Yamaha Mm6 Styles

Introduction Over here at Yamaha Musician.com, we pulled up a bench, snatched a sustain pedal and went to work evaluating the Yamaha MM6. Silence yourself savages rar. At first glance, the MM6 is stealthy looking and incredibly light (about 11lbs.) which is great for gigs or taking it to a friend's house for some jamming. This keyboard is a 61-key, 32-voice, five-octave keyboard with an eight-track sequencer (ninth track for rhythms), and 70MB of sound wave data consisting of hundreds of patches, FX programs, and rhythms. The MM6 was obviously laid out to give you quick control over very commonly used features such as the four real-time knobs to tweak your sounds, your sequencer for recording, and the very handy arpeggiator for creating some impressive patterns and rhythms for your sequences. Sounds The Yamaha MM6's sounds were derived from their workstation pro-series keyboards.

However, we were mostly impressed by the synth lead and pad programs. There were lots of big beefy synths, and lush sweeping pads. There were some choir programs but they were dull sounding. The keyboard and organ programs are also worth mentioning.

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We were impressed with the electric piano programs (5 different variations) especially the Galaxy EP program which is DX-7 nostalgia. There were lots of great organ programs too (about 20). They ranged from dark to bright, percussive and jazzy with rotary effects preset. If you need decent guitar/bass sounds, the Yamaha MM6 delivers. The acoustic guitars were very expressive; the harder you hit a key, the guitars got brighter and seemed almost like it went from being plucked by a finger to plucked by a fingernail.

Naturally, there were steel, clean, funk, 12-string, distortion, and wah-wah guitars available in the arsenal too. Some of these programs utilized the arpeggiator making for some really cool pre-programmed guitar rhythms and some stares by people. For those interested in movie soundtrack type of sounds, the strings and brass categories will be of interest to you. There are some lush spacious string, pizzicato, and ensemble programs and, of course, the individual string instrument programs including harps, orchestra hits, and a contrabass. I really liked the lush string programs over the individual string programs. The pre-programmed vibrato on the violins and cellos weren't that great, however, I have yet to come across a keyboard that does deliver a realistic vibrato.