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I got one of the Output Platform desks. Love the desk but you are limited on size and weight on the slide-out shelf. I've had a Keystation 88es on it with no issues until today. SW just delivered a KeyLab 88 Essentials.

If I measured correctly, it will fit just fine. I will relegate the KeyStation to the practice studio at the guitar player's house so I won't need to lug anything back and forth. My Kronos 88 will NOT fit on that shelf. Nor will my MODX7.

I already had a KeyLab 61 mk1 that fits on it just fine, just prefer to have an 88 on there.

 

On another note, a lot of the computer desks that a lot of us have pressed into service in our studios have shelves that were designed more to hold a QWERTY keyboard, not a REAL keyboard. lol

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Behringer: Crave, Poly D, XR-18, RX1602 | CPS: SpaceStation SSv2 | 
Controllers: ROLI RISE 49 | Arturia KeyLab Essentials 88, KeyLab 61, MiniLab | M-Audio KeyStation 88 & 49 | Akai EWI USB |
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That is why the Output desk fell off my list of keyboard work desks first. When I looked at their list of keyboards that fit none of the ones I was considering fit. A lot of the keyboard seem to be too tall. You'd thing Output would of made changes by now to fit more keyboards.
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As someone who designed a desk from scratch last year, one of the hardest constraints is around keyboard height - and the Montage 8 is unusually tall at 6.68 inches. Trying to give yourself enough legroom, while keeping key tops at an appropriate level and not having the desktop surface absurdly high put this particular Yamaha right out of the running for me. Ditto for a number of Kawai keyboards I might otherwise have found appealing for their action. I wound up leaving 6.5" of vertical space on the keyboard tray, which was pretty much what I saw in the most expansive commercial offerings.

 

I had hoped that Yamaha would address this particular issues with a Montage successor, but alas I had to commit to something else rather than waiting forever.

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