Now Chicken Systems, a company that supplies tools for samplers, has come up with their first product in a new series, Motif Creator. Designed to support the Yamaha Motif, Motif ES and Motif XS keyboards, this software allows you to manipulate samples inside Yamaha files which is something the Yamaha editors do not allow. While the Yamaha editors talk to the hardware directly, Motif Creator only works with files...no need to have the synth fired up to set up patch banks using samples
--- The feature that has me ready to buy is the ability to open up "All Voice" files dumped from a Motif and move patches between them. An All Voice file contains not only the patch data but also all the samples used by those patches. Previously, moving patches with samples from one bank to another was a cumbersome manual procedure that required the user to figure out what samples were used by each patch, find where those samples were loaded in memory and then edit the patch to point to them. Motif Creator does all this for you automatically.
--- A cool secondary feature is importing patches from Kontakt, NN-XT, SoundFont, etc. libraries and dropping them into an All Voice file ready to go...no need to program a new Motif patch, load and map all the individual samples, etc.
--- Finally the software can export the samples from the All Voice file into an editor, tweak the samples and then export back in to the All Voice file with no need to edit inside the Motif any more.
Even after 5 years of owning a Motif, I seldom use the sampler for anything because working with patch banks containing multisampled patches was a lot of work. Motif Creator changes the whole game.
Chicken Systems promises more products in the Creator series (for Fantoms, Tritons, MPCs?). It should be interesting to see how this develops.
