I thought it was a Sega Game Gear for a microsecond 😅

You took the words right out of my mouth 🎯 This is like “Wow Frank!”

You probably confused the RA-90 and the RA-50. The RA-50 does have MT-32 sounds. But the RA-90 has just the sounds of sound canvas. We have no reason to cheat in this situation. This track is a multitimbre recorded straight from the module (with some post-processing).

Do you know if the engine and its sounds differ much from the QY series?

As far as I can tell, this synth uses a particular ROM chip with 2 MB of 12-bit, General MIDI compatible instruments. I don't think any of the QY synths use these samples exactly, but this ROM was also used in a few other things, one of which being a few soundcards for PC and MSX that use OPL4 chips. The MSX cards however don't have the DSP chip however, so are completely dry.

@@autumnbrushtail From comparing the specs in their respective manuals and my general knowledge of both series, I suspect the QY22 has the same synthesis engine and sound set as the MU5. They both have General MIDI (no XG), 28 polyphony, 16 parts/channels, 128 normal instruments, 8 drumkits. The drumkit listings look the same too. But I haven't done any listening comparisons myself.

Most of the video was shot on an old Panasonic RX1 camcorder

Yamaha MU5 does not have a built-in sequencer, so it is controlled by external sources (either using a DAW or an hardware sequencer)

If you want nearly the same soundset but with sequencer on board, you'd better look for Yamaha QY20 music sequencer. Good luck!

Thanks guys for the reply. And thanks for the other suggestion. Think there might be one in the local classifieds

Это миди клавиатура Yamaha KX-25

Не забудь ознакомится вот с этой сессией на Yamaha MU5 - kzbin.info/www/bejne/nILOZaiQetqsb7M

Thanks a lot!

Yes

Hi! Not sure if I can fully help you. I used RA-90 with DAW as a sequencer. I simply used basic midi-out plugin to rule all the commands on each midi-channel: instrument, panning, velocity etc. As I remember by now RA-90 can work in two modes: GM and GS. Applying midi signals in each mode is different. In general you should set on your Pro E the same midi-channel you want to sound on RA-90 and play notes. In GM mode you can change panning and effects from RA-90 panel. But if you want more sophisticated style of using midi commands, you should better check manual. For example in GS mode you have access to other 128 sounds (128 GM + 128 GS). These sounds are better and more realistic, but you can choose them only by midi commands, and there is no way to choose them from panel. That's why better to learn manual and to use all the power of midi with this great lo-fi machine :)

@@endlessvoid84 I was able to start the Style of RA 90 from the PRO-E. But the accompaniments don't play to me. How to do? Which Midi functions should I intervene on?

@@carlodeluca3245 Sorry, my English is not too good and I didn't fully understand your question. Could you rephrase it? What do you mean by starting the Style of RA 90 from the PRO-E?

@@carlodeluca3245 you must set the split parts in your PRO E . After this, you search the channel in PRO E t left hand who combine the "automatic arranger" in RA 90.Set the PRO E until Find the number of the "MIDI channerl" or " automatic arranger" as the same of RA 90. I remember when i had one, that we must set the left hand in the master to be the lower who command the acompaniement....The 2 equipments must be in the same MIDI chanel to access the automatic arranger. It works the same to the upper, and

Wondering the same !

@@seikcharly ok did some digging the whole thing was made using only the qy10 however he did use eq but other than that everything was made using this

Yes :-)

@@D1777YB0T Yes, equalization is used here. The tracks themselves are recorded in multitimbral mode