The keyboard features 49 full-size velocity-sensitive keys. Motif XS gave MX series over 1000 Voices including appraised acoustic tones such as piano, electric piano, strings and drums as well as complex synth sounds with the Yamaha’s 8-element structure. Use the Category Selection function to find the needed sounds quicker.

VCM (Virtual Circuit Modeling) engine is introduced into MX keyboards providing you with the vintage effects including EQs, phasers, flangers, wah-wahs making the rare and unique retro nuances liven up your music phrases. It’s simple to use splitting and layering combining two voices and a drum track applying proprietary intelligent arpeggiators. The keyboard supplies 128 pre-programmed but reconfigurable Performances. Each Performance carries up to 3 sounds.

MX49 features a 128-note polyphony and 16-part multitimbrality owing to which you can have 16-part Multis and play back most complex and thick sequences created with your DAW.

The instrument offers a bi-directional USB audio/MIDI interface. MX units do quite a lot - control DAWs, monitor sounds from the computer via MX headphone output, interact with such gear as external studio monitors and PAs. It’s called bi-directional due to the ability to record MX onboard sounds to your computer delivering highest possible quality. MX audio converters are a professional level component.

Again Yamaha focuses on Cubase support offering a dedicated AI knob controlling any parameter. There are also templates for use with other DAWs. Remote Templates are included to set up control for various VSTs.

MX series comes bundled with software tools including Steinberg Cubase AI, Steinberg Prologue and the Yamaha YC-3B organ emulator.

You can connect USB devices to MX or make your instrument interact with a tablet via mini stereo cable.

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