and using external performance parts, MIDI routing, the DAW remote and how to use the E.S.P. virtual MONTAGE M in the most resource-efficient manner. Even if you are well versed in how to work with the classic MONTAGE and MODX in Logic, or if you have watched my original video series, there are a number of important differences in the MIDI handling that warrant a video dedicated to MONTAGE M.