Anyone who has used the Yamaha MOTIF keyboards can attest to the crisp sound and incredible effects of this great synth. Hearing our requests and delivering, Yamaha has produced the MOTIFRACK for those of us who could deal with a few less keyboards in our lives.
In a nutshell, the MOTIFRACK is basically the MOTIF keyboard with 2 additional Preset Voice Banks and 256 User Editable Vocies (Twice as many as the MOTIF keyboard). MOTIF keyboard voices can also be loaded into the MOTIFRACK via MIDI. The expanded 128 note polyphony and effect insert options are also a nice touch not found in the MOTIF keyboards. In the 16 part multi-timbral mode, the MOTIFRACK offers 4 voices with their own 3 band eq.
The 6 outputs (stereo set and 4 individual outs) are a very nice touch, as well as coaxial and optical digital outs. There's also some interesting software bundled with the MOTIFRACK which allows the user to have nearly infinite control over the voice editing and MIDI capabilities. The MOTIFRACK also comes with 5-pin DIN as well as USB MIDI connectivity. There's also a nice big LCD display to keep this powerful synth from being an editing nightmare.
Here's what Yamaha has to say about their MOTIFRACK synthesizer:
""Perhaps the most requested Yamaha product of the last year has been a rack mount module version of the award winning Motif synthesizer. Yamaha probably could have just scaled the Motif down into a rack version but they wanted to take Motif technology to the next level. So the new rack is not just affordable, it uses a newly designed sound chip that includes expanded polyphony (128 Notes) and inserts effects (4 Inserts in Mix Mode). The Motif Rack is perfect for both Motif owners who want to expand the power of their Motif system or those who already have plenty of other keyboards and want Motif sounds in a convenient rack mount size.""
Official specs on the MOTIFRACK:
Features:
128 notes of polyphony
Preset Voices: 896 normal voices (incl. GM bank), 65 drum kits
User Voices: 256 normal voices, 32 drum kits
Motif Effects plus: Newly designed Reverb algorithm, 4 insert effects and 3-band EQs per part in multi mode
Stereo OUT, 4 individual OUT, Digital Out (optical and coaxial)
USB-MIDI, MIDI IN, OUT, THRU
MSPS plug-in slot x 2
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