Didn’t know much about this but listen to some videos of the presenting sounds was cool. But this bloody hell hearing the first 3 presets just blew me away. It is truly an incredible synthesizer. Creating the most atmospheric, powerful and also scary sounds.
The sound around 5:40 was used by Tangerine Dream at the start of Exit. As far as I understand if performed live they played a studio recording of it or possibly as a sample. Perhaps the clav was too bulky, finicky or expensive to use live?
the beat it riff is cool and all, but there's some real impressive synth wizardry on display here. the electric guitar is especially impressive for 1981.
I would choose the Yamaha TX-816 over a Yamaha Tyros 5, Genos, Genos 2 or any cheesy arranger keyboard. Pair this up with a lofi PCM like a Roland TR-505 or TR-707 and you have the untimate lofi setup! All these instrument patches still sound realistic even today, on this recording they used the TX-816 with a Yamaha RX-11 drum machine, this kind of music is still just as cool now as it was back then.
The cool thing about this machine is you could literally create a whole video game or sci-fi film soundtrack with no need for additional instruments, what a beast.
5.42. What a great time it was! People thought, that if you can't touch smth, then there is no need for copyright protection. Then guys like Steve Jobs (let him rest in peace) and Bill Gates came into this area and explained, that it was wrong to think like this.
It’s unfair that they believe he has dissuaded the next generation of musicians from picking up “real instruments”. The computer age was going to happen no matter what and instruments were going to become computerized. I think it’s up to the preference of the musicians; what tech and instruments they are going to use. Personally I use a guitar, real synthesizers, bass guitar, bass synth, real racks and effects; but I also use everything I can to support my sound with what the computer provides in engineering and actual music production. Also we as musicians would never be able to have the personal studios at our disposal nowadays without computers and daws. As a result I probably would’ve never even became a musician in the first place. Computers quite literally perform the job of almost an entire studios layout.
17:57 must the the inspiration for 'The way you make mee feel'. Especially if you listen to the rehearsal in This is It where MJ tries to explain how it's suppose to sound...
There's no need for this setup anymore other than the build quality and energy that goes into the hardware. I have an Arturia cmi and operate in a daw which I can take on stage with an 88 key controller and laptop. The idea was brilliant but the execution was wrong. Like many great minds, their vision shaped the future but they didn't consider the economies of scale.
Useless! Not even 1 barking dog, bubbles, or funny frog sound! 200k should at least get me a good, old fashioned, simulated wet fart!!! (or maybe a queef instead?) LOL!
