Yamaha MODX Revealed! First Look & Sounds

Brand new! Here's Yamaha MODX! On this Doctor Mix exclusive Dom heads to New York and gives us a first look at this highly anticipated new synthesizer, and plays some of its sounds.
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[@TebogoMotlhale]

oh Lord !! the DX is finaly back ! the Legend of FM synthesis lives on !!! i have waited 30 years for this thing to come back to life !!

[@darrenhirst9900]

Its alive alive 👀

[@RonWolfHowl]

5:34 dang, that sounds like some super detailed sampling work they did

[@dykodesigns]

Amazing sounding synth! It takes FM synthesis to next level. The combination of having two different synth engines seems very flexible and dynamic.

[@johnduffy7108]

Superb...it reminds me of the Music for Relaxing with, the CD's from the Nineties Ocean Music...Dolphins..Whales etc,etc...

[@elvinlewis4233]

An easily underrated, and undersold synth imo. You guys need a polished, deep dive with a fresh personality.

[@thehottestbeatz]

Always love the Yamaha workstations especially the newest ones. This sounds amazing. Wish they had a plugin version

[@RayyMusik]

Was already looking for prices in Germany - then I heard "no aftertouch". Absolute show-stopper.

[@chriswalton720]

And Yamaha is making a big deal about the MODX’s ability to import older DX patches, yet many of them won’t play the same way without aftertouch. Even the lower-end 4op DX11 had aftertouch.

[@Emmanuel_Tuts-Schiemsky]

is this true? no aftertouch??

[@Dolores5000]

octopus34 I'll deal without aftertouch tho sounds are very nice

[@tumbler9428]

Thank you. Without aftertouch, it feels like you're missing a sense organ, an important medium of emotional expression. Oh, and of course you'd require a pitch/mod.-JOYSTICK (no f*cking wheels) ;-) but that's another story.

[@nickash5]

No aftertouch? Ray Charles wouldn't have approved. 😂

[@jaybeetdown]

Man! I was JUST about to buy a Korg Kross! I may hold out for this, it's like a mix between a Montage, DX7 and a Motif!

[@rodneylee4026]

I was about to get am MX61 as a second tier but decided to spend a little more for this MOX7. This thing should cover it all.

[@jaybeetdown]

@@rodneylee4026 After further research, I found out you can add the sounds from the DX7 and TX libraries! You can preorder it. 61 key is going for $1,299

[@WyattLite-n-inn]

@jaybeetdown: It doesn’t sample though or sequence

[@jaykeel7309]

Sweat bands? Come on man...🤦‍♂️

[@TheRealDirtySkillz]

@@jaybeetdown it can play old motif libraries, so backwards compatiable.

[@JacobAndJamal]

I love this demo . All the other demos are pianos and acoustic which I don’t really care about, a piano is a piano, and if I need better I have NI Komplete; I want to hear the pads/leads/drum kits and fx

[@AnalogX64]

Bonus points for the Atari T-Shirt :)

[@saeedmorley7594]

I know right! Made me want 1.

[@darrenhirst9900]

There was always the Amiga crew but ours has midi so there 👀

[@musicaldevil4467]

It's a beast if agree then like

[@danieltecla]

Musical Devil please, take a look on my video! kzbin.info/www/bejne/epSYiJKarq-ji7s

[@l.ssssb_]

Mini Montage!!!!

[@AhmadAhmad-nz7xo]

thank you so much Dom . You are doing well . appreciate your time.

[@subconscious.com_usa6691]

Fantastic sounding synth, but i wished yamaha would give us all what we really want, a new modern cs80 with 12 voices and a 12 op fm engine built in too :)

[@WARDISWARD]

wtf would you need 12 operators ? 8 is more then enough , and these have also the spectral skirt parameters like on the mntage / and the fs1r

[@subconscious.com_usa6691]

Ward de jager I know it might seem excessive to have 12 operators, but i once dropped on a cheap dx11 at a old secondhand shop for $75 a couple of years ago which is a very underrated synth with just 4 ops, but it had a 8-part multitimbral mode that you could use, which allowed you to do 32 operator patches that you could spread out in the stereo field, which sounded very fat and very abrasive, but as i learned more about fm synthesis, i realised i could control all the operator with the envelopes, so i could have operator coming in a fading out to make huge progressive pad type soundscapes that sounded other worldly and lasted for ages, you could do all sorts of mad sounds with it from a attack of a piano morphing into a huge pad with modulation coming in halfway through then morphing into a bell sound morphing into a bass etc etc, you could also do modular type progressive drones textures similar to what future sounds of london used to do, it was also capable to do dubstep type sounds too, Also sorry for my ignorance but what is spectral skirt parameters :)

[@WARDISWARD]

I have a nord modular and tg77 and I hardly use more then 6 operators . The magic lies in the algoritms and feedback . an feedback enabled operator = saw ...use this as modulator for 0hz sine ( the tg 77 can do this ) instant sine shaping heaven . The tg77 and nord modular are fm monsters

[@subconscious.com_usa6691]

Thous tg77 are awesome buddy, Yes i learned all that that you mentioned by studying how all the presets were made by just looking at the parameters and the different algorithms and how they were used to make a certain sound and taking notes. also the dx11 hasn't just got sine waves it has them all from square to triangle to saw etc etc, so you didnt really have to make other waveforms from sine waves, your able to create even more complex waveforms with mixing and matching them all, so its a little bit different than a dx7. Also some of the types of sounds i mentioned i was making with it apart from the pad type sounds ,wouldn't be the type of sounds you could use in tune with beats and other parts, it was just experimental sort of fat ambient type textures, i also did normal stuff too i didnt always use 32 ops :) Any way awesome buddy

[@MFlieger2]

SUBHUMAN .COM USA ist

[@igorcarvalhopadilhaandrade5886]

🥰How Good It Is To Have A Keyboardist Family🥰

[@VIBHAKAR]

Creative mind creative sound.. amazing playing.

[@KingBlonde]

Good first synth? Would be using mainly in a recording environment. I basically just want faithful DX7 synthesis, and this new stuff sounds even better.

[@jamesbarton894]

OBXa sounds on the MODX? WHOA!!!!

[@seankalifut9948]

I just bought a MOXF and now Yamaha adds a Pattern sequencer to the MODX. I have a very tough decision to make.

[@PatrickRosenbalm]

Very nice synth but I was diggin that Atari shirt!! I'm so old I had a "heavy sixer" vintage 1978! LOL!! Wish I still had it but I do still have my 1982 vintage Atari 800 with a whopping 48K. ;-)

[@johnanderson9494]

My Atari Joysticks stopped working years ago. I still have the 800 but not sure how to hook it up to a flatscreen monitor.

[@Novaheart1998]

I have an atari 800 with 48k and a heavy sixer 😉

[@BattleAngelSound]

It's worth even just for the patch at 5:00 :D Beside this, great sound. Very clear but in the same time full and powerful. Nice one

[@tommymandel]

Hi Dom, and thanks for all the great work! - All these sounds are also in the Montage, yes? (I have read Phil write that future sounds developed on the MODX will NOT be loadable into a Montage.) PS - the lightweight combined with the Montage subset features will make this a sure winner for Yamaha! thanks. PS - GREAT Feel at 3:12!!! wow.

[@30jersey478]

Guess I'm adding this to the list of things to buy. This is much more affordable than the Montage.

[@Dolores5000]

Fantastic

[@abinathkutty4977]

Nice

[@brianstewart1077]

The acoustic patches sound excellent, also some lovely squidgy acid noises in there

[@NatLifeSounds]

great video! finally not a crappy pianos demos) more electronic :D

[@gregorymonacelli2257]

Looks like a big learning curve. Does it have regular good piano, organ voices etc?

[@captainkiddoregon]

Several months back one of the local Yamaha resellers mentioned that Yamaha hinted at coming out with a pared down version of the Montage in August. I was looking at maybe getting a Montage for quite some time. I just loved the sounds that it produces. But it really is way more machine than I need, because I won't really dive into the whole FM programming. So when August came and went I just figured it was vaporware. Then the other day there was mention (leaks) about Yamaha officially releasing something new today. So not that it is out I can't wait to try one out. Thanks for this first look and sounds video Doctor Mix.

[@MacStoker]

yeah, some proper new synthporn haha cheers

[@MrPink-hf4ly]

Yep - der klingt echt richtig 😊

[@jesusprayerfellowship]

Which cost

[@dimax603]

Good ambient sounds

[@daeone1514]

aw this this is really nice.

[@user-re1uw9jk1m]

thank you so much Dom

[@d-rzarkocubrinoski]

Interesting sound.

[@Shmynkellbonkenstein]

Very cool sounds, was surprised by that good synth bass sound at 3:24

[@thegroupies9520]

Yamaha CS80 Still the Beast of beasts!

[@andytorre4858]

Bro I thought I was on the wrong Channel you're missing your cap and rings! I almost didn't recognize you!

[@aphexon.]

Andy Torre well not the same guy.

[@andytorre4858]

@@aphexon. oh, my bad!

[@dhruvrajsinhjadeja-vfxarti3085]

Superb....💐👍

[@emmanuelcastro5711]

Woow bro!!!! You play awesome!!!

[@anoopsahal1202]

Hey you sound like Dr Mix , but the look is like The Master in Doctor Who.

[@geraldperez2768]

Awesome!!!!! I want one!

[@radagastbrown1578]

I had a DX-7 for years. I loved the keyboard and all the expressive capabilities. One of those expressive capabilities that was very powerful was aftertouch. The MODX does NOT have aftertouch. A complete fail on Yamaha’s part.

[@st8kout961]

Well, it's the budget version of the Montage, which does have it, along with a better keybed. You get what you pay for.

[@kayandaeddings4803]

If I could afford that thing, I am pretty sure that I would have a lot of fun with it. God! I wish I had that keyboard along with the past ones that you guys have showed. I would like this one, the Yamaha reface CP, and YC.

[@Silvestian]

The transition is SMOOTH between sounds / instruments on MODX? :) THX!

[@nusifer]

It looks logical. The same they did with the Motif XF and the MoXF it's now with the Montage (I own one) and the MODX. Same than Korg is doing with the Kronos/Kross. The market shows the path for the brands. All it's about sound generation (AWM) and the architecture itself. Same than the Montage, same OS also. In my point of view AWM engine sounds more than great and the DX engine too.

[@wrldonwill]

That board is amazing! And nice chords, bruh!

[@witorudo1086]

Soo who win the prize from roland juno 106 video ?? :)

[@detektto7327]

Witorudo Good question 🤔

[@30FSch]

Man, that was some good playing!

[@borismarmillon8637]

very very nice demo!!!

[@germanvarelamuller]

amazing sounds

[@staszekpawelski1351]

I love your music! Thank you!

[@YotamPiano]

Hi Dom I just played the Montage 8 today at the music shop and it was f*** amazing in all aspects. I am definitely firm on my purchase. There was an MOXF8 near it which had plastic bulid and worse key action, prolly the MODX is gonna be similiar chassis so I won't bother.. I need something pro, the best of the best

[@mysticsailor9]

indeed a $99 casio puts the build quality of the moxf to shame...

Clavier très intéressant par rapport à son prix, l'important reste de faire de la musique,et si l'on peut le faire sans se ruiner. Une très bonne continuation musicale.

[@liamcrittenden]

Why didn’t this exist two weeks ago when I was deciding between the Roland Fa06/Juno Ds61 and the Korg Kross?! I ended up buying the Fa06, but this looks like Yamaha’s competitor against those two, having the nice acoustic sounds, while also having synthy stuff as well. Would be fun to see a competition video or a comparison at least between the three!

[@floridahiker1800]

I have a Juno DS 61 and will stay with Roland because for me Roland is easier to figure out and the analog sounds on it sounded better than the competition at the time.

[@MrTownsend]

Honestly having a Yamaha and a Korg gives you the best of both worlds. Where one lacks, the other picks up.

[@TechGently]

You dodged a bullet the Korg Kross is horrible. Sweetwater is offering zero % financing you could get the MODX and sell the Fa06.

[@liamcrittenden]

TechGently I sold the FA about a week ago just cause I was too busy in the menus or trying to program stuff rather than making music. The sounds were fantastic but idk, I just wasn’t feeling it. I sadly play drums too and spend way too much money on them too, so I decided to overall just save the money and put it aside towards anything kinda drum related like samples or cymbals or drum heads

[@liamcrittenden]

Like everything on the keyboard played well, it just wasn’t everything I thought it would be. And between also being a drummer and musician that’s spends to much money, I decided it would just be better to save it

[@jaredf6205]

You were great in Game of Thrones

[@FunGuardian]

Wowowowo, that's beautiful, how about quality sound if you compare with montage?

[@marvingonzalez6891]

I WANT ONE!!!!

[@BryanEddy09]

your vids are great and very useful thanks .getting the 7

[@andreabonetti5679]

It lacks phisical buttons in the right which I use to change sounds while playing on my yamaha mox. I guess you have to use the touch screen... Is it a good solution for live performance on stages? Other than that it's perfect

[@compucat]

I noticed this as well; I often use the button grid on the right to change sounds without needing to look down at the display at all. This is a major loss.

[@colbalt95]

Some people were talking about a little bit of lag with the touch screen. Even though it doesn't have asked to touch this no category search is really making me think hard about that

[@johnny711]

ordered

[@Wimpie1515]

No MIDI-thru. I fail to understand why this is left out.

[@MsDream1979]

ok this one is the first thing that can beat korg in the price range

[@valdiskrebs566]

Sounds great - and it’s NOT a remake of a famous 70s/80s/90s synth !!! MODX 6/7/8 - 1299/1499/1899 USD

[@fnonaka]

Here in Brazil the Modx6 costs U$ 1.840,00 lol it's an absurd!

[@diamondwebb5749]

Awesome

[@ricemilk3185]

Very fucking good

[@YotamPiano]

Dom or Doctor mix, also, can you do tutorial of Montage of good options/uses of Aftertouch in a synth/keyboard? what should one be assigning? like other than Vibrato/pitch or filter is there other uses?

[@nasimjons]

ron and wood if they would add these materials I imagine what would be the price of these tools yesterday looked at the store PSR S 970 wondered what to give 2000$ ? for plastic ? keys creak like a child's toy

[@rockstarsanzid786]

Just wow

[@jamontoast_music]

Amazing!

[@Skijumptoes]

I love my moxf and it will keep me happy for many more years, but I look forward to owning one of these down the road. I think Yamaha have done a grand job and focused on what players want, keeping the music enjoyable (any Yamaha MOxxxx synth delivers the smile when you play) is so important. An instrument is to be played and inspire you, save all that modular beeping bollocks that never gets used to the nerds. 😄

[@X22GJP]

Says the one who clearly doesn’t understand how modular synthesis works or how it can sound (clue...a lot like FM)

[@Skijumptoes]

@@X22GJP haha patronising and highly presumptuous. You pretty little thing xx

[@brianobush]

Wondering if FM operators have feedback, or are capable of other waveforms than just sine.

[@synjammer]

Hey man, nice shirt!

[@titomartinez3680]

Please, what's your setup to get so fantastic pure sound from MODX sound engines? Thank you

[@WidthSound-Music]

So good 😍

[@plantpoweredmuscle]

Can you control the superknob with an expression pedal?

[@geoffk777]

This is going to be a game changer. 90% of the capabilities of a Montage for 50% of the price (or less) at 33% of the weight. It makes the entire Motif series, the Roland FA and most of Korg's range obsolete overnight. It's simply a new standard in price, performance, sound and portability.

[@mysticsailor9]

hyperbole much?

[@geoffk777]

Hey, I own a Montage, Kronos and MOXF among other gear, so I'm just calling it as I see it. My Montage is the star of my studio but it was way too expensive and it remains too heavy and big to gig with. Yamaha has kept the sound, motion engine, FM and everything that I like about the Montage but made it half the price and easily giggable. It's like if Porsche started building 911's for Mazda Miata money, but these 911's also seat six easily. I own a MOXF8 (like I said) and compared to this, I think it's obsolete. The MODX has all of my MOXFs sounds but also hundreds of much better ones--including pianos and EPs that are just light years better. Sometime hyperbole is the right level of reaction.

[@jacobbrown1690]

do you work for yamaha lol.....it has no after touch, no sequencer, no sampling and limited midi fuctions. and half the polyphony of the montage in dx mode. so yea its limited ...not a game changer at all lol

[@geoffk777]

Ok, it has no after touch. So what? Neither did the MOXF or most of the synths in this price range. Anyway, some people, myself included, rarely ever use it The sequencer is a more controversial item. It does have a 16-track sequencer, but you can't really edit with it--only overwrite tracks that you don't like. As with the Montage, Yamaha expects that most users will use a DAW for sequencing. They even include a copy of CuBase to use for this. Some people find this reasonable. Personally, I think editing sequences in keyboard hardware is straight out of the 1990's, and I don't use it on instruments like the Kronos that can do it. It has no sampling, but it has 1.5 Gb to store Montage or Motif samples. That's good enough for me.. Also, it's a big improvement on the MOXF (where you had to buy an expensive flash RAM board) or most competitors (which can(t import any samples at all). Not sure what you mean by "limited MIDI functions", but it also has good USB connectors available. And half of the FM polyphony with 64 notes will be plenty for most people--especially when most competing synths have no FM engine at all. I don't work for Yamaha--but I am a big fan of their gear. I have a Montage 8 and a MOXF 8, and I can see that the MODX combines the best features of both units in a very appealing way. I might even replace both of these keyboards with one MODX.

[@simonlegrec]

For that money it sounds amazing....

[@paulp4243]

Why was the Right output lead plugged into the Left, and the Left output lead plugged into the Headphone socket. A mistake surely?

[@capmusicagod5958]

How many rhythms or rhythmic patterns does the modx have?.. please

[@lauren4773]

Switching from Montage to this.

[@VincentPride1986]

Yamaha rep: If you want to make youtube ad for our synth, you must rotate that fucking knob at least once every 10 sec You: Easy peazy

[@rickygarcia7400]

Way cooler looking than the mantage

[@poppopw5305]

Just imagining what Herbie Hancock could do with this board. FIERCE!!

[@brianbernstein3826]

he's so good he could probably even play Darude Sandstorm on here

[@TechGently]

And lose his sponsorship with Korg lol epic

[@mdasraf4424]

M.xx ..

[@terryro7]

Can you create your own beats on this ? Like when your in pattern mode and sequence mode on the other yamaha boards? This will be the deal breaker for me. Because i didn't see a pattern mode on this board.

[@thefutureishere5717]

What was the pad that you were playing at 2:22. I liked it alot

[@Roboprogs]

So can an expression pedal be (easily) mapped to mirror the super knob? (Pedal isn’t as precise as a knob, but it of course keeps your hands free)

[@Doctormix]

Sure is! It's plug and play ;)

[@pendaco]

3:19 That's 1 P H A T T BASS 🤪

[@Doctormix]

Yesss!

[@DestroyER82]

FM / digital part sounds really great, analog wannabie not really. Anyways as an all in one workstation its decent monster.

[@FlatTire]

I’d buy if it had separate assignable output

[@sjcongo]

Good sounds for 1990 👍 and the powerful 44khz soundcard 😂

[@annother3350]

!?!?

[@sunilsolanki]

Yamaha. Just give us a knob laden Fm synth. Like the eurorack Akemies Castle. With analog filters and effects. That's it.

[@anotherideaman2286]

Any vocoder functions like in the now discontinued MOXF6?

[@dsvet]

Can you play the song Jump by Van Halen on this?

[@markslandingsandaviationvi3123]

I would prefer the Jupiter XM over this. This Yamaha dosent have the sounds used in Victims of circumstance or Tangerine Dreams Logos. I like those sounds but it seems like no new synthesizer has them with is a shame!🥺

[@Miliussauce]

So basically turn the super knob and profit?

[@VaciouzVevo]

Man!!!!

[@Plato030986]

Can anyone explain me, why Yamaha didn't give the MODX a polyphony of 256 like on the Genos?

[@capmusicagod5958]

How many rhythms or rhythmic patterns does the modx have?