Yamaha MODX Sequencer making it easier step by step
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- Опубліковано 29 жов 2023
- These are what I think must take steps to make the MODX sequencer easier to use and navigate. The sequencer is powerful but Yamaha documentation is lacking a step by step guide to use the sequencer. I hope this helps someone.
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AT LAST!!!!! a real musician explains the vagaries of the (most excellent) MODX sequencer…thank you so much for this 😁👍🏼
Great video ! Finally this sequencer makes sense.. 😊
Thank you!
This is a great explanation of something that seems really complicated to perform from the manuals - thank you so much!
You are really working on it and helping us to understand what this lovely machine can do.😃
It’s a labyrinth haha
This is why i love Korg with keep their Linear Sequencer
Super demo video
Step ny step with explanation. Much better than Yamaha 's demos. Make more videos, please. 😁
Thank you for your kind words. Yes I will and there are more videos about the MODX in my channel.
Excellent tutorial and very helpful! Thank you.
Loved it. Very simply explained. Thank you very much.
Thank you, I hope it helps!
Awesome video my friend. I've had issues with this forever. Thanks for the info
Thank you for this fabulous video!
Thank you so much! Loop based recording now is clear to me. How do I build a song with different components (patterns?) like intro, verse, chorus, bridge?
Here is another video it may offer more information and also the Song linking/chaining is around minute 20 ua-cam.com/video/YspiOTdcpQ8/v-deo.htmlsi=wU0SMamqwOCtJTIa
@@edgaba Thank you very much! Most appreciated.
Hey, great info on the sequencer setup. You know, I wished that they adopted the sequencer graphic layout as in the QY700 ...a very underrated powerful sequencer (crap sounds) but the sequencer was stellar.😊
Yes. Originally when they first came out they did not have a sequencer. It was added afterwards so it is confusing to navigate with almost no documentation.
I enjoyed the sequencer on the original Motif. Now I just started using Cubase a couple days ago cause it's much easier than the internal sequencer on the MODX.
@@paulis7319 Yes it can be a pain. Haha
Thanks for doing this! I very much appreciate the time you took to create the content and then edit for us here! Perfect!
Great video buddy thanks lots. About arp I think agree with you, no one use it even I don’t understand how it works. I love the sounds of this keyboard and I would like use the patterns for my practicing but it’s complicated to use the sequencer
Great lesson on this crazy sequencer on the modx. Now I have a better understanding .My last yamaha was the xs and things were 💯% earlier in that sequencer. Thanks again
Thanks so much! I just got my MODX and it's overwhelming. This is a great place to start.
Thanks for this very helpfull Video. 👍
Love this! Thank you!
Thank you so much. I was starting to think I was crazy because I couldn't get the happening!
It's so awesome you did this! I just figured these features out a few days ago and I've had this keyboard for three years! Then I got drunk enough to kick back and figure out the basics of Cubase (the Elements version that comes with the purchase of the keyboard). Once I'm comfortable enough to create an entire song I'll post it on my channel...actually working on an intro/outro to make my videos a little more professional.
Send me a link when you get it done. 👍
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@@edgaba Done.
ua-cam.com/video/CDxGPEFEYVw/v-deo.htmlsi=t6jne8nxmw8-JH0K
@@edgaba Nice! Just looked it up. Might get the 60 fps 1080. Wish they had a 120 fps UHD. Makes for smoother zooming and slomo's.
This is such a powerful, wonderful and beautiful instrument its a musicians dream
Very helpful sir thank you
You've got my sub. Thank you!
An unintuitive interface is the Montage's biggest problem. Two things could have solved this. (1) Context Help Button - a button when pressed brings up a window explaining the section of the screen currently selected. (2) Context Menu Button - a button when pressed would provide an organized list of commands or options available for the section of the screen currently selected. Many computer apps now have these and they are indispensable and greatly simplify the interface.
True! Great idea.
Only beginners face such problems. By the time it gets better. But those 1000 bugs, noone finds, cares or talks about, they will remain.
Excellent!!!
many thanks, simple and easy to understand, the owner's manual is... meh..
Thanks !
This is amazing. Thanks so much. I have the Montage (old one, not the M) and have been looking for instructions like this for a long time now, and have only been using trial and error to figure this out. The kicker however is when you realize there is no way to export audio to .wav. Seems the only way to do that is to record it as audio while playing live? When you say you can record audio via the USB audio out, does it have to go into a DAW or other recorder like garage band? Thanks again!
Yes . The montage and MOdX are also audio/midi interfaces through USB so you can connect it to a computer, iPad or any recorder that accepts audio usb or also you could use any recorder if you wanna export the audio. Is the 1/4 inch audio outputs
Both, the machine and the included Cubase are not made for beginners ;) In your case you will also have some fun with "Utility - Quick Setup". Recording to an Audio-Track in a DAW shouldn't be not a big deal. Only those shortcuts of your machine are pretty messing around. After you choosed "Audio Rec to DAW" it is still not ready. Yamaha is not famous for its explanations; in this case, how to change and save those "presets". Possible ... "explained"... but typical Yamaha-style. So what I do ... This shortcut sets the Parts on MIDI channels. Your DAW Audio Track will show nothing than Part 1 and 2 ... if you are lucky. If you record to audio track (simpliest), you will have to set all parts to "Main L/R"!!! Then you can make a simple Audio-Record.
Live play with sequencer or only sequencer ... depends on what/how much you recorded. Of course you can start the record in DAW and press the play button of your sequencer. That's it for "audio".
The sequencer is very mighty ... if you accustom to work blindly ;) And if you master all of those menues. Advanced editing (mixing/appending/pregressive construction aso.) requires some tricky thoughts. And those are explained nowhere. But at least I proved that everything is possible ... without a DAW!
Nevertheless I made my way around the sequencer, since I also want to record directly to USB stick. Converting sequences to arps, trigger them (with one key) or using scenes to change them ... possible. Many possibilities of adjusting arps accordingly. I even do this with extensive (drum-)sequences. The only limit then is the amount of arps you can save in the machine. At me: 256. Next conclusion: using the connection software to outsource/load arps.
Does that have a STEP mode like earlier Yamaha Sequencers? thanks.
I don’t think so.
How did you turn on the loop command. I can't find it at all.
If I understand the question correctly… when you press the record button the screen that appears will have several options, one of them is Loop On or Off. You will see from left to right: Scene next to it Length, Key on Start and the following is Loop. I hope this helps.
Hello and thanx for this video!
I want to recreate a song. One scene consists of the length of 5. But in the 5th one I want the time signature to be 3/4, instead of 4/4. Is there any way to do this? Thanx in advance!
Sadly I don’t think so. The time signature becomes global on every performance and it’s scenes. However the way you can do it is by having all your 4/4 scenes in one pattern and then make another performance and another pattern with the 5/4 or different time signature and glue them together in song mode. So record mode you press>edit job>Song and build the song with to different patterns. I hope this helps.
@@edgaba I didn't know I can glue Patterns in song mode. What I usually do is , use the pattern and changing scenes on the go (which helps me, as I later realized, to deal with my time signature issue). I will definitely try song mode though! This helped me a lot, thanx !
I made a couple of these tracks. But i don't know how to call them back up to work more on them. Can you help me?
The sequences are saved with the performance hopefully you remember to store the performance. To recall it just load the performance again.
Thank you so very much for replying. So many of these vids and the authors don't answer questions. I will try again. I thought i did save the performance. But i guess not. Sorry to be such a noobie. I'm an old school musician, i'm in over my head but loving it.@@edgaba
When using an external midi controller connected into the modx, seems like I’m having a difficult time switching the track channels with external midi controller. It’s only allowing me to play on track 1…could you solve this problem ?
Here is something I read that might help. “You have 3 modes on the MoDX / Montage for receiving midi messages form another device:
Multi: here every part on the performance is fixed to the corresponding midi channel (part 1 = channel 1, part 2 = channel 2, … , part16 = channel 16)
Hybrid: here every part under keyboard control is fixed to the main midi channel (that can be selected), all other parts are handeled like in multi mode
Single: all parts are assigned to the main channel (that can be selected in utilities)
Multi mode is the classical GM midi mode - you can play each an every channel by sending data on the corresponding channel.
Hybrid/Single is kind of a workaround for playing the parts under keyboard control from an external keyboard. E.g. you want to play a piano sound that is using 4 or 5 parts (e.g. the CFX concert) from an external keyboard. In Hybrid mode you can additionally play the parts not under keyboard control by using the corresponding channel.
An issues comes up when you need to play two (or more) parts not under keyboard control. Here the external master keyboard needs to send messages on two (or more) midi channels. This is not possible on all masterkeyboards (e.g. my Arturia Keylab is only able to send on ONE channel).
There is no direct way of solving this issue. On idea is to use a midi processor (MIDI solutions box). Another idea is to use an iPad/Notebook with MainStage, Camelot Pro or the new Steinberg Live system). This systems allows you to map the channels…
For sending data from the MoDX/Montage to another board you need to use the midi zone master functionality - here you can assign the midi channel for without limitations.
In my opinion it depends a lot on the use case if this is an limitation or not. I do seldom play sounds from another keyboard so I‘m mostly fine with the implementation. Most of the time there are iPad (with Camelot Pro) and / or notebooks involved and I could bypass this issue easily.
In other words: this is a absolutely low prio restriction for me.
But I agree with Derek that this is kind of a stupid limitation and I don‘t understand why Yamaha not at least implemented a mapping function / matrix function to map the midi channel freely.” Can I ask why do you wanna control the MODX from another controller?
Thanks for sharing this info. The reason why I wanted to use another midi controller so that when I’m creating a beat pattern that it’s easy to use on my keyboard controller being that it’s not heavy weighted. I find it easier making a drum groove on less weighted keys. I enjoy creating ideas on my MODx8
¿Se puede editar una sola nota? ¿Por ejemplo borrarla?
Thanks for this. Our styles aren't the same but damn has this board made me feel stupid.
How do you change the arpeggio tempo while on a Live performance?
I don’t know much about arpa since I don’t really use them however, I do know that the tempo of the performance is global for that performance so all the aros would share the tempo of that performance. You may be able to set a different tempo in a scene within that performance. Example let’s say in the performance scene 1 is set to 120 BPM and scene 2 to 100 BPM you have to save it on each scene and then store the whole performance again so it gets saved. Think of a performance as the co trainer of all the tracks l, aros and all the settings, They can be different from scene to scene within the same performance. I hope this helps.
what about using arp?
Personally I almost never use the arps, maybe for a drum loop. I like to play all the parts live.
I love the drum arps. When i had a sy77 long time ago I made my own. But Yamaha has some very good ones that I can't duplicate tbh. So let's say i want to do an arp in the drums i just keep the keyboard light on?
I don't understand this at all 6:25. You said "record something" . You hit the record button but the position doesn't change . did you step record? Mine doesn't record when I do this. Very confusing. This isn't sequencing. Sequencing is when you put notes in a sequence and then play them. This is recording parts.
At 6:25 precisely the record button is not activated, just playing keys. That cannot be seen cause video is just showing sreen, not buttons. 10s later you hear the metronom because the record button was hit and recording process launched.
My issue is that there is no punch in/ out in pattern mode. If you make a mistake there is no easy fixes.😞
While I’m pattern mode next to the time signature you have a dukes called position this is where you can punch in from any measure in the pattern. Also while in pattern mode and the pattern is playing there is an erase function where you can erase by note any mistakes. I hope this helps. 😎🎶
@@edgaba The entire track (part) gets deleted unless you put it in overdub mode.
@@BRJHA80 yes that how most sequencers work :-)
@@edgaba My previous keyboard, the Korg M3 wasnt like that. For example, I'm recording a track, I make a mistake on the 8 measure, I restart on the 8th measure and continue recording, and ONLY the mistake in the 8th measure gets deleted. I guess all workstation keyboards are not the same when it comes to sequencing.🤷♂
@@BRJHA80 it does have a way to locate to any measure and also just overwrite that or overdub so it should operate the same way.
They made it very complicated. I've had many Yamaha sequencers and this one is way too hard.
Seems to me that when designing Montage (and of course MODX is really "Montage Lite") Yamaha decided that "no one uses hardware sequencers anymore because everyone just does it in their DAW." Frankly, I think they were stunned to learn how many people still want the sequencer to be right there in the instrument. Hence the OS updates adding the Pattern Sequencer. But I agree, it can be confusing to use because by default it already has so much going on like the Keyboard Control and the Arps defaulting to "On." I think setting up a template from the Initial setting is a great idea. You just start from scratch and nothing is there until you put it in. I find it easier to work this way. Nothing wrong with all the supplied complicated performances already being there--you can always use them if you want. But when creating a sequence, especially when using the sequencer to compose as a sort of "scratch pad", being able to have a basic template always there ready to go makes a lot of sense to me. Thanks for uploading this video.
Fl studio is easier
That’s nice …
Stopped watching when you decided to voice your opinion on use of Arpeggiator. I don't need to be lectured on how you think "real" musicians shouldn't be using it.
Weird I don’t remember saying anything about the arp. I don’t ever use it really. I didn’t mean to offend anyone and I also didn’t mean to come across like lecturing, just making a video that may help someone that is as confused with this sequencer as I am haha
@edgaba, listen to yourself at 1:59
I stand corrected. I don’t use the arps and frankly I don’t understand them, specially the drum patterns. I find them confusing and I don’t think they sound good compared to other drum patterns included in other Yamaha products. I didn’t really mean to offend anyone and I apologize if I did. Again, I just wanted to make a video that might help someone that wants to use the sequencer on the MODX
I understand the author says he doesn’t deal with aprs in case of some one wants to use arp better use PSR series. This video is very good he does a great job
Sensitive much?