The Yamaha Montage M: 6 Months In Real World Usage
A six-month review is a different beast from a release-day one. The honeymoon is over. The early enthusiasm has cooled. The features that demoed well in the showroom have either earned their place in your daily workflow or quietly been abandoned, and the features you initially overlooked have either continued to be irrelevant or become indispensable. This is a six-month review of the Yamaha Montage M, the M8X variant specifically, from the perspective of someone using it as the centrepiece of a hybrid hardware rig rather than a stage instrument or a sound-design lab. The conclusions are mine, the use case is specific, and your mileage will genuinely vary, but the patterns I have noticed are likely to repeat across other working setups. ...