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mOtIX / mOX / s-serIes
John Melas
The John Melas Total Librarian for
XS series is a complete librarian
solution for the Yamaha MOTIF
XF, MOTIF XS, S90 XS/S70 XS,
MOTIF-RACK XS and MOX
synthesizers. It‘s a librarian for
Voices, Performances, Multis
and Masters which helps you
organize your sound collection in a
convenient way.
It’s also a complete editing environment
since it integrates with all the different
XS series editors: Voice Editor, Drum Kit
Editor, Performance Editor, Mix Editor, and
Master Editor.
The main reasons Total Librarian was developed
and is appreciated are:
• It helps you to backup your sounds
and recall them easily, without using
an USB stick. For example you can
use Total Librarian to save a single
Performance including the User
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Voices it uses and send it to a friend
• It helps you auditioning the sounds of
a sound collection
• It helps you to reorder your sounds
via drag and drop. This feature is
fantastic for live players who want to
reorganize their setlists!
• It helps you to combine Voices,
Performances, Multis*, or Masters
from different files to create your own
“favorites” collections
• And last but not least it can convert
sounds from different XS series
synths! This feature is particularly
nice for the MOX, which cannot
directly load any XS series files!
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fIles
Total Librarian introduces two proprietary
file formats: “Total Library Files” and “Voice
Files”. It allows a unlimited number of files
to be opened simultaneously.
Voice Files:
These files can hold an unlimited number of
Normal Voices and Drum Kits. They serve
as Voice “pools” from which you can select
the Voices to be sent to Total Library files
or to the synth. The support of comments
for each Voice makes it very easy to find a
particular Voice.
Total Library Files:
These files can hold all the User Banks of
your synth. They support User Voices, User
Drum Kits, Performances, Multis*, and Mas-
ters. Their capacity is limited to the capacity
of the synth’s memory, because they are
designed to have the exactly same structure.
To create a new Total Library File select File
→ New Total Library from the main menu.
An empty file will be created.
To receive sounds from your synthesizer,
you have to select Edit → Receive All from
the main menu. The User slots of the file
will be filled with the Voices, Performances,
Multis*, and Masters of your synth.
*: Multis are supported for S90 XS/S70 XS and MOTIF-RACK XS only
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