Improvised Retro Jam - Yamaha PSS-560

A quick noodle on my Yamaha PSS-560, a consumer keyboard from the mid-80s, featuring the YM3812 chip, used in the Sound Blaster 1.0 soundcard.
This little synth is quite basic but can produce some pleasant sounds. It's great for synthwave, 80s or electronica music. I've used it in a lot of my ambient and electronic music productions.
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Video:
Panasonic Lumix GH3 (main camera)
Panasonic Lumix G5 (secondary camera)
1080P HDMI YPBPR Game Capture HD Video Recorder (HDMI capture device)
Samsung Galaxy S9+ (mobile camera)
GoPro Hero 4 Black (not much, it’s pretty rubbish)
Zhiyun Smooth 4 (3 axis gimbal)
DJI Spark (drone)
Neewer Bi-color 660 LED Video Lights
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Rode Stereo Videomic Pro (Hot shoe mount mic)
Rode SmartLav+ (Lavalier Mic)
Roland R-05 (sound recorder)
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Main DAW: Ableton Live 10 (Primary DAW)
Logic Pro X (Secondary DAW [Still love you bae] )
Ableton Push 1 (Ableton Controller)
Alesis MidiMix (Mixery controller thingie)
Sennheiser HD650 (Studio headphones)
Sennheiser HD25 light (DJ Headphones)
KRK Rokit RP6 G2 (studio monitors)
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Final Cut Pro X (But don’t do it. Or maybe do. I can’t decide)
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My name is Rob and I go by the working title of The Orphic Creative. I’m a composer, songwriter, music producer, sound engineer and DJ, and occasionally also a human. I love anything to do with music tech and recording; I love making videos; and I love setting myself weird or interesting challenges and experiments with all of the above. Oh, and making some dank ch00ns bro 💀🤟
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[@benchampion3768]

Haha I had this keyboard as a kid. Those sliders were fun. Great to see it in action again👍🏻

[@h2o1969]

I have the 460, and 480. I play on them more than any other keyboard I have. I just love the PSS series. The sound of these 2 just suit me. The 480 has a great rhythm section too. So much you can do with it.

[@minimal_liminal]

YES! I just found one of these sweet babies at a thrift shop. So much vintage goodness.

[@TheOrphicCreative]

Nice one! Enjoy 😎

[@gelatinous6915]

Definitely the best sounding PSS synthesizer- that's a real analog chorus chip on board suprisingly

[@TheOrphicCreative]

Very clean sounding, especially for a 'toy'

[@trumjohannsmancave]

Haha sweet! Sounds like my big brother PSR-36👍🤗🎹🎶 Great stuff

[@user-bb3hm8ur8q]

It was helpful for me to play while playing the rhythm. Other reviewers don't play the built-in rhythm very much.

[@LittleRichard1988]

I have a Yamaha PSS-470 but I also want the model up with PCM drums. So I think it would make sense to get a Yamaha PSS-560 as I could also have 2 keyboards with different button colours, the PSS-470 has coloured buttons and the PSS-560 has mostly grey buttons with a coloured highlight buttons.

[@musicotec7380]

Fantastic improvisation. Beautiful style and voices. A pleasure to hear your creation. Like 👍👍👍 Greetings.

[@TheOrphicCreative]

Many thanks!

[@realmsofficialmusic1398]

Love it!

[@paultalentscout7505]

Just absolutely amazing music! Can't stop listening to this. Great work! :)

[@TheOrphicCreative]

Thanks a lot!

[@hermeslord]

They had good sounds for the time, paired with an effects box they could sound otherworldly.

[@osirismaximus2787]

Really nice work!

[@TheOrphicCreative]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@Mind-your-own-beeswax]

I’ve got the 680 running through 2 phaser pedals and it transforms the sounds. It’s a very useable little keyboard

[@TheOrphicCreative]

Yes, completely agree, with some added effects it can sound amazing. The sounds from the OPL2 chip are very clean and clear

[@cleverhardy5230]

Sounds like in-game music, and not because the keyboard has a Soundblaster chip. It sounds like a mixture of Pollyanna (Earthbound) and Together Forever.

[@bestrickie2]

Excellent performance and excellent old vintage keyboard. Putting it through an EFX unit will totally enhance it with reverb, delay, chorus and other. Well done. Please check me out here on KZbin. Thanks.

[@TheOrphicCreative]

Thank you! I'll check you out

[@Domzdream]

hehe, one man band. You just need a go go dancer now, with underlighting.

[@TheOrphicCreative]

Haha, let's not get carried away here :-D