New Flagship Motif Sound Module

The Yamaha Motif Rack XS - Inspiration can strike at any time, but there's no need to wait for it. The all new Motif-Rack XS is packed full of inspiring sounds, exciting rhythms and expressive control that spur your creativity to new heights - any time, any place. The compact Yamaha Motif-Rack XS gives you an enormous selection of Voices based on the popular,professional-level Motif XS, studio-level effect processing,five real-time Control Knobs for tweaking 20 different parameters as you play,a wide-ranging library of convenient Multi-part presets,thousands of automatic Arpeggios at your fingertips, and seamless hardware/software integration.

Never before has such comprehensive control, music-making versatility andsheer sonic power been combined in such a small, easy-to-use package.This little powerhouse has all you need - effectively doing the workof several tone generators and processors.Simply hook it up to a laptop or a keyboard workstation and you've got an entire studio's worth ofsounds and effects at your fingertips - plus a whole world of inspiration you can tap into.

Utilizing the very same Voices and the same tone generationarchitecture as the famed MOTIF XS, the compact MOTIF-RACK XS gives you everything you need for your studio productions and live performances. Boasting a full 1,152 Voices and 65 Drum Kits, this versatile tone generator is packed full of luscious grand pianos, realistic sounds for virtually every instrument in the orchestra, vintage organs and electric pianos, expressive guitars, powerful basses, synthesizer sounds of every stripe, from classic to cutting-edge contemporary, ethnic instruments, as well as a huge variety of drum kits and percussion sets to perfectly match any music style.

What's more, the MOTIF-RACK XS has a synthesis engine filled with 355 MB of waveform data, for a total of 2,670 separate waveforms - an amazingly broad selection of building blocks you can use to create your own Voices. These can be saved to the three User Voice banks, letting you store up to 384 of your original Voices on the instrument itself.

The Multi presets provide a convenient library or multiinstrument settings you can instantly call up when composing or arranging. Each has several different Parts pre-programmed with special Voices and other settings for a variety of music genres and applications, such as R&B, hip-hop, jazz, film soundtrack, electronica, Latin styles, ballad, rock and much, much more. Just select the template you want, and instantly start recording your own song demos or full-fledged recordings. Up to 128 of your own original User Multis can be stored, too.

Yamaha Motif-Rack XS Features:

• Wide range of dynamic and authentic Voices - total of 1,152 Voices and 65 Drum Kits
• Powerful Arpeggio function - simultaneous playback of four types, total 6,633 available
• Five real-time Control Knobs, for adjusting the sound as you perform or record
• Convenient, intuitive editing of all settings from computer with MOTIF-RACK XS Editor
• Full integration with the popular Cubase series audio/MIDI recording software

Yamaha Motif-Rack XS Specifications:

• AWM2 Tone Generator with Expanded Articulation
• 128 notes Polyphony
• Wave 355MB (when converted to 16-bit linear format), 2,670 waveforms
• Voice Preset: 1,024 Normal Voices + 64 Drum Kits
• GM: 128 Normal Voices + 1 Drum Kit
• User: 128 x 3 Normal Voices + 32 Drum Kits (Both of the User Voices are selected and copied from Preset bank)
• Multi User: 128 Multis
• Reverb 9 types
• Chorus 22 types
• Insertion A 53 types (up to 8 blocks available in the Multi mode)
• Insertion B 53 types (up to 8 blocks available in the Multi mode)
• Master Effect 9 types
• Master EQ 5 bands (High, High Mid, Mid, Low Mid, Low)
• Part EQ 3 bands (High, Mid, Low)
• Arpeggio
• Arpeggio Type 6,633 types ( MIDI Sync, MIDI transmit/receive channel, Velocity Limit, and Note Limit can be set)
• Front Panel Connections: PHONES
• Rear Panel Connections: USB TO HOST, MIDI IN/OUT, DIGITAL OUTPUT, ASSIGNABLE OUTPUT L and R, OUTPUT L/MONO and R, DC/IN, mLAN (when the mLAN16E2 has been installed)
• Display: 160 x 64-dot graphic backlit LCD
• Supplied Accessories: AC Power adaptor (PA-301, PA-300B or an equivalent recommended by Yamaha), Owner manual, Data List, Disk x 1 (containing DAW software)
• Digital Output: 44.1kHz, 24bit (COAXIAL)
• Dimensions: 480 (W) x 379.4 (D) x 44 (H) mm
• Weight: 4.2kg