Reviews: Yamaha Keyboards

For those of you who love the Yamaha MM6 keyboard with all its cool features, Yamaha just unveiled one more model to the MM line up—the Yamaha MM8...read more.

When the Yamaha S90ES made its debut in August of 2005, it marked a quantum leap forward in digital piano and synthesis technology. Putting aside its Motif ES roots and all its other capabilities, the S90ES is the best feeling and sounding digital piano/synth we have ever played so far...read more.

When Yamaha came out with the original Motif workstation keyboard back in 2001, it set a new standard for Yamaha keyboards with its sonic capability and real-time performance features making it the professionals' choice in a music workstation. Since then, Yamaha raised the bar by debuting the Motif ES (Extensive Sonic) in 2003. Yamaha upped the ante with an additional 180MB of waveforms compared to the Motif ES and more than doubled the polyphony to 128 voices from the original Motif. In its latest evolutionary change, the new Yamaha Motif XS is impressive. From its 355MB of waveforms, eight real-time knobs and sliders to its sampler, arpeggiator, and massive color LCD screen, this production music workstation is one of the most powerful keyboards we've ever tested...read more.

Over here at Yamaha Musician.com, we pulled up a bench, snatched a sustain pedal and went to work evaluating the Yamaha MM6. At first glance, the MM6 is stealthy looking and incredibly light (about 11lbs.) which is great for gigs or taking it to a friend's house for some jamming. This keyboard is a 61-key, 32-voice, five-octave keyboard with an eight-track sequencer (ninth track for rhythms), and 70MB of sound wave data consisting of hundreds of patches, FX programs, and rhythms...read more.