Yamaha PSS 680 - Jam #1

[@LittleRichard1988]

I just ordered this keyboard on EBay. It's everything I love about a Yamaha Porta-Sound. Real FM synth chip, quirky bell sounds, synthesized pan pipes, built in Yamaha drum machine and of course a very complex Digital Synthesizer so it's a full blown synthesizer. Pay no attention to the few whiny haters in the comments.

[@rot_studios]

Have fun! :D

[@chriswick21]

i just got one of these bad boys from goodwill and can totally relate to how much fun you're having hahaha. this thing really encourages you to improvise!

[@rot_studios]

Yep! Have fun :D

[@madosaka]

Wonderful, the keyboard of my chillhood, looking now one to buy in good conditions.

[@rot_studios]

It's a great keyboard, still having fun with it over a year later :)

[@EBMZEQUENZER]

Surprisingly the drums are pretty good :-) Cheers

[@rot_studios]

Yeah PCM samples :P

[@pfontaine23]

Brilliant! I have one of these as well (as well as a PSS 790) and love it too!

[@rot_studios]

Thanks! It's a great piece of hardware, always fun to play :)

[@bestrickie2]

It is a good old vintage music keyboard. I used to gladly own one of these many years ago. It would sound perfect put through an EFX unit with reverb and other EFX. U play very nicely.

[@rot_studios]

Yep I love it! And thanks

[@rfrayo_]

I have one of these! It's a fun instrument to mess around with. A little external FX really make this thing go far.

[@rot_studios]

Indeed! Have you tried an external patch editor too? There's a lot of parameters that can be changed, that are not available on the front panel... ;)

[@rfrayo_]

@@rot_studios I did not know of this! Now I'm curious.

[@industrial_records]

Hello, I have a question. I'm considering buying a PSS-680 today, but I have a problem I can't find an answer to, can I use this MIDI-enabled keyboard in programs like "FL Studio", "Mixcraft" - to play instruments in the program?

[@rot_studios]

Yes,the 680 has full midi support. Make sure you have midi connection on your audio interface as the 680 is too old for usb :)

[@industrial_records]

@@rot_studios thank you very much :) what exactly is the connection you are talking about? i have never used midi before so i don't know anything about it. so what kind of connection is needed to connect it?

[@rayentouati9947]

how to connect him to PC (Fl Studio) using midi to usb ?is it easy?

[@rot_studios]

Yeah, the PSS-680 has MIDI ports etc,so just plug it in :)

[@rayentouati9947]

@@rot_studios hi do have a facebook or disocrd to contact you i bought the midi cable but i have some problems with the connections

[@jheighten7568]

Hey could you please tell me how to move the scales in throughout the keyboard. I need to use the bass side and I am falling short by 2 notes when playing

[@rot_studios]

In the custom sounds section you can set the pitch of the two oscillators, I tune both of those an octave lower if I need lower notes :)

[@jheighten7568]

So awesome thank you

[@danieldl3078]

Hello could you explain to me how you could connect to midi?

[@rot_studios]

To what device and what purpose? If it's a PC you'll need an audio interface with MIDI or a MIDI interface. Other than that it's pretty standard.

[@gpointmaddin]

My ears are bleeding now - thanks!

[@rot_studios]

Glad to hear that, thank you so much :D

[@PravosudijaNetVIDEO]

I bit off my leg ...

[@rot_studios]

Was it your ass? And does it hunger for more?

[@Thunder_Owl]

I recently got exactly this "toy" to myself :)

[@rot_studios]

""""""""toy"""""" ;)

[@santiagoraineri1635]

Can you please explain me how you did to record that because it has been a while sonce I got this keyboard and I have no idea of how to record some chords for then play guitar over them. Thankss!

[@rot_studios]

You'll need to look into getting a (cheap) recording soundcard like a Focusrite Scarlett Solo or an M-Audio M-track so you can record audio at good quality. Then you'd also need software for recording and editing music, this is called a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation). I personally use REAPER, but there's many more (Cubase comes to mind). The keyboard has two "line-out" connections on the back for recording, a 6.3mm jack cable plugs into these as well as into previously mentioned soundcard. Hope this helps :)

[@karl.weaver]

Tone deaf?

[@rot_studios]

10 thumbed, tone deaf, no talent, noise pollution :V

[@rectify2003]

Awful

[@rot_studios]

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