High Quality Sounds to Spark Your Creativity
The MOTIF XSprovides an exceptionally broad selection of realistic sounds to sparkyour creativity, with a massive 355 MB of high-quality waveforms andsamples on board. A single Voice can
have up to eight separate soundElements, enabling composite sounds of remarkable complexity andnuance. Among the standout Voices is a resonant, meticulously recordedconcert grand piano sound that
is practically worth the price ofadmission by itself. New acoustic piano, electric piano and orchestralsamples - not to mention the richly textured and distinctly electronicsynthesizer waves --
give you the sonic tools to fully realizevirtually any style of music and any instrumentation.
Anothernew feature is the Expanded Articulation (XA) tone generation system.Using the 8 available Elements, XA allows you to more effectivelyrecreate realistic sound and natural performance
techniques -- such aslegato, staccato and key release sounds -- often used on acousticinstruments but unavailable or difficult to realize on electronickeyboards. It also lets you assign Elements to
on/off panel switches,and change sounds within a Voice in real time -- for example, playing aclassical guitar voice and switch between playing normally and playinghigh harmonics. XA also offers
other unique modes for random andalternate sound changes as you play.
A wide selection of specialMega Voices provide even more expressive nuance, when used withsequencer tracks or the special Mega Voice Arpeggios. Mega Voices arenot meant to be played from
the keyboard because of their complexvelocity layers, but have special expressive sounds that are designedto be precisely triggered by recorded data -- for example, letting youcreate an acoustic
guitar track with authentic sounding muted playing,slides and bell-like harmonics.
Other Voice-related featuresinclude a uniquely natural "half damper" effect for acoustic pianosounds. This gives you nuanced control over the sustained sound whenpressing the damper pedal,
depending on how far down you press thepedal. The MOTIF XS has a full complement of effects, both insert(Insertion) and send (System), and includes a special set of VCM(Virtual Circuitry Modeling)
effects that authentically model theelements in analog circuitry, realistically recreating the uniquelywarm characteristics of vintage processing gear. Speaking of "vintage,"the instrument also
includes a sophisticated Vocoder effect thatproduces classic robotic synthesizer sounds, molded by your speaking orsinging voice through a connected microphone.