FM Essential - US Reviews – Page 2
3/5 rating based on 24 reviews. Read all reviews for FM Essential - US for iPhone.
FM Essential - US is free iOS app published by Yamaha Corporation of America
Great sounding synth but it's a scam
wradcliffe
The synth sounds great but only provides a handfull of sounds with the rest "locked". Can I get those with an In App purchase perhaps? Noooo - I need to by an expensive piece of hardware. All this tactic does is make me angry at Yamaha for teasing me with this great sounding synth engine but not allowing access to all the sounds.
Crooked Yamaha
JibrilAb
Why is Yamaha intent on promoting this as freeware? All this app is, is a sleazy ad for the MX synthesizers. In other words, "you can use this app if you poop out $500 for one our MX synthesizers. Yamaha used to be a respectable company, but man, have they slipped in recent years.
Thank you, Yamaha
JMWins
FM GO Promo Want the the full version? Here's your chance. First, Download the free version of FM Essential to your iOS device, then visit an authorized Yamaha dealer and connect your iOS device to a Yamaha MX synthesizer to unlock the full version. There is no purchase required to download FM Essential. Once the full version is downloaded and unlocked, it stays fully enabled on your device – even when the MX is no longer connected! That's right, you can walk out of the store with the full version loaded on your iOS device. But you might want to stay and have some fun playing with the MX and FM Essential! Update: Take your Apple Camera kit adapter and ask the store to lend you a USB to connect and you will be set! Then have a blast playing the instrument using the phone/keyboard combo on the fly. The sales guy didn't know about the app or the offer, but we both were excited and surprised with the possibilities offered using the app/keyboard combo. I do not work for Yamaha. But, they should have someone go to stores...
Uh, No
SunTunes
First off, the app in its unlocked state is pretty interesting in its own right, particularly if you've owned a DX7 or similar synth. The supplied patches are 'meh', but will whet your appetite. The kink comes when you try what's described in the above review. The keyboard specialist at the retailer I visited knew all about the app, but pitched it as something that was slaved to a particular keyboard. Yours. You buy an MX## and you can use the supplied cable to interface with your iOS device and unlock the 250+ additional voices. When I asked him if he could unlock it with a display synth he said no, it wouldn't work apart from that keyboard. Not to say the app's not cool, just that it's a fail as described above. Likewise not to say I wouldn't get an MX88 later and use this - I own and enjoy lots of YamaStuff.
Whyy
cuezaireekaa
Please allow unlock without going miles to another store. They might not let me do the unlock anyway so please allow unlock without jumping thru hoops??? Thank you Yamaha
Fm Essential Unlock
drgriff33
New iPad Pro, latest update, spent over an hour @ Guitar Center (10 mi. drive), with several different MX models, trying to unlock FM Essential. Incompatible USB Device on all MX displays. A total waste of my and the helpful staffs time.
Listed as free but...
Michaelmenary
...very limited and not usable. It can only be used with full functionality when connected to a Yamaha keyboard. I guess Yamaha conveniently forgot to mention that...
I have an MX49 and it doesn’t unlock on iPhone X!!
Jean J. Labrosse
I agree with the folks that are annoyed that you require an MX to unlock this app. I have an MX49BK and I can’t get it to unlock the app on iPhoneX! It unlocks on my iPad Pro 9.7” but after a while it tells me that the iPad hardware is not compatible when connected to the MX. So I can use the iPad standalone with all the features but it’s nice to be able to select voices and features directly from the iPad and play them on the MX. Either charge something to unlock the full version or just unlock it regardless of whether you own an MX or not. I also own a Montage 7 (FANTASTIC! by the way) and got the MX to take with me when I travel.
An ad disguised as an app
Bloobeary
Seems like it could have been a decent piece of kit, but it requires you to buy a $800 keyboard to get it out of demo mode. Even free, it’s a bit of a ripoff, because ha ha, they got credit for a download out of you. Way to be a bunch of cheap, creepy tightwads, guys.