Anyone use the Yamaha USB driver?

PeterMcCStrat · Post by **PeterMcCStrat** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 9:10 pm

Usually the Yammy drivers are real bad,. anyone using it well?

how bout the UB version as well?

thanks

Peter

bmills3 · Post by **bmills3** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 10:05 pm

Been using the USB-MIDI driver fine for both PPC & UB with 4 different Powerbooks and now MPB. All have worked fine, but you're best off to check www.yamahasynth.com for latest updates. I don't have any experience with USB audio drivers, so if you're talking about that, I'm no help.

stephen1212b · Post by **stephen1212b** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 11:39 pm

Works here with thier hardware.

HCMarkus · Post by **HCMarkus** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 1:04 am

USB MIDI works great with my Motif ES and hte Yamaha driver. I did have to break the ground/shield connections on the Motif USB cable to eliminate a low-level ground noise in my 828mkII.

PeterMcCStrat · Post by **PeterMcCStrat** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 3:31 pm

thanks Guys,

anyone use the Studio Manager software with the Motif on a Mac Pro and DP?

Peter

chadd · Post by **chadd** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 3:59 pm

HCMarkus wrote:USB MIDI works great with my Motif ES and the Yamaha driver. I did have to break the ground/shield connections on the Motif USB cable to eliminate a low-level ground noise in my 828mkII.

I had a hum in the audio outputs of my S90 synth when connecting it via USB. I found that unplugging my USB printer improved it significantly, but I'd be interested in details of how you modified your cable.

Sorry to drift off topic. The Yamaha USB-MIDI drivers have been working well for me in OS 10.3.9 on a G4.

seasiderecording · Post by **seasiderecording** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 11:20 pm

I use the usb with my S90 es. MIDI works fine. I am frustrated with trying to get the studio manager to work. Very poor documentation.

HCMarkus · Post by **HCMarkus** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 12:19 am

chadd wrote:I had a hum in the audio outputs of my S90 synth when connecting it via USB. I found that unplugging my USB printer improved it significantly, but I'd be interested in details of how you modified your cable.

See this: http://www.unicornation.com/phpBB2/view ... usb+ground

I concur: Studio Manager documentation sucks big time.

PeterMcCStrat · Post by **PeterMcCStrat** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 5:09 pm

thanks guys,

I noticed on my Powerbook that using the USB driver and SM Software, the patch names are not available within DP anymore.

seems strange?, is this correct?

thanks

Peter

HCMarkus · Post by **HCMarkus** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:34 pm

Motif ES Patches are still available in DP for me via the USB connection, but I don't use Studio Manager. I was left confused and frightened by my experimentation with this incomprehensible creation of Dr. Yamaha. I now just say "NO."

scooter · Post by **scooter** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 1:00 am

I've got the Yamaha Motif XS7. I can't see how using the studio manager software could be of any help unless maybe you use Cubase.

Scooter

monkey man · Post by **monkey man** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 7:37 am

scooter wrote:...I've got the Yamaha Motif XS7...

My dream machine.

You bugger.

Any word on whether a rack version will come out?

PeterMcCStrat · Post by **PeterMcCStrat** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 9:18 am

scooter wrote:I've got the Yamaha Motif XS7. I can't see how using the studio manager software could be of any help unless maybe you use Cubase.

Scooter

I am a former Nuendo user and yes,..DP has much better MIDI features but still,..

Studio manager lets you adjust each patches tone, and effects etc,..
Lets you select what master effects.
it was integrated into the Nuendo project so the type of effect and EQ of each Motif part would open with each project.

This works way better for me as I'm not a keyboard player (don't sit in front of the MotifES) and can't stand being hunched over scrolling through that tiny Motif screen.
All things handled in one place rather than 2.

Also the voice editor that works to edit each part in the same way

I figured that saving the SM software as a startup clipping in DP would be similar to how it operates in Nuendo.
But not if I can't see the patch names in DP

Not worth it, I rarely even use the Motif ES anymore, little at a time I've replaced all sounds I need with great soft librarys.

So, guess I'll just stay old school.

thanks

PM

scooter · Post by **scooter** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 11:43 am

Yeah, what I guess I'm saying is that it looks like Studio Manager is a great thing if you have Cubase because it actually lets you bring up you Motif XS as a plug in within Cubase with the patch list and each patch list can be edited. But that feature is not available for D.P. users. Oh well. Has anyone had any luck with Cubase 4??

scooter

markg · Post by **markg** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 1:10 pm

Is there a way to disable the extra ports so they don't show up in DP?

In Audio MIDI Setup I added a "YAMAHA ES8" device and connected it to Port 1 of the ES8 interface. This shows up fine in DP but I also get 8 "YAMAHA MOTIF ES YAMAHA MOTIF ES Portx" (one for each port).

Is there some way to remove these extra ports?

Mark