35 years later, you made your first keyboard a tour de force worthy of one of your gigs. It’s limitations as an intermediate keyboard I was excited to give you 35 years ago are blown away in your new song leveraging your musical and sound engineering expertise and creativity beyond anything, any instrument I have seen you reinvent, resurrect and improve. Absolutely outstanding filling me with joy and pride in you my son Jeremy.
I can’t decide what I’m impressed most by here, lots to choose from! super thoughtful presentation of the history and capabilities of this fantastic relic; a truly pro video editing job; songwriting; badass performance per usual. 👏👏👏👏👏 🎹 👏👏👏👏👏
My first fancy keyboard! Since I had never had anything that could be programmed I thought it was fantastic! Only had it for about a year befoer I lost it in an accident. RIP to my B200 but that did force me to gear up to brand spanking new M1 and SY85! Cool sounds and great playing!
Thank you for the quality video about this synth! Anyone searching for 80s sounding synth all-ine-one workstation should skip the toys from the late 1980s since they are mostly mono and not velocity sesitive. Yamaha PSS-790 is not bad. Many Korg and Roland synths from that era don't have a sequencer. Roland JW-50 is one affordable option that does. Overall, Yamaha B200 and YS200 are really the best options under $300 for an 80s all-in-one solution!
Lovely overview and demo - I had a TQ5 back in the day and really missed it, but the price for them is silly money now. Just bagged a B200 for £30, so chuffed... I remeber the "enter 4 nos" lol
Thank you very much! Yes it seems both the TQ5 and B200 are going for a few hundred USD over here in the states, wow. Congrats on your B200, that's a great deal. If you end up downloading my sound bank and give it a go, I'd love to hear a user review, lol. In any case, good luck with the B200!
I moved to Japan at the end of the 80s so I've heard of it but as the music of Tetsuya Komuro who promoted it was cheesy, I was turned off until l got a YS200
Interesting, yeah I had never heard of the YS200 when I was a kid, they probably didn't sell very many in the states. But I also had never heard of Tetsuya Komuro either :D
Ah yes, I can hear that, now that you point it out! (The 'guitar' sound could have been on Kamakiriad or Nightfly, haha.) Thanks for the keen observation and for the sub!
Maybe it's time to break it out again and fire it up! (Although you might have to replace the internal memory battery at this point. :) ) If you do, feel free to download my sound bank and let me know what you think!
@@JeremyParkerMusic Thanks for your respons. Have no clue where this internal battery is located, because I have no manual. Maybe you can give me a hint.😆
@@wimschoenmakers5463 yes sure, there's a step by step set of instructions here on the YS200, which is basically the same keyboard: snackeyes.blogspot.com/2017/06/replacing-yamaha-ys200-synthesizer.html
Your piece sounds very Herbie Hancockish. "Herbie on FM" I like it. A Moog without effects and feedback also sounds pretty barebones and basic. In the end it's the musician who makes an instrument sing. Got myself a YS200 recently. I have to fix the battery and one key, before I start my own adventure with FM.
Thanks very much, I'm a huge Herbie fan! I just picked up a Moog Minitaur, and I know what you mean, analog can sound pretty 'simple' too. Very true, as with almost any artform. That's great, have fun with it, and please try my sounds if you're willing! (I'm not sure if anyone has yet.)
Editing sounds is more fun with a software editor. Ctrlr got panel for the TX81z what should work fine for this synth. I make sounds with the editor for my DS55.
Yes I did find the Ctrlr TX81z panel, mentioned it at the end of the video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7pOdmqQ8cYQ.html It works overall, just some parameters aren't available/compatible.
It's a crying shame that no one ever put the YM2414 on a computer motherboard, console, sound card or arcade hardware, back in the Eighties. The closest thing we got was its older brother, four chennelYM2412 on a few obscure Taito, Capcom, and Williams arccade games before they switched to other Yamaha chips (or in the case of Williams, to Midway sound boards0.
Yes, good point, that would have been interesting to hear this quality of sounds in game systems. I think I remember reading about the YM2412, thanks for the info there. The closest I got was connecting up my Amiga to the B200 for running Deluxe Music, and that was pretty exciting at the time...
Thank you very much, and thanks for the subscription! Yes, press the Job button and then select 'Multi', pretty easy to do (although you have to set it up manually and can't just have it saved as a 'patch')
Hi do you know of your soundbank will work with the b500 model? I bought one of those from Japan and I reckon someone must have changed the battery as no sounds on it. Btw I have the B200 too. This was my first ever synth many years ago. My first keyboard though was a casiotone ct670. My mum and dad bought me that when I was about 13 or 14, this was the beginning of a lifetime obsession. My first actual synthesizer was the B200. My original one got damaged but I managed to pick a other one off eBay a few years ago. Oildrum is my fav sound on it and it was so good to hear iceage and some of the other sounds again. I feel even nowadays it's very beneficial for unique percussive sounds as you have a lot of options to tweak these sounds.
I don't think it will, as it looks like the B500 uses a different sound chip, same as TG33, SY22, SY35. So it's possible you could look for sound banks for those models. Also, the unit probably would have at least had some factory sounds in ROM, like the B200, so maybe there is a factory reset button combo when powering it up that will let you restore the memory. This is what I found for the B200, which maybe would work for the B500? Press JOB, EXIT, & STORE while powering up. When you see "Entry" press the "+" button. Then press 2 and 4. When you see "factory set" press + Yes, same here, B200 was my first actual synthesizer, so I'm glad to have it up and running again. Yes I know those sounds pretty well! And I even bought a sound card of Ebay, which I had always wanted as a kid. My new sounds are actually prettty useful, believe it or not, and I have used it in some of my songs on RU-vid here.
@JeremyParkerMusic thanks I will try what you suggested. I will let you know if it works be great if it did won't be home until tomorrow morning will find out tomorrow. Fingers crossed all ten of them 😄 ;) But yes some great memories with these sounds from B200. I know I am probably too sentimental too :)
