From far it sounds like a great ol' acoustic lounge piano FM IS FANTASTIC
@Shred_The_Weapon2 ай бұрын
I could see being a musician in the mid-to-upper 80s purchasing this controller, an Oberheim Matrix 6r, a Sequential Prophet 2002 and 2 Roland modules, an MKS-20 piano module and a D-550. Slap a DX7 Mk II in the upper tier, and that would be it.
@jacobthebatchbandit30923 ай бұрын
Saw one on FB market place last week for $150, catch was it didn’t work … but damn that would be cool to own
@devingademan3 ай бұрын
Great playing and a great synth with its own unique character!
@gussytube193 ай бұрын
Excellent tutorial!!! Very useful especially for today´s EWI1000 & EWV2000 entusiastics like me!!!!!!! Whatching it today, August, 2024. Thanks for sharing.
@allthingsknew6 ай бұрын
Incredible. 😯
@allthingsknew6 ай бұрын
Lovely. Fab to have such beautiful childhood holidays!
@allthingsknew6 ай бұрын
Lovely rendition! Takes me back ....❤ Still have my vinyl copy of W & W. x
@CentralScruteniser6 ай бұрын
Jane - from your photo, you look like a Jane West I knew w a y back in the 70s - Did your parents live at "The Rectory?" Whitstone, near Exeter, Devon (UK)? Back then, you lived in Gloucester Road, above a Barclays Bank in London and you were PA to a group of local Directors??? You were a Freddie Mercury/Queen Fan too?
@allthingsknew6 ай бұрын
@@CentralScruteniser Yes, yes, yes, all yesses! 🤣
@RickHardcore6 ай бұрын
Very well played my friend!🎸
@CentralScruteniser6 ай бұрын
Thank you Kindly !😊
@ymotechnopopfan6 ай бұрын
Synth Britannia.
@CentralScruteniser6 ай бұрын
Correct!
@discatte9 ай бұрын
Great upload. The visuals are so trippy. I love wireframe futureman.
@alanredversangel Жыл бұрын
Crazy that a Raspberry Pi can run 8 DX7s without breaking a sweat. I mean, if multi outputs were important to you you could still use 4 or 8 smaller raspberry pis and not break the bank.
@burns46824 Жыл бұрын
suxxxxxxxx
@rachitbansal7485 Жыл бұрын
I have no idea whatsoever why this was in my recommendations but now I’m curious where this is from
@bergerle Жыл бұрын
Haha, same!
@CentralScruteniser6 ай бұрын
It's from "My Family" a British Sitcom - S2E7
@CentralScruteniser6 ай бұрын
It's from "My Family" a British Sitcom - S2E7
@simonking5863 Жыл бұрын
Very impressive Chris 🤘
@sajp8859 Жыл бұрын
Just sold mine for $600. 😃
@deetgeluid11 ай бұрын
Why not to me!😢
@JoelEverettComposer Жыл бұрын
This is awesome! Thanks for sharing!
@DutchBigEd Жыл бұрын
Now there is the MiniDexed DX7 kzbin.info/www/bejne/j2nXqYaXj5ZmaMU
@aural_escape Жыл бұрын
Good logic 😁
@xp50player Жыл бұрын
10:17 sounds like Go West “Call Me”.
@Sitemetespierdes Жыл бұрын
Bla bla bla.. sound?
@ryanbates362 Жыл бұрын
It's a MIDI controller keyboard... it doesn't make sounds.
@hypebeastdad Жыл бұрын
I need that akai chair though
@neilmacmusic Жыл бұрын
"cormposite sones compeeled sones nd splut sones"
@legionnairegonk4425 Жыл бұрын
When one DX7 that is something that mostly nobody knows how or bothers to learn how to program, then clearly the answer to help everyone out is to put 8 of them together in a box! 😂 Only Yamaha would do this😃. But aren't we all glad they did... Qudos to them.
@alinbate4580 Жыл бұрын
Where i can find that strings sound? :D
@CentralScruteniser Жыл бұрын
The DX7 - remember the 816 is just 8 x DX7s . . . .
@JackNance22 Жыл бұрын
This is the kind of unusual content that keeps me watching KZbin until the wee hours of the morning.
@5argetech56 Жыл бұрын
Yamaha TX-816 = 8 DX-7's in one box!
@keyboardkingpin Жыл бұрын
Dope unit!
@Shred_The_Weapon Жыл бұрын
I have long harbored a weird fantasy. I’ve imagined pairing the 816 with an SY-22 or -35, calling up a tone with 32-note polyphony and 4-part multitimbral functionality and being able to switch between the 4 tones by using the vector controller. I’ve been informed something like that isn’t doable, but it still makes for a fun fantasy.
@rickmay1188 Жыл бұрын
It should be doable via crossfade mixing, using a touchpad controller, or a Korg kaosilator. Basically all the vector controller is doing is raising and lowering the overall level of each patch, which should be assignable to any good joystick. It may also control things like envelope, mod, etc, but if you get something that can crap out midi control, you can assign it to do the thing. I recently fell into the rabbit hole that is iPad music creation, and found several midi mapping programs that could do it. MIDI Designer Pro comes to mind. It lets you add virtual sliders, knobbers, Touch controls, x/y axis pads, buttons, etc. Just drag and drop, then tell it which CC you want it to control, on what channel, or give it a line of sysex, and you're golden. I got it specifically so I could use my iPad as a programmer for an M-audio Venom.
@Shred_The_Weapon Жыл бұрын
Better be careful, @@rickmay1188. You’ll convince me to get into that game too.
@cdwhiley Жыл бұрын
Is part 2 of this video available?
@CentralScruteniser Жыл бұрын
Part 2 is here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rqSrpoxpmLZ7g9E - sadly it's more of a demo than an in-depth description of the IN/OUT/MIDI Conectivity . . . . .
@NeilVanceNeilVance2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for uploading! this was perhapes 1985, I have heard a demo of the patches here on an old tape from a magazine called 'Electronic soundmaker and computer music'. lol my 816 is gatherin dust. Wish I had time to fire it up.
@superphatal2 жыл бұрын
Excellent
@CentralScruteniser Жыл бұрын
Thanks . . .
@NelsonClick2 жыл бұрын
I was at a studio in the early 80s and at the top of a keyboard rig they had a QX1. Spotlighted. It was like a holy object. Like a Bible handwritten by God laying in an arc of the covenant. I didn't dare touch it. I looked at it up, down, underneath, side to side, every angle. That was the first, last and only time I ever saw one in person. I would love to tell you I'm exaggerating with this story but I am not.
@rozsaunders2 жыл бұрын
Enjoyed that! Sounds are good!
@CentralScruteniser Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
@jon_c2 жыл бұрын
These are really cool. I sadly never got to see the 80s, but I watched this movie Runaway '84 and read about how they put together the soundtrack. That led to a QX1, TX-816, DX5, and 2 REV-1s. The QX1 had a dead floppy drive that required lithium grease and a new belt. The DX5 had broken felt, dirty contacts, and a bad display. The REV-1s had dead LCD backlights. As cool and minimalist as the QX1 is, I'm very glad it evolved into the QY-700....I use that for my everything. I love these uploads. The newest Yamaha I have is the FS1R lol.
@chloedevereaux18012 жыл бұрын
nope, sounds like an out of tune upright...
@pressureworks2 жыл бұрын
The Goon Show is regularly aired on BBC Radio 4 Extra.
@manuelgonzales64832 жыл бұрын
Nice. I needed a basic overview. 😸
@neonvoid2 жыл бұрын
This is as good as FM gets.
@glenesis2 жыл бұрын
Miracles of Microtechnology :)
@CKT11382 жыл бұрын
I recently got a free KX88, and it's stupidest keyboard ever made. I love it but Yamaha was snorting epic coke in 1984 to make an 88 key, 63lb, aftertouch+velocity keyboard that's over five feet long, and is literally just a MIDI controller, and THEN only gave it one MIDI in and one MIDI out, and no thru lol
@oholm092 жыл бұрын
Snorting coke lol
@AndrewTSq Жыл бұрын
On many midi devices from the early days the thru added lots of latency for me. Better using a separate thru box then :)
@Ciopekwah2 жыл бұрын
5:22 WTF WOW i had no idea it was actually possible to make a good sounding piano with only FM synthesis o-O i mean yeah with 8 layers of DX7 but still impressive as fuck ofc it's still synthetic and uncanny but in the coolest way possible
@CentralScruteniser2 жыл бұрын
For Purists, I would say that Physical Modelling is really the way to go - but the fact is that the DXes were ground breaking at the time - no one had heard sounds like them before, and given all those OPs AND multiply by 8 - then there is STILL stuff in them that has never been heard. The DX just keeps on giving - provided you have the skill and patience 😊
@pennywiser96072 жыл бұрын
Module 7 already sounds like an amazing piano
@CentralScruteniser2 жыл бұрын
I think synthesising a Steinway would be a formidable task, despite the 48 ops . . . . So much easier to Sample - although, if truth be told, Physical Modelling is really the way to go these days . . . .I DID actually meet John Chowning about 15 years ago - amazing guy . . .
@pennywiser96072 жыл бұрын
@@CentralScruteniser Wasn’t he responsible for making FM famous?
@CentralScruteniser2 жыл бұрын
@@pennywiser9607 Yes, he was the inventor of FM Synthesis. There is a book called "FM Theory and Applications, by Musicians for Musicians, written by him and David Bristow, published by Yamaha - ISBN 4-636-17482--8 COOO73 It is largely centred around the DX7
@Eldanoth2 жыл бұрын
Awesome!😻
@drewshka2 жыл бұрын
Oh my god, the intro. It’s like an Unsolved Mysteries/Forensic Files crossover with a Saturday morning cartoon.
@jeremyryannoel2 жыл бұрын
This is one of a few videos that convinced me to acquire an EWI 4000s. It ended up being a Christmas present, especially after realizing the USB model was very limited for my needs. I've traveled with it performing in bands, and recordings as well. I go back to this video occasionally.