Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Yamaha Motif is a series of music workstations, first released by Yamaha Corporation in August 2001. Other workstations in the same class are the Korg M3, Roland Fantom-G and Alesis Fusion.Motif Rack is a sound module without any keyboard, designed to be controlled by external instruments. Balanced hammer effect action is derived from Yamaha''s Clavinova digital pianos. In January 2006, Yamaha launched two ''lite'' versions of the Motif ES - the 61 key Mo6 and 88 key Mo8. Though only containing half the polyphony and fewer preset sound programs, these models contain all the Motif ES sample sets, along with arpeggios and a song and pattern sequencer. Lacking are the professional Motif ES features such as mLAN connectivity, PLG integration, sampling and multiple foot controllers.