YAMAHA: MO Series - Make Mo' Music: Yamaha Music Production !

YAMAHA: MO Series.....Make Mo' Music: Yamaha Music Production

The MO series brings the sonic palette and music production power of the award winning MOTIF ES to a new generation of players and producers. Equally at home on stage or in the studio, the MO series is not just a keyboard, but the heart of your music production system. Killer sounds, a complete Song and Pattern based sequencer, powerful on-board effects processing and total computer integration come together to make these the most affordable music production synthesizers in the Yamaha line up.

From Acoustic to Analog-the MO has it all! The heart of the MO series is the same massive 175 MB wave ROM and synth engine found in the flagship MOTIF ES. Complete with expressive, multi-velocity acoustic pianos and EPs, MegaVoice guitars and basses that capture all the subtle nuance of the real thing and a complete selection of analog and digital synth sounds from funky basses, silky leads to atmospheric pads. you'll find that nothing in its price range has any MO.

As a musician today you find yourself in lots of different situations-live gigs, song writing collaborations, studio sessions and computer music environments loaded with DAWs and SoftSynths. The MO series was designed to adapt to each of these different applications and provide just the right feature set for each situation. The responsive Voices and real time controls allow you to express subtle emotions in live performance. The Performances are not only live ensembles with splits and layers, but many use the MO's Phrase Factory Arpeggios and are complete grooves to instantly inspire new song ideas. But most important of all, the MO series was designed to be not just a keyboard, but the center of a computer based music production studio.

The MO's Song and Pattern sequencer was designed to be a creative scratch pad to let you quickly and easily get your song writing ideas down. The new Utility Quick Setups let you transfer from the internal sequencer to your computer with a single button press.

MO offers a DAW remote control mode that gives you full hands on remote control of DAWs and SoftSynths. You can even edit and control VST/AU plug-ins and see their parameters displayed in the LCD display of the MO. Total control over your DAW and SoftSynths from your hardware synth has never been easier.

Perhaps the most exciting part of the MO series is the benefits of full Studio Connections compatibility -just launch your Cubase SX3 or Nuendo 3 project and Studio Connections "Recall" will reconfigure your MO to exactly the settings that were last used. 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. . Total control of your hardware synth from your DAW software has never been easier.

Now you can utilize all the power of the total computer integration in the MO series to make more music.