Search:

Review of the Yamaha MM6

June 23rd, 2011

Yamaha MM6 Synthesizer

My first experience with the Yamaha MM6 was born of necessity—I wanted to continue playing piano, but just didn’t have the money or space for one in my apartment. Little did I think that this purchase would change how I thought about music. Once I bought the Yamaha MM6 I began to realize what a real treasure I had on my hands. Now, not only can I “play piano”, but I can also play bass, guitar, and drums. With all the options available on this keyboard I can be my own one man rock band or chamber music orchestra! With the Yamaha MM6 I can create classical pieces or modern contemporary, rock tunes or house music.

Yamaha MM6: Versatility

The Yamaha MM6 synthesizer is considered a “professional level” mid-range 61 key synthesizer that boasts over 418 voices and 22 onboard drum kits. It has has four different wheels to control the timbre of the voices by changing the cutoff, resonance, release and attack.

Product features of Yamaha MM6 synthesizer include:

• Product model number: it’s MM6
• Product Dimensions: it’s 44 inches by 18.5 inches by 9 inches
• Product weight : around 30 pounds
• 61 keys which are synth action velocity sensitive
• Superb high sound level
• Equipped with Professional Quality Sound and Control
• Provides complete instrumental backing to accompany song creation and live performance
• Welcome tools to create dynamic music such as Arpeggiator generators and automatic Pattern
• Comes with performance memory needed for instant setting changes in the full panel
• Equipped with various song recording characters with 1 Pattern track and 8 normal tracks
• An additional set of in-built 128 GM voices to help in the play back of songs recorded in popular format
• 1 GM drum kit
• AWM2 Tone Generator
• 418 normal voices
• on board 22 drum kits
• 8 banks of 8 performance settings
• 25 reverb types
• 30 chorus types
• 5 master EQ types
• 32-note polyphony
• 16-part mulitimbral capacity
• 70MB wave ROM (in 16-bit linear format)
• Easy to use with the “Category Search” option
• Affordable price
• Customer rating : 4.5 stars
• Shipping advisory: Yamaha MM6 must be sent separately if you have ordered other items with this
• Shipping Weight : around 43.1 pounds
• Shipping availability: currently the Yamaha MM6 can be shipped just within America and to FPO/APO addresses. For FPO/APO shipments, kindly check with manufacturer regarding support issues and warranty

Sequencer
* 96 parts per quarter note resolution
* Real-time replace recording
* 3 preset songs, 5 user songs
* 400 song max. with USB
* 213 preset arpeggio types
* 11-280 BPM tempo range
* 168 patterns (x4 sections)

Professional Quality Sound and Control

The Yamaha MM6 synthesizer is perfect for musicians of every caliber and level. Why pay more for the same quality? This keyboard is known among musicians as the “Mini Mo” because it utilizes the pro-level MOTIF series workstation’s sound engine, creating a mid-sized, mid-priced instrument capable of producing realistic voice tones and dynamic, high-quality music. It is easy to label this a professional instrument given its capabilities and power, but make no mistake the Yamaha MM6 can also produce professional results from even the most novice of users.

Yamaha MM6: Ease of Use

The MM6 has knobs and instrumentation that allow you to create and change sounds as you play, allowing you to tweak your performance real-time. This synth also has a variety of rhythms, licks, and riffs up its sleeve, with musical patterns that feel “human”. This keyboard is perfect for all genres of music, from hip-hop to jazz to rock to world music. Within minutes of plugging in the Yamaha MM6 you can create tracks that sound like they belong on the dance floor.

The MM6 Arpeggiator

If you’ve dreamed of becoming a professional DJ or sound producer, your purchase of the Yahama MM6 can be your first step towards that goal! This keyboard has 213 arpeggiator types already installed allowing you to create multiple note patterns and rhythmic phrases. Many of the MM6’s arpeggiator types use piano and guitar voices to generate the types of patterns you will play using your left hand, with bass and drum rhythm loops that you can free-style over with your right. This feature allows the Yamaha MM6 to create pop, dance, and house music effortlessly.
<

The Yamaha MM6: Professional Results at an Affordable Price

The technical specs on the Yamaha MM6 speak for themselves. Whether you’re a professional or a newcomer to the music scene, this keyboard is a pint-sized powerhouse. For about the same cost as a guitar you can get a guitar, a piano, an organ, a drum kit, a strings section and a production studio all in one package. And, any inconvenience from lugging heavy equipment to gigs disappears with a keyboard that weighs under twelve pounds. User reviews of this product on Amazon and other music retail sites are more than positive. In a five star product rating system the Yamaha MM6 generally rates in the 4.5 – 5 star range, a respectable feat for any musical instrument.

Your purchase of the Yamaha MM6 allows you to bring your artistic and musical aspirations to fruition, but also puts you in the producer’s chair.
< <

 

Yamaha MM6"the yamaha mm6 and accessories"

Yamaha MM6 – the Professionals Choice

June 17th, 2011

The Yamaha MM6 Synthesizer – Music Machine For Pros

The Yamaha MM6 synthesizer is the musical instrument chosen by musical professionals as preferred stage and studio equipment the world over. We all have dreamed of how it would feel to play in a rock band, and play every night before a live audience, and let them jump and scream to the songs we have produced. But there is always a difference between dreaming and doing, and where to begin, and even, how to begin. Why make the Yamaha MM6 your choice?

Playing music comes with using and adapting the right tools and instruments. Would you try to slam a nail in a piece of wood with a pair of pliers, or would you use a hammer?

The choice of the right musical tool or instrument as an amateur or professional musician is of much importance. And you may even have to try a few different instruments before you have found the one of your choice. Look at what all the professionals are using, and in the synthesizer world three brands stand out from the crowd. So, forget the crowd, and use what the pros use. Yamaha, Korg and Roland are the top brands, and are the most sold synthesizers around the world. This also means they have the funds and know-how to research for future generations of their instruments. Yamaha has always been on the frontier end of the synthesizer industry.

The First Yamaha MM6 Synthesizer

When in January 2007 the first Yamaha MM6 synthesizer keyboards hit the market they took it by storm. The Yamaha digital pianos have been seriously popular ever since they came out, but the synthesizing power in these new instruments is just incredible. The MM6 delivers more than expected, as the features seem so endless. Whether you are a professional musician, or play music as a hobby, or work on music compositions as a deejay creating dance music, or love to have some extra tools in your studio, the Yamaha MM6 should be among your top choices.


Features Of The Yamaha MM6 Keyboard

The MM6 has all in all 61 synth style and velocity sensitive keys which makes playing the electronic instrument easy. 418 synth voices are stored in its powerful memory. The sounds it can produce come close to high definition. The machine lets itself handle so well that dynamic music creation is as easy as 1-2-3. The tools available can create automatic patterns and the instrument also includes advanced arpeggiator generator functions. The Yamaha MM6 holds a large variety of drum kits, 22 in total, which makes it a very affordable drum machine, and is often used in the creation of drum & bass music.

The Yamaha MM6 stores such a variety of instruments deep in its memory, all the instruments you are looking for in your compositions are readily available. Bass guitar, solo guitar, lead guitar, strings, organ, synth – it is all available through easy to use category search functions. The Yamaha MM6 is not only easy to play because of its 61 smooth keys but also because of its four highly functional wheels which are able to control the timbre of the voices by altering the attack, release, cut-off and resonance for the audible sounds.

Yamaha MM6 Arpeggiator Generators

An arpeggiator generator is not available on all synthesizers, but the MM6 has full functionality. The arpeggiator generators allow the user to automatically run sequences of different notes implementing them in a chord in order to create an arpeggio. The Yamaha MM6 arpeggiator generator has extremely advanced features which allow various arpeggios to play simultaneously.

Deejays and Sound Engineers
Deejays love the Yamaha MM6 because it is easy to carry and they can store a large quantity of data which they can playback during their sets. The 11 to 280 BPM (beats per minute) settings allow you to hook it in to live music mixes while on stage. Studio engineers love the MM6 too, as it allows them to record and playback on 8 tracks, and quickly snap up some additional sounds, instruments and noises for their end mixes. The Yamaha MM6 is just so versatile.

Cubase Music Production Softwareh3>

Yamaha MM6: Computer Compatible

These days everything is computerized, including the music. The

Yamaha MM6

is built to integrate with your computer’s musical system. The USB, which in 2007 was pretty new on the market, connects the Yamaha MM6 to your personal computer or laptop, and with the Cubase LE music production package which comes with the synthesizer, you own a complete digital music studio. This package enables you to take the recorded synth performance data, mix it up, add effects, arrange the track and create a final mix with professional results. The USB system makes sharing and transferring data a piece of cake. USB is also the key to carry large quantities of data around and enables you to plug in a thumb drive or a portable hard drive to have all the data freedom you want Just plug in your jump drive to upload the songs, patterns, riffs, and licks you’ve stored. Now your sound on the Yamaha MM6 is portable–perfect for the on the go musician, DJ, or producer. The Yamaha MM6 is really an out of the box plug and play apparatus which will deliver hours of pleasure, and quality compositions. At just under $600 dollars the Yamaha MM6 Synthesizer is among the most modern, powerful, and easy to use synthesizers money can buy. It is one of the most advanced keyboards on the market, easy to carry and a joy to play. The Yamaha MM6 rocks!