Ah, there it is. It finally stepped out of the shadows. I have to say, I felt it right from the start. The combination with your high voice was great. By the way, the TYU-20 came out in 1985, but it wasn't the first Yamaha keyboard with that Do Re Mi voice. It was already used on the HS-400 in 1982.
Not saying which spot, but you are on my top ten list, of overall best YT music people. I can tell you, it's because of your approach to electronic music, the tools you create for the purpose, and your results.
Give it a black slick body with buttons, call it "granular micro vector synth", add some midi connectivity, send it to a bunch a synthfluencers along with some over the top praising guidelines... boom
Every time you pull out something like this & I hear the sounds, I'm always like, "I have no idea what the hell I'd even use this for, but I know Simon is going to get some magic out of it somehow" and you've never proven me wrong.
Yamaha needs to hire you to have your voice included in the next Teenage Engineering knock-off groovebox they release. Then in 40 years someone will make a video wondering who the strange man singing the names of the tones is
Wow, you come across the craziest stuff! I love old Yamaha gear, I have never even heard of anything like this. My personal fave is my PSS-480, looks like a toy but actually has a really powerful synth engine inside.
I got one that looks just like the grey one. Mine doesn't have a pitch wheel. But it's kinda cool. It's quad phonic I guess it the term? 4 notes at once but no more. But that one is cool. I'm sure it was the inspiration for the Miku pedal. Which is of course the workhorse pedal of the modern guitarist. It's just so functional.
Oh, the TYU-30 is the one i had when i was a kid! I'd never been able to recall what it was before now. Absolutely a toy, but i loved that thing. (I won it in a drawing at a craft and gift show my mom was selling pine cone Christmas decorations at; an exhibitor right up near the entrance had an hourly must-be-present-to-win drawing for various things, and when the drawing for this guy came around, the first person drawn wasn't there, so i won it on the second try. I would have been maybe 10 years old?)
It feels like the do re mi sound would be a lot more effective if it was sampled and then each note was looped/sustained somehow so it could be played for longer. Time stretching maybe?
Ooh. Jag fick med en Music Maker-modell i en låda full med ljudleksaker nyligen som hade rösttoner med samma koncept, fast bara en oktav i nuläget. Ändå jäkligt inspirerande. Den hade någon svensk låt bland "songs" också. Ovanligt att se. Fick även med en Casio Tonebank PT-88. Kul nostalgi i ljuden från brorsans gamla tonebank. Bah för kuriosa.
As stated at the beginning, this was the "record it before surgery" day. Which means Magpie has TWO videos to make, because of the other cliffhanger... what's that weird thing the 40 does?! You can't leave that hanging for TOO long.
I feel like this was maybe intended for solfege practice for kids? Like there are some preset kids songs and you can turn on the do-re-mi mode and sing along with your kid as a form of play.