Welcome to motif.factory

Introduction

motif.factory is a cross platform Librarian for the Yamaha Motif ES series of synthesizers, that allows you to organise your Motif data from the comfort of your computer.

motif.factory has been written by me, Derek Cook, and is available exclusively as a free download from www.xfactory-librarians.co.uk. The free version is fully functional apart from the save and export features (including MIDI export) and Librarian support are disabled. This allows you to evaluate the features of motif.factory to see if you like it before buying it. If you wish to use motif.factory and enable the save and export functions you will need to register motif.factory and pay a shareware registration fee.

motif.factory was written as there appears to be no comprehensive librarian/editor for the Motif series of synthesizers that had the features that I was looking for, such as the ability to move a voice and have the multis and performances updated to take the voice move into account.

I am greatly interested in user feedback for shaping future versions of motif.factory. Comments and bug reports on the current features of motif.factory and requests for future features can be sent to support@xfactory-librarians.co.uk .

motif.factory is programmed in Java, however, you as a user do not need to worry about that as the Java components required by motif.factory are embedded in the application.

The application has been developed and tested for Java 17 on Mac OS X, and it is also tested on Windows 10 and Linux Mint

The screen shots you see in this manual have been taken with motif.factory running upon OS X. The look and feel of the application will vary depending upon your target JRE and computer platform, so don't worry if motif.factory looks slightly different upon your system.