Yamaha MODX Synthesizer | Everything You Need to Know

In the world of synth, MODX is changing the game! We have resident synth expert and Yamaha cool guy Blake Angelos to take us through it, and show us what it's got! Check it out.



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[beetleworx]

Yes, got mine for about a year now... and in these strange times I had the time to play it a lot. I still love it. I felt at home on my MODX7 after a few minutes ...

[JonesyTheCat]

Blake is a good pianist, he knows what refreshing chords to play.

[renmad]

Very clear demo it's a really cool synthétiser 🙏👍😏

[doublebabba]

Happy to see someone, who likes the special sounds and effects. The rest of youtube videos deals with piano sound. They even compare piano sound of different synthis. Who cares!? I don't understand nothing🤪 For me the piano is a little extra on a synthi. Nothing more . The Rest... 99 % is high tech. Who buys a synthi in order to play piano??? 40 years ago... starting playing Organ... electric... not electronic. Grown up with sound mixtures and rhythm maschine. Even the church organs have more to offer than simple sounds. jean michel jarre...brad fiedel... a. s. o. THAT is the main task for Synthesizers!

[Valdes_on_keys]

Blake is amazing at explaining this board.

[alancummings]

This is an awesome keyboard. The best value in its price range. I have the Modx7 and love it. Only issues I have is not all sound can do the Seamless Sound Switching. Apparently if I update to 2.5 version it will resolve some of this.

[RayyMusik]

I have a MODX7 and use it mainly for 2 purposes:
1. Designing FM patches,
2. Using the FX for other synths via the external input.
The samples are very good as well, but not a USP.
Great keyboard, but it would be even greater with aftertouch.

[JuniorShepherd]

Ordered my MODX8 today! Looking forward to trying out some of the sounds shown by Blake here. This will be a huge upgrade for me coming from an MX61.

[darrylday]

Great job Blake. I didn’t realize what I was missing. I should have got one of these a few years ago. I’ll be trading in my trusty but rusty MOFX on a new MODX+ this week. Now that I’m playing in a band again, I’m going to really appreciate the SSS and scenes.

[michaeltrenier]

Blake just won my money from Roland and Korg. Damn this thing is crazy.

[kevanbarrett]

I would agree with everything Blake is saying. I have a Montage 7 and got a MODX 6 to take to rehearsals (pre covid). Great that you can load sounds from Montage to Modx. Fantastic value for money, that said I would have happily paid more for it if it had same memory capacity of Montage and a better key-bed.

[FlowwerrMusic]

Could have just made a module box like Roland. That way you carry around a light weight keyboard controller. Thanks for thinking of those of us on the lower income and fixed income bracket. Equity opportunity for all artists to success.

[joonglegamer]

Yamaha resellers REALLY need to stop focussing on "the suberknob" sales pitch, it's over used and detracts from the REAL powers Montage and MODX have. The REAL power behind these instruments is that every KNOB is ASSIGNABLE and the so called superknobs function is actually more of a slider between fully animatable mixing actions and settings.

Besides, the knob itself is rather useless because you want BOTH HANDS on the keyboard, so what most of us do (I'm a Montage owner) is to use the REAR Superknob-input and assign a VOLUME PEDAL to it, that way we can control that "mixing/variable/animatable" superknob with our feet, changing / animating between various settings of our performance.

All those knobs you see on the Montage / MODX there - you can ANIMATE and fully control INDIVIDUALLY, so say - you want your Yamaha to be more like an ANALOG synthesizer with parameters adjustable "On-The-Fly" you can ASSIGN EACH KNOB and even SLIDERS to have a specific function, any funtion you'd ever want in fact.

What the "Superknob" functionality does, is act like a MASTER-SLIDER for ALL of the KNOBS, meaning you can ANIMATE between operating ALL of the KNOBS at the same time, with the superknob.

I hope that made more sense to people watching/reading this.

[TheBuddyKeys]

Wonderful review. You do a great job. Jealous of your talent.

[lucaspiano]

Does the Modx8+ have the aftertouch effect?

[ernestholcomb]

Hi Blake I have a question for you. My question is how can you go through the settings to get the Vogue quarter? And could you run through the settings for me on YouTube? And do I have to use the effect switch on my keyboard? If so would you let me know how to set it up. I understand that there's a full quarter inside the machine itself

[mikecampbell]

Hi Blake, are these sounds on the keyboard already or did you upload them? For example, trombone swell, film choir, imperial grand, etc?

[jjptech]

Amazing engine, so sad that they decided to go for this low quality keybed for the 6 and 7. I was hoping to at the very least get a semi weighted keybed on the 7

[jiriandras]

Hi Blake, thank you for super video. I have a question. Is the Bosendorfer piano sound including in the factory set of MODX or I must to pay extras for these sound library to the flash memory. Thanks you so much for your answer

[erikfox]

pls explain how to make modx to play a standard midi file song imported into cubase 11..? is there a way to do that..?