User Manual

MONTAGE Owner’s Manual
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Main Features
 High-quality, enhanced sounds covering a
wide range of music styles
The MONTAGE is loaded with 5 GB (in 16-bit linear
format) of preset Advanced Wave memory (AWM2) —
more than seven times the size of the previous MOTIF
XF6/7/8. The MONTAGE has a huge variety of sounds,
including highly realistic Piano sounds, with large-
volume waveform data. Unlike its predecessors, the
MONTAGE features 1.7 GB of User flash memory built in,
for storing various Performance libraries. The
Performance data is maintained in the same way as
preset Performances even if the power is turned off. The
MONTAGE also now features an FM-X tone generator,
providing powerfully complex FM synthesis. This puts
both standard FM and new-generation FM sounds in
your sonic palette, giving you a wide range of
expressive, richly textured sounds to work with, and lets
you combine both the FM-X and AWM2 tone generators.
 Extensive effect processing
The MONTAGE has a huge variety of professional and
modern-music effects, including Beat Repeat, Vinyl
Break, Bit Crusher, and Analog Delay. The instrument
also gives you a wide array of signal processing options,
including separate Variation and Reverb, an overall
Master Effect including multi-band compression, five-
band master EQ, independent Insertion Effects, plus
three-band EQ before the Insertion Effects and two-band
EQ after them. These Insertion Effects contain wide
variety of sound processing options, including a special
Vocoder effect.
 Motion Control System for new musical
possibilities
The Motion Control System is a completely new feature
for variably controlling Motions (rhythmical, multi-
dimensional sound changes) in real time. This amazingly
powerful feature dramatically and dynamically alters the
sounds of the instrument in new, never-heard-before
ways—changing texturally, rhythmically with the beats,
providing cool, colorful lighting effects, and responding
expressively to your creative passion.
The Motion Control System has three main functions:
1) Super Knob:
For creating multi-dimensional sonic changes, and
enhancing those changes with colorful, continually
shifting lighting changes.
2) Motion Sequencer:
For continually variable sound changes.
3) Envelope Follower:
Synchronizes the Motions with tempo and volume of
audio input and other Parts.
 Expanded, enhanced Arpeggio function and
Motion Sequence
The MONTAGE has more than 10,000 Arpeggio types
that cover the latest music styles. Further enhancing the
musical expressiveness of the instrument, you can
combine the Motion Sequence function for creating
dynamic sound variability over time with various
Arpeggio types. You can store all contents—Arpeggio
Type, Motion Sequence, and other parameters such as
Part volume—together as Scenes, and assign them to
eight buttons, letting you conveniently and powerfully
call up those Scenes as desired while you perform.
 Exceptionally convenient live performance
functions
The MONTAGE has a Live Set function for easily calling
up Performances as you play onstage. Once you’ve
stored Performances in the desired order, you can
concentrate fully on your playing and never be at a loss
on which to choose. The MONTAGE also has SSS
(Seamless Sound Switching) function for switching
between Performances smoothly without any notes
being cut off.
 Enhanced user interface
Unlike its predecessors, the MONTAGE has been
designed without any “Modes.” As a result, it is extremely
easy to understand the structure and flow of the
instrument, and the convenient touch panel is a total joy
to use. You can creatively and effectively use the touch
panel for intuitive operations and the switches for more
secure control, if desired. These switches light in three
different ways, letting you instantly understand the
current status of the switches.
 Responsive, expressive keyboard
The MONTAGE6 features a 61-key keyboard, while the
MONTAGE7 has 76 keys with a high-quality FSX
keyboard and the MONTAGE8 has 88 keys with a high-
quality BH (Balanced Hammer) keyboard. All are
equipped with a touch response feature (both initial
touch and aftertouch). These allow you to expressively
change the sound in various ways—initial touch by the
strength with which you play the keys, and aftertouch by
how strongly you press the keys when holding them
down.
 Comprehensive system connectivity
The MONTAGE features a built-in 6-channel in/32-
channel out USB audio interface for recording the high-
quality sound of the MONTAGE on a Mac or Windows
PC—without the need for a separate device! The
MONTAGE also supports high-resolution 192 kHz audio,
making the ideal keyboard to take into professional-level
recording situations as well. The connections are also
compatible with iOS devices.