Kier Darby

The Yamaha Steinberg USB Driver is a vital part of getting Yamaha hardware working with your computer, but installing it on macOS can be challenging due to the need to edit the computer's security policy. The driver is required for USB communication between MONTAGE / MONTAGE M / MODX and your computer, to allow your DAW to send and receive multi-channel digital audio, and multi-port MIDI, including the functionality of the DAW Remote. On modern Macs, this driver requires changes to the macOS security policy before it can operate. Fear not, because this tutorial will take you through the entire process and ensure successful results. Note, driver version 3.1.7 is tested and working perfectly with macOS 15 and the Apple Silicon M4 family of processors.

The MONTAGE M allows performance PARTs outside of the keyboard control group to arbitrarily set their MIDI tx/rx channel, and if that were the only change from the MIDI implementation of the classic MONTAGE and MODX, everyone would be happy. But it's not. MONTAGE M8x, M6 and M7 dramatically change the design of the ZONE system, which was intended to allow PARTs to control MIDI-connected instruments, but some of the changes massively reduce the capabilities and flexibility users have come to expect from MONTAGE family synthesizers. This video begins with a look at how the MIDI implementation for the MONTAGE family has developed, and then looks at the problems that MONTAGE M introduces. If you already know everything about MIDI on the classic MONTAGE, jump to 06:52 . Please join me in lobbying Yamaha via Ideascale and any other means to ask for a firmware update to restore the power and flexibility that MONTAGE M has lost compared to MONTAGE and MODX. Ideascale links: ...

I have been working on a new tutorial series , designed to demystify the Yamaha MONTAGE family of synthesizers, including MONTAGE , MONTAGE M , MODX and MODX+ . Whether you are new to these instruments, or if you’ve owned one of them for some time and are looking to learn more about them, this concise step-by-step guide should help you to get started, or to deepen your knowledge. The videos are designed to be watched in order first time around. Skip ahead and you may miss a set-up that is required for the video you are watching.

Once your studio has its fair share of boutique, analog and modular synths that you love to tinker with, and your virtual instrument collection is brimming, you may find yourself considering a multi-timbral hardware synth that can provide your bread and butter sounds, but also be a great instrument in its own right. You’ve narrowed your selection to Roland FANTOM and Yamaha MONTAGE , because you’ve heard that both can be a great centrepiece to a studio, or for a live rig. So which is better? There are a number of videos online on this subject , but they tend to focus on a fairly shallow review of which sounds better, rather than what these instruments are actually like to work with. I’ve owned both of these synths for several years, and I think that there are some important differences between them that tend not to get discussed in enough detail, so I have produced a video to do just that . Although my video compares the original 2017 MONTAGE with the 2019 FANTOM ,...

The Yamaha MONTAGE , MONTAGE M , MODX and MODX+ synthesizers work great with DAW software, but Yamaha's own documentation concerns itself primarily with its own DAW, Cubase , leaving Logic Pro users scratching their heads. This playlist is a comprehensive guide to getting the most out of your MONTAGE family synth with Logic Pro, covering subjects from basic setup, different ways to record MIDI and audio, working with multiple audio interfaces, MONTAGE connect, putting the DAW remote to use, using external controllers and even integrating virtual instruments into your performances. The videos are designed to be watched in order first time around. Skip ahead and you may miss a set-up that is required for the video you are watching. The Complete Playlist Individual Videos Initial setup Managing audio devices About MIDI Recording MIDI and audio together Recording an arpeggiated performance Recording multi-channel audio MONTAGE Connect (or MODX C...

Lots of covers of ABBA's Lay All Your Love On Me (1980) either miss off the final synth solo, or largely make it up as it is quite difficult to hear it clearly through the mix, but if you want to play it correctly, this is for you. Following on from the excellent video from Jérôme Pech , transcribing the synth part from the end of Lay All Your Love On Me , here I have completed the work to include the final four bars heard in the fade-out on the album version of the track. The sheet music for the complete synth part is available at the end of this video All credit to Jérôme Pech for doing the majority of the hard work here, as seen in his original video: https://youtu.be/pAEnenB-q2g Copyright for the original song belongs to ABBA, of course.

It was announced today that from 2012, broadcast rights for Formula One races will be shared between the current holder, BBC Sport, and Sky Sports. The BBC will show a selection of races live, including Monaco, Silverstone and the final race of the season, while Sky Sports (a premium rate pay-TV channel) will broadcast every single race. Twitter is fuming with rage over the announcement, and I felt compelled to make a formal complaint: As a license fee payer, I would like to make abundantly clear that I find the newly announced Formula One broadcast arrangements abhorrent. BBC Sport director Barbara Slater's 'delight' over the matter fills me with ire, as I know of not a single follower of F1 that will share her sentiments. This is a monumental betrayal of those that have supported the BBC and F1 in recent years, and an appalling slight to the BAFTA award-winning production team and presenters that have raised the sport to its current heights. No, broadcasting 's...