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Listen to the Yamaha XS8 through these:
Yamaha StagePas 300, Yamaha StagePas 500
Roland SA-300 (get a pair)
Recording tools for your Yamaha XS8
Yamaha AW1600 hard disk-based multitrack recorder
Korg D888 hard disk-based recording studio
Alesis MultiMix 8USB mixer/audio interface
Yamaha XS8 Description
Replacing the Yamaha MOTIF ES8, the 88 key balanced keyboard XS8 and it's two brothers the XS6 & XS7 (with standard synth keyboards) 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 & SX7).
1,457 (W) x 466 (D) x 168 (H) mm, 28.6 kg
Full specification of Yamaha XS8
Marketing blurb for Yamaha XS8
Yamaha XS8 reviews
Bert Smorenburg on XS8 @ NAMM '07
Stevie Wonder (really) on SX8 @ NAMM07
Yamaha XS8 resources
XS8 manual as soon as it is available
MOTIF XS Editor as soon as it is available