Remember there is no VA engine onboard, yet the synth sounds have a very analogue feel and presence - putting a sawtooth poly patch up against an analogue Alesis Andromeda, it was surprising just how close you could get to the raw tone. "If you're after warm pads, juicy and cutting leads, deep basses and funky comping patches, the MOXF is hard to beat" The range and quality of the sounds, presets and arps is class-leading and the warm and natural vibe is where the MOXF really scores above its rivals. Polyphony has also been doubled to 128 notes (so less note stealing) and the entire waveform ROM of the flagship Motif XF is now onboard which is fantastic. Each voice can have up to eight elements and the waveform ROM has been increased from 355MB (on the MOX) to 741MB, which also results in 136 more voices including the quality S6 grand sample. The sound engine on the MOXF6 is based on Yamaha's acclaimed AWM2 (with expanded articulation) architecture. So, if you want to make smooth filter changes it's essential to assign the filter to the mod wheel or to a control pedal. Unfortunately, the filter stepping issue we highlighted when we reviewed the MOX8 is still present and we attribute this to the dials being of the click-stepped type, rather than smoothly travelling pots. In addition, you can now press both knob control buttons together for quick access to part volume and pan in Performance mode and part volume in Mixing mode. These dials can also be mapped to the VST editor/Cubase AI (both included) or you can use them to control other DAW's when in DAW Remote mode. Like the MOX6, the MOXF6 has eight real-time dials for directly controlling 32 important sound parameters on the fly including the various filters, portamento, ADSR, volume, panning, EQ, effect levels and the arpeggiator. This is further compounded by the amount of button pressing involved during editing tasks and the sheer number of front panel options can also be a little overwhelming. Also, as it's monochrome it's hard to decipher one area of the screen from another and with lots of parameters to cram in, deep programming can be tiring.
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