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You know those slightly dramatic Scandinavian car adverts where almost nothing happens, yet somehow everything feels important?
I sat down with the Yamaha MODX M the other day, landed on a preset, and within about thirty seconds I thought, “This sounds like a Volvo advert.”
So I leaned into it.
I even made a tongue-in-cheek AI video of a fictional arty car advert and played the music over the top just to see if the mood held up. It did. Very well.
If you haven’t seen it yet, you can watch the full performance here:
But what interested me wasn’t really the car advert idea. That was just the doorway.
What fascinated me was what happened next.
Once I had that initial noir atmosphere, I started flicking through presets out of curiosity.
Not in a technical way. Not analysing. Just exploring.
And the personality of the instrument changed completely.
The moody Scandinavian tension became something cinematic and emotional, like a movie trailer building towards a big reveal. Then suddenly it shifted again into something that felt almost like an 80s TV theme. Upbeat. Bold. Confident.
Each time, it wasn’t just a different sound. It was a different emotional direction.
That’s when the versatility of the MODX M really hit home.
What makes the MODX M cool to me is not the spec sheet.
It’s the relationship.
It acts like an ally to your musicality.
I play something. I press a Scene button. I twist the Super Knob. Instantly the landscape shifts. Not in a chaotic way, but in a way that feels immediate and intuitive.
It is almost like opening alternate versions of your own musical idea.
You create. It responds.
You nudge it. It offers a pathway.
That symbiotic feeling is where the inspiration lives.
There is a slight sense of surprise each time you move the Super Knob, and that surprise is fun. It keeps you engaged. It keeps you curious about what might happen next.
For those who love their Genos or PSR-SX, this is not about abandoning arranger playing.
It is more like discovering another lane on the same motorway.
Arrangers are brilliant at structure. At polish. At performance-ready backing.
MODX M feels more open-ended. More exploratory. It encourages you to shape transitions, morph sounds, and follow the mood rather than the format.
That difference can be refreshing.
And it does not have to be intimidating.
In the video, nothing was overcomplicated. It was simply about following where the sound wanted to go.
By the end of that session, what stayed with me was not the faux Volvo advert or the 80s TV theme.
It was the feeling that the instrument had met me halfway creatively.
It did not demand that I think like a programmer.
It did not overwhelm me with menus.
It responded quickly, musically, and in ways that genuinely inspired new ideas.
That, to me, is cool.
If you are even slightly curious about what stepping into that lane might feel like, the Yamaha MODX M8 and M7 are both available to explore.
And if moving across feels like a big jump, part-exchange options are wide open. Genos, PSR-SX, older models, other brands. If it plays music, we are happy to look at it.
Sometimes a small sideways step is all it takes to open up a new creative direction.
You can watch the full video above and see where the MODX M took me.
You might find it takes you somewhere unexpected too.
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