The Yamaha MOTIF is one of the finest-sounding workstation keyboards around. Built off the powerful AWM2 sound engine that’s at the core of the MOTIF ES, the Yamaha MO8 88-Key Music Production Synthesizer puts that MOTIF sound well within reach of most musicians, without sacrificing functional design or sonic power. The Yamaha MO8 Music Production Synthesizer Workstation is a direct descendant of the pro-level MOTIF ES and features the same balanced hammer-action keyboard technology and mechanism as the Yamaha S90 ES. . The Yamaha MO8 boasts the same powerful synthesis engine as the industry standard MOTIF ES, so you can show up to any gig, session, or production date with your MO8 in hand knowing you’re packing some of the most explosive sounds in the biz. Also on board are the impressive analog-synth modeling capabilities of the MOTIF ES. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a semi-professional musician, performer, or songwriter.

Yamaha MO8 provides a full set of authentic sounds and comprehensive music-making features. Percussion sounds spanning from life-like studio kits to cutting edge hip-hop beats are at all your disposal. The MO’s array of solid sliders and knobs provide assignable, real-time control over every instrument parameter, as well as over the comprehensive DSP effects. The song sequencer on the Yamaha MO 8 includes a pattern mode, phrase building, and a one-key arpeggiator with as many as 1700 sequenced phrases. You can control your favorite sequencer software from the keyboard itself via USB. With Studio Connections “Audio Integration”, you can even turn your MO into a Virtual Synth complete with phase accurate latency compensation and add VST effects directly to your MO inside your VST mixer.

Yamaha MO8 Synthesizer Video

A four-oscillator sound-generator architecture, multi-band filter, and dynamic envelope controls effortlessly recall the entire history of modern musical synthesis. The Yamaha MO8 is compatible with Studio Connections; allows comprehensive hardware/software integration into music production system. And also through Audio Integration you can seamlessly assign and access the MO right from the sequencer. Yamaha MO 8 provides hundreds of voices, MOTIF ES’s EQs, compressors, choruses, reverbs, radical lo-fi, slicing, digital scratching and beat change FX to the MO8. The Yamaha MO8 can be effortlessly set up to control all basic DAW functions like transport controls, track volume, panning, and can even control virtual instrument parameters. The Studio Connections compatibility let you treat the MO as a VST SoftSynth inside Cubase SX 3.1 and Nuendo 3.1. Read more »

Kurzweil PC3 Keyboard

The Kurzweil PC3 76-Key Performance Controller delivers more than hundreds of sounds; basses, drums, guitars, and synths suited for every style and taste, along with a collection of flawless vintage keyboard emulations, KB3 Mode and over 250 orchestral and string section programs. For good measure Kurzweil included a 16-track sequencer and more effects processing power than our acclaimed KSP8 processor, making the PC3 a full blown music production workstation.

The PC3 is Kurzweil’s ultimate performance controller keyboard, with an enormous collection of stunning sounds combined with comprehensive real-time controller functions.

The PC3 76-Key Performance Controller offers an excellent sound set of over 800 programs, raising the bar once again for both audio quality and variety. With the best samples in the industry, and a powerful, responsive synth engine breathing life into them. The PC3′s backlit 240 x 64 display conveys all the information you’ll need, when you need it, in an elegant, easy to navigate environment. the PC3 offers more than twice the processing power of our acclaimed KDFX engine. Add in USB, flash card port, a newly designed keyboard action, and a new intuitive user interface, and you’ve got the next generation of Kurzweil instruments.

Effects can be chained together in series, or distributed among the Kurzweil PC3′s 16 multitimbral channels. And these are simply the best effects in the business – burning distortions, transparent compressors, warm phaser and chorus effects, perfect reverbs – everything from flawless vintage emulations to concert halls which decay into complete silence. All parameters are assignable to any of the Kurzweil PC3′s real time controllers – sliders, pedals, wheels, etc.

Kurzweil PC3 76-Key Performance Controller Technical Specifications: -

Display: 240 x 64 angled, backlit LCD w/ dedicated back panel brightness and contrast controls.

Polyphony Sounds: 128 Voice Polyphony, dynamically allocated, lightning fast performance.

Factory MIDI Setups: 96 factory programmed MIDI setups. 128 user programmable MIDI setups, each with 8 independent zones, effects and arpeggiator settings. Read more »