Yamaha Motif ES 7 Fully Expanded MINT new condition! I bought it a short time ago from Sweetwater Music, brand new and had them order it with professionally installed PLG expansion boards and digital in/out expansion card. I've used it on 14 songs, 5 of which were used on my CD project that was completed in Dec 2006. I no longer need this instrument that is in New condition but know that I have used it very little. You get the Motif ES-7, 76 key workstation, PLG-PC Percussion, PLG-VL acoustic, PLG-DR, high quality recorded drums. All manuals, including a DVD that I purchased as well that is a fully instructional DVD from YAMAHA direct. I will also include a smart media card that enables you to back up your music and settings. It also has USB in/out for additional digital storage media backup capacity as well as SPDIF/Optical dig in/out, multiple channels in/out, phones out, etc (see Yamaha site for complete information as they still sell these new). The Final Cost breakdown for me when I purchased:

Motif es7 $2,499.99
Plg1 $ 199.95
Plg2 $ 259.95
Plg3 $ 199.95
I/O exp $ 399.95
DVD inst $ 39.95
Sm Media $ 69.95
Total $3,669.69
Following information is from Yamaha site on PLG boards and the 3 that were professionally installed:

What is the Modular Synthesis Plug-in System?

Powerful Expansion Boards That:

Expand your sound generation capabilities
Increase your available polyphony
Give you more multitimbral parts and effects
Can be controlled from the host keyboard
· Come bundled with PC software for detailed voice editing

PLG150 Professional Series Plug-in Boards

Yamaha's Modular Synthesis Plug-in System is a revolutionary expansion system that adds a COMPLETE SYNTHESIZER or SOUND PROCESSING ENGINE to any Modular-Synthesis-Plug-in- compatible synthesizer. Yamaha's amazing plug-in board lineup, which includes the PLG150 Professional Series not only gives you new sounds, but also new synthesis architecture, new effects processors, extra polyphony and more. It's like placing an additional synthesizer or digital effects processor inside your existing keyboard but at a fraction of the cost!



PLG150-DR

The new PLG150-DR includes a huge number of brand new drum samples with Live Room ambience recorded at one of LA's top studios. Plus, the card has many of the core drum kits of the Motif, like the Mondo Rock kit. Featuring extremely long and multi-position cymbal samples, a wide variety of different snares, kicks and toms, the PLG150-DR's kits are focused on quality but still provide lots of variation.

The PLG150-DR plug-in board has its own reverb, chorus/echo and variation effects to give you even more freedom to produce your music just the way you like.



Additional Features

22MB* of new Live Room drums samples plus Motif core rock and power standard kits
32 Notes of polyphony expansion
80 Preset kits and 8 user kits
· Includes a CD-ROM of MIDI drum patterns and phrase and PLG editing software



PLG150-PC

The new PLG150-PC plug-in board for Yamaha synthesizers features Afro/Cuban and Brazilian percussion sounds from the award winning Latin Groove Factory from Q UP Arts. Combined with the MIDI patterns produced by LA composer and Latin Music expert Geoff Stradling, you have all the tools at your fingertips to get a red hot Latin Groove going.

Complete Afro Cuban kits include Timbales, Tumbas, Congas, Quintos, and Bongos, while the Brazilian kits featuring the distinctive sounds of Brazil including Surdo, Pandeiro, and Caixa.

Percussion tracks can use many notes, so the PLG150-PC has it's own 32 notes of polyphony. Plus, you get separate board Reverbs, Chorus/Echo and EQ/Variation effects to tailor your tracks.



PLG150-VL – Virtual Acoustic Plug-in Board

The Virtual Acoustic plug-in board lets you create incredibly expressive, natural-sounding voices by digitally simulating the physical characteristics of acoustic instruments. Along with its superior ability to emulate real-life wind, brass and string instruments, this plug-in board lets you create imaginary "virtual" musical instruments. Thanks to its fabulous synthesis architecture, extensive realtime performance control of the voices is possible, making it the ideal plug-in board for keyboard soloists. Furthermore, this plug-in board is fully compatible with VL-XG song data, which allows for incredibly expressive and realistic playback of sequenced wind and string instrument parts.


Don't miss this one, I'm selling a bunch of gear to get ready for Christmas. 

For More details just email me at j.ohn10@yahoo.com