Yamaha never seems to change-so good at the products, so bad at making them fully usable by human beings. The engine looks exciting, but even after wading through multiple manuals, videos, and articles, and basically learning the structure, I still get confused sometimes when trying to grasp all the concepts. What you’re saying, and what about using the UI sounds like the experience I’ve been having just trying to understand it from a distance. TLDR: I love what I get out of it when I actually manage to convince myself to program it, but it lacks the immediacy I get of my other synths.Interesting. TLDR: I love what I get out of it when I actually manage to convince myself to program it, but it lacks the immediacy I get of my other synths. I would love a dedicated hardware "FM-X" editor midi controller, like some company made for the DX-7 (I actually asked Dtronics about the possibility, but apparently most people just use the montage/modx as a glorified stage piano without even touching the FM-X edition bit so they won't make one)
Too many parameters, not enough front panel controls, too many menus/submenus/having to dive and modify something buried under 4 levels of menus and another one on the opposite side of the architecture. That being said, I think that to get the best of it you definitely need the John Melas software suite and sample robot, and, when you look at it as a dedicated digital synth, although REALLY capable, it suffers the "workstation syndrome": (To the point where I've been programming some poor-man emulation of west coast buchlaesque synthesis in it with feedback osc/operator modulating other operator into wavefolder > amplitude and filter coupled to a matching AD enveloppe) I've been sampling a lot of things (including my prophet 6 sounds) in it for live use, and sometimes for creative stuff too, and the various OS upgrade definitely brought a lot of cool stuff and usually managed to renew my interest and get me to dive into FM-X again. Still really like my Montage 6 (have it since the first release), both as my primary (and often only) gig keyboard/tool, and as a studio FM-centered digital synth/controller/audio interface for my ipad running mirack etc.etc.
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