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Listen to the Yamaha XS7 through these:
Yamaha StagePas 300, Yamaha StagePas 500
Roland SA-300 (get a pair)
Recording tools for your Yamaha XS7
Yamaha AW1600 hard disk-based multitrack recorder
Korg D888 hard disk-based recording studio
Alesis MultiMix 8USB mixer/audio interface
Yamaha XS7 Description
Replacing the Yamaha MOTIF ES7, the 76 key XS7 and it's two brothers the XS6 & XS8 all launched at NAMM Jan 2007 are Yamaha's high-end synthesizer and production workstations.
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).
1,252 (W) x 391 (D) x 122 (H) mm, 17.0 kg
Full specification of Yamaha XS7
Marketing blurb for Yamaha XS7
Yamaha XS7 reviews
Yamaha XS7 review on IT-review site
Yamaha XS7 resources
XS7 manual as soon as it is available
MOTIF XS Editor soon