I enjoyed this series of videos. I am a video game guy and that was one of my main reasons for getting a CX5M. However, as it is a synth, I’ve been using it to learn keyboard/piano. It was neat to see these things from the perspective of someone who has an idea of what they’re doing.
@@thebrackett There's so many great MSX games, but practically none were released in the U.S. My favorite is Maze of Galious which is a big adventure, like Metroid. Anything made by Konami is good: Knightmare, Gradius, Parodious, Metal Gear, Contra, Snatcher. Games are silly expensive though, so I bought a flash cart/floppy emulator. Ie: www.8bits4ever.net/product-page/carnivore2
Spot on with the mouse, keyboard shortcuts are the king, the only the limit is one's memory (or a nice printed chart). And you're absolutely about not being able to see the waveforms and other visual cues, instead we're forced to use all the bandwidth we have on the music itself, the visualization happens in our brains. I messed with DAWs for a couple of years before I put my hands on a YAMAHA SY-77 and was fascinated with how the different process made me a lot more productive, more able to simply make more music rather than set up and tweak things in the DAW. The amount of choice is paralyzing in a DAW whereas on a physicals dedicated device it's likely easy to map the whole tool in one's head (not all HW are good though, some are badly designed) . Also when I got the SY-77 I got a mixer and a Yamaha EX-5 and connected them together. The the ability to simply adjust volume with physical knobs is absolutely so powerful in the creative phase. Ultimately a DAW has its place when things are polished and mastered. I enjoy your channel a lot. Keep up the good work. Peace
Here, here! Thanks so much for taking the time to share your thoughts (and kind words!). DAW definitely is great for last mile polishing, pretty hard to beat the utility of mixing and mastering on a computer (easily switch projects, draw automation, etc.) but working in modern DAW from the start leads to me focusing on the wrong things early on. SY77 is a pretty glorious machine, I still have my MOXF which Is kind of the last of the breed (so far) I can pretty much write songs without looking at the little LED screen, and that’s one of my metrics for good hardware. Can I do the making “loop” without taking my brain away from the music. So much easier to do when you can build up muscle memory so that working transport controls kind of just happens between takes without you even noticing. More to come soon! Thanks for tuning in!
Have you ever looked at an Atari ST ? For years they were the mainstay of professional MIDI sequencing, with both Steinberg and eMagic (who got bought by Apple) releasing some of their first software for the ST.
CX5M MSX computers were not famous computers even in japanese market. In fact these computers were a Yamaha bet to trying enter in USA computers market. Unfortunately didn't work at that time and the full power of CX5M computers were not used completely. MIDI was in its very early days, so the idea of a digitally programmable synthesizer of CX5M was very embrionary...that is the price of pioneering spirit os this machine. C1 is a 1988 machine and CX5M is a 1984 machine....MIDI protocol in 1984 was very very embrionary and 1988 was a little bit more mature because FM based synthesizers were the "soundof 80's" and helped to improve a lot MIDI uses on studios and musicians.
You realise that with the MSX standard, theoretically* the SFG05 would work with (using an adaptor Yamaha sold which is basically two connectors back to back) any MSX computer of which literally hundreds were released in Japan. * I hope so because I have an SFG01 which one day I intend to use with the Toshiba HX10 MSX computer I have owned since new (when it was a cheap alternative to a Commodore 64).
