Yamaha MOTIF6, MOTIF7, MOTIF8, Music Production Synthesizer ■Creating a Song, ■Creating Rhythm track

Sampling with Song Playback (Integrated Sampling Sequencer)

Sampling with Song Playback (Integrated Sampling Sequencer)

In this section, we’ll delve into one of the most important and powerful features of the MOTIF — the Integrated Sampling Sequencer.

Today’s digital music producers and artists use a mutlitude of advanced tools to get the job done — including MIDI, sampling, audio editing and much more. Cutting and pasting beats, loops and patterns together is an integral part of the music making process. The MOTIF lets you work in the same way, fully integrating sampling with MIDI sequencing — making it easier than ever before to produce great tracks.

Below is a summary of the steps you’ll take as you create a new song.

■Creating Rhythm track

1Sampling to a Pattern Track

2Recording MIDI data to a Pattern Track

3Assigning a Preset Phrase to a Pattern Track (Patch function)

4Using the Groove function

5Pattern Mixing

6Creating the Pattern Chain

■Creating a Song

7Copy the Pattern Chain data to the Song

8MIDI recording to Song Tracks

9Sampling to Song Track

10Song Track Mute and Scene

11Song Mixing and storing the settings as a template

12Saving and Exporting the recorded song to external PC (File Utility)

Quick Start Guide

MOTIF Quick Start Guide 99