Multitimbral Synth Use with MTS?

[Drdrdaddeo]

I have an older Yamaha Tx-81Z Rack Mount multitimbral FM sound module that I’ve used for years to routinely play back 4 different tracs/channels of music simultaneously (outputted from my 8 track QX5 FD sequencer). I am now trying to use MTS for all my new compositions. If I have four different tracks/channels of new MIDI music recorded in MTS using MTSI Sounds to generate a draft multitimbral song, can I subsequently play back all four tracks into my TX-81Z simultaneously and get the same kind of multitimbral playback?

Thanks,
Ken Hardy

[Support]

Yes, this should work. Just replace the MTSi instances with External Instruments. Then make sure the MIDI channels and Programs are OK (the program number goes in the Bank : Prog box.

A quick peek at the tx81 manual brought up some program change settings, you might need to look at that to get the programs to work.


Giel Bremmers

[Drdrdaddeo]

Thanks Giel, you’re the best.

I was recently GIVEN a superb old Yamaha MU-80 module. It is also polyphonic and highly multitimbral, with over 600 amazing 18-bit instrument sounds. It should work with MTS similarly (but more expansively) than my old Tx81Z, and with much higher quality sound. I am in the process of rerecording my entire back catalog of multitrack original and copy music for live performance purposes. A quick stage setup with the MU-80, my ipad, my presonus interface, and my ALESIS G88 USB keyboard, should provide me a compact stage rig complete with unlimited MIDI and Audio backing tracks. To this end your assistance is proving invaluable.

Thanks,
Ken Hardy/Drdrdaddeo.