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Listen to the Yamaha XS6 through these:
Yamaha StagePas 300, Yamaha StagePas 500
Roland SA-300 (get a pair)
Recording tools for your Yamaha XS6
Yamaha AW1600 hard disk-based multitrack recorder
Korg D888 hard disk-based recording studio
Alesis MultiMix 8USB mixer/audio interface
Yamaha XS6 Description
Positioned above the Yamaha MO6 and replacing the Yamaha MOTIF ES6, the 61 key XS6 and it's two brothers the XS7 & XS8 all launched at NAMM Jan 2007 are Yamaha's high-end synthesizer and production workstation.
Featuring the new 8 component Expanded Articulation (XA), said to be amazing for creating acoustic sounds, the XS also has 355MB of stored sounds plus upto 1GB of onboard sampling memory, 4 simultanious arpeggiators and every conceivable connection including ethernet (FireWire optional on XS6/7, standard on XS8).
1,045 (W) x 391 (D) x 122 (H) mm, 14.8 kg
Full specification of Yamaha XS6
Marketing blurb for Yamaha XS6
Yamaha XS6 reviews
XS6 reviews as soon as they are written
Yamaha XS6 resources
XS6 manual as soon as it is available
MOTIF XS Editor... as soon as it ships