Anyone want to help this person with their MOXF8?

[MoKen]

CL cry for help

 

https://chico.craigslist.org/muc/d/orland-yamaha-moxf8-please-help/7063600346.html

 

[Mr. Nightime]

I can understand her frustration. My church has one, and I hate it. You turn it on, and hit a note, expecting it to start with piano, and it is some really loud obnoxious pattern. My Yamaha MM8 you start it up, and get the piano right away.

 

I have no idea why Yamaha decided to do something different.

 

As far as helping with it, I have not spent enough time with it to be even slightly comfortable

[SamuelBLupowitz]

Oh my goodness. A Craigslist post for the ages.

 

As much as I want to laugh at this person, we all can have our tech troubles. A drummer I work with and I were trying to set up another drummer's electronic sample pad for a low-volume living room rehearsal. We got the green light to borrow the pad, but neither of us had ever used it before, so there was a lot of trial and error with which cable goes where, how to find a kit that sounded right, how to trigger crash cymbals, how to activate the attached kick trigger, etc.

 

Then as we were scrolling through sample sets, one of them started looping a very loud montuno groove, with congas, guiro, salsa piano, the whole bit. The two of us, two grown men in our 30s and 40s, one of whom is a technology professional, could not figure out how to make it stop. We had to power the thing down and turn it back on again. It was truly a sight to behold.

[richforman]

Wonder what older Yams she found so much easier? My experience historically they've all been pretty challenging to work with. I've had a DX7, an S-80 and an MOXF8 which has been relegated in my rig to the role of strictly a bottom-board/controller for the piano parts in my Korg Kronos' combis, with the Korg as my sole sound source. I actually miss some of the sounds on the MOXF8, a few of them (notably sax) I think are superior to those on the Kronos, but for me the simplicity of this setup makes it worth the compromise.

[AnotherScott]

I can understand her frustration. My church has one, and I hate it. You turn it on, and hit a note, expecting it to start with piano, and it is some really loud obnoxious pattern.

Yes, I remember my first experience with the MO-X. I plugged it in, turned it on, hit a note, and heard a "loud obnoxious pattern" -- and because I didn't yet know what front panel button did what, I couldn't stop it! I had to pull the plug, so to speak, to get it to shut up. Not a great first impression. Kind of like going up to a pretty girl, starting a conversation, and having her belch in return.