Frank Markow, Ph.D.

In a previous post I threatened to upload samples of the Yamaha MO 6, and so here it is! I have had some time to figure the beast out, and so for your listening pleasure are two very different sonic creations, both of which I think highlight the usefulness of the MO 6 as a creative tool.

 1. The first is a track I produced for our church’s veteran’s day program, and you should be able to recognize the tune, though you will have to supply the melody yourself, since I was only concerned with the background music, I played the melody live on the guitar. This track took probably around 10 hours to sequence, and a lot of that time was “learning curve” time. If I did it again it would probably only take 4 or 5. This is a good example of how the MO can be used to produce full tracks of Motif goodness! Believe it or not, I did begin to hit the polyphony max with this, though there are never more than 5 tracks going on at a time - I think the voices I used were fairly dense and so took up more alloted room. The Mo was a total joy to use, and I stayed up late at night tweaking this, only the though of getting up early the next morning could drag me away ;

2. This is a very improvisational (read: not that good) piece using one of the performance voices (’chillin’ if I recall). The voices are gorgeous - if only may playing was! But, the point of posting this is this: the Mo has so many quality sound sets grouped together, it makes the creative process easy. All I did for this was find the performance and start jamming, making it up along the way. Again, a total blast which only early morning realities could pull me away from.