Just testing my Yamaha PSS 680. So much fun with only 2 FM Operators :) Oh and sorry for the bad picture and soundquality. I'll do it better next time. I promise ;)
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@mrexcellent113 жыл бұрын
Wow! I still have mine when I first bought it in November 1989. I have used it for several cassette-based albums I have created from 1989 to 1993. This thing produced a lot of great sounds. Although I don't use it since I have upgraded to professional keyboards and studios since then, but I keep it for sentimental purposes.
@LittleRichard19886 ай бұрын
January 2009 was long before I even had a KZbin channel, back then I used to watch videos of this keyboard ( although at the time it was hard to find videos of a Yamaha PSS-680 which hadn't been modified ). But in 2021 I finally bought myself a Yamaha PSS-680.
@KRAFTWERK2K66 ай бұрын
Congrats :D i hope you didn't have to pay too much for yours. Back in 2009 these were still rather affordable. I think i paid about 80 bucks for mine. I still have it and would never really wanna part from it because there simply is not much FM Synth hardware out there that has that Soundblaster OPL2 or MegaDrive soundchip sound and even with full MIDI support. I think there's even much better software Editors for this thing now than the one i used back then to break out of the editing limitations of the actual Keyboard. Because even though this FM Synthesis is pretty simple, it's still very capable of great sounds. And if you send it through an effect pedal, that's where it really gets interesting.
@KRAFTWERK2K615 жыл бұрын
oh and i mean "sounds" not "sound". Silly typos..
@jjovereats12 жыл бұрын
@Brunettebabii123 If you have a yellow parallel-like 15-pin port, get a breakout cable and a Midi crossover cable.
@KRAFTWERK2K615 жыл бұрын
well you better check out the Soundeditor for the PSS 680 first before "violating" the circuits ;) I'm planing to upload a video containing a audiotrack featuring sound created with the PSS edit software. You can record your tracks to a sequencer and shape it with some filters or effects.
@KRAFTWERK2K615 жыл бұрын
thank youuuuu ;)
@KRAFTWERK2K611 жыл бұрын
I dunno for sure. The instruction manual isn't really saying anything about the quality of the DA converter but the drumkit samples for the trigger pads are 12 bit samples. And the overall soundquality is (according to my ears) definitely not 8 bit, regarding aliasing noise. So, yeah. it might be 12 or even 14 bit.
@nidzio9315 жыл бұрын
My first synthesizer :) Nice
@KRAFTWERK2K613 жыл бұрын
@Brunettebabii123 You should get a USB MIDI cable (one side 2x DIN connectors and the other end has an USB plug). This is what you need :)
@MsMadLemon8 жыл бұрын
I've seen these Yamaha PSS series around a couple of times, they seem to be nice keyboards, I know nothing about them but i'm curious haha.
@KRAFTWERK2K68 жыл бұрын
Yeah they are really fun to fool around with :D Some of them have soundchips that sound like a keyboard version of a NES or Game Boy, others sound like a Adlib soundcard or Mega Drive. Just like this PSS keyboard here. Which is no mirracle because they all share the same soundchip. So you really get playable OPL2 synthesis on a keyboard like the PSS680 or the Philips PMC 100. A neat little taperecorder/keyboard combination. However it has only a foil keyboard.
@albertsciarronsky22517 жыл бұрын
Hi! i have got a question for you, is it possible to plug the keyboard with a midi usb cable to the mac? i tried it but it doesn't work, but maybe i did something wrong
@KRAFTWERK2K67 жыл бұрын
Hi. Oh this should work, if your system has a driver for this USB MIDI cable. I was using one as well. You also have to set the MIDI channel of the keyboard right so the communication between the Keyboard and the Mac works. I think it was one of the first 3 or 4 channels, from 00 till 02. I'm not sure anymore. It's been a while since I used mine for that.