About 4 weeks ago I was checking out keyboards and tried the Motif Rack. I thought it sounded great and attempted to purchase one. To make a long story short, it had to be ordered so I ordered it. In the interim period, I have reconsidered the wisdom of this purchase.
First, the Motif is, to me, more of a "real" instrument emulator than a synth as it were. To emulate real instruments, the best possible thing to have is a sampler. Now, I have the Kontakt software sampler and I am waiting for the Garritan Strings to be released in a Kontakt version. Also, there are a few good libraries that have orchestral sounds for the Kontakt and I am looking into those.
In the end, I don't really see how the Motif Rack has all that much to offer. It has some good keyboard sounds, Rhodes, Wurly, Acoustic Piano, some Hammond-esque sounds, Clav etc. but I already have a bucn of those sounds and certainly I have some very usable ones.
So I believe my decision is to forego the Motif and put the thousand dollars towards a computer upgrade. I have a Mac G4 with a 733 khz processor. It would be in my best interest to obtain a dual processor Mac and use the one I have only for soft synths and samplers. I have used the Spectrasonics Styuls program and love it. This is the way to go and I am interested in more of this kind of thing.
I believe that the Motif Rack is already a dinosaur. It is almost obsolete in that it is hardware and hardware synths other than controller keyboards are on the way out, software is on the way in and, frankly, the way to go.
Do YOU have an opinion on this subject. I would love to hear what others are thinking about this very subject which, ultimately, is a software vs. hardware debate of sorts.
First, the Motif is, to me, more of a "real" instrument emulator than a synth as it were. To emulate real instruments, the best possible thing to have is a sampler. Now, I have the Kontakt software sampler and I am waiting for the Garritan Strings to be released in a Kontakt version. Also, there are a few good libraries that have orchestral sounds for the Kontakt and I am looking into those.
In the end, I don't really see how the Motif Rack has all that much to offer. It has some good keyboard sounds, Rhodes, Wurly, Acoustic Piano, some Hammond-esque sounds, Clav etc. but I already have a bucn of those sounds and certainly I have some very usable ones.
So I believe my decision is to forego the Motif and put the thousand dollars towards a computer upgrade. I have a Mac G4 with a 733 khz processor. It would be in my best interest to obtain a dual processor Mac and use the one I have only for soft synths and samplers. I have used the Spectrasonics Styuls program and love it. This is the way to go and I am interested in more of this kind of thing.
I believe that the Motif Rack is already a dinosaur. It is almost obsolete in that it is hardware and hardware synths other than controller keyboards are on the way out, software is on the way in and, frankly, the way to go.
Do YOU have an opinion on this subject. I would love to hear what others are thinking about this very subject which, ultimately, is a software vs. hardware debate of sorts.