Yamaha Instruments HQ - Museum Tour - Innovation road

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We were lucky enough to travel to Hamamatsu - the home of Yamaha musical instruments in Japan, where they were celebrating 45 years of making synthesizers. They have a large exhibition hall called Innovation Road which tracks the beginnings of Yamaha from 1897 and their first reed organs, through their products (not all of which are instruments) upto the modern day.
Yamahasynth's Nate Tschetter took us through it.
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@Psychlist1972 4 года назад

Oh! I thought those red hands said "do not touch" but they actually say "try playing for yourself". How awesome :)

@annother3350 4 года назад

It would be awesome if the video contained some playing!!!

@MarkRigler 4 года назад

@@annother3350 I think Nick would still be weeks later

@tonycowin 4 года назад

Some are please play and some are do not touch.

@ahp8695 3 года назад

@@tonycowin if its the hand with the music note its "play" and if its hand with cross over it it's "dont touch"

@paulanderson7796 2 года назад

@@annother3350 I agree. Can't see the point of simply talking about musical instruments. James Pavel Shawcross is another one who can't shut up. His YT channel is here: ru-vid.comvideos

@eiffe 4 года назад

I love how Yamaha over the years has been pretty consistent with their simple design language.

@timragland1858 4 года назад

I was doing a key replacement on a Yamaha Motif and while inside, I noticed the key assembly/technology was identical to the Yamaha DX7 !!! They haven’t changed much throughout the years and they’re still one of the best keyboard makers, hands down !!!

@lundsweden Год назад

The GX1 was like a halo synth, a brilliant idea from Yamaha. The technology eventually filtered down to their more affordable CS synths that took them to 1983, when the DX7 changed everything!

@musiqsoundsproductions 6 месяцев назад

As an official yamaha drums promotor, and instrument geek in general, I always found it a sham that I have never visited the factories and the custim centres. What an experience!!! Just sold the YC-45D. what a killer instrument that was.

@AbdiPianoChannel 4 года назад

Mr. Yamaha I salute you. The Yamaha GX-1 is proud of his great great great grand son The MONTAGE

@PatrickRosenbalm Год назад

I loved this!! Saw several of my vintage Yamaha synths in here. DX7 and CS01 to name a couple. Also at 6:10, Looks like an Electone E75 organ. I have a D85 which is its little brother. Very impressive for their vintage of late 70s to early 80s. I believe the D85 was introduced in 1980. Mine was made in 1982. They will do some very lush string sounds. Really nice when ran through a phaser.

@R---66---R 4 года назад

Let's sincerely hope these ultimate Yamaha buildings are built on solid ground/none of these technological miracles should ever fade away in time.

@localtechnique 4 года назад

lol @ "That's quite jazzy" So much amazing stuff there.

@robertsyrett1992 4 года назад

Great bit of reporting! Lovely to see all the various Yamaha instruments from throughout history.

@iixorb 4 года назад

Strange how little interest Nick showed in the Yamaha DX7 ?! But his eyes lit up when he saw a TX7 !

@danielpirone8028 4 года назад

Thank you for sharing this!

@CommunityGuidelines 4 года назад

Ah, so THAT'S what Heaven looks like!

@DarkSideofSynth 4 года назад

Best part is you don't have to die to go there :))))

@ANTHONYBOOTH 4 года назад

now I NEED a COLD SHOWER!!!

@DavidLee07 4 года назад

We're in the Good Place!

@BertGrink 4 года назад

Awesome tour! Thanks, Sonicstate, for sharing this! Greetings from Denmark :D

@Psychlist1972 4 года назад

Great walkthrough. Looks like a super cool place to visit.

@adam872 4 года назад

Worth it just to see the GX-1 in the flesh (so to speak).

@grproteus 4 года назад

Thanks for the super-aweome video!

@otherreality 4 года назад

Amazing, simply.

@JamesMyddelton 2 года назад

Awesome, I *have* to go and see this

@KeytarKris Год назад

Totally awesome

@mackadresse6095 Год назад

WOW This is intersecting! What a lesson in Yamaha Instrument History!

@ANTheWhizkid Год назад

A really cool tour

@patricksaxon3983 4 года назад

My favorite Yamaha Electone is the FX-1. I sure wished that Yamaha would bring the Electone Stegea to America.

@S06WSW9 Год назад

FX-1 is actually a pre-DX7 FM technology, FX-1 sounds far warmer and richer than DX7.

@kiannikoobakht3937 4 года назад

Great yamaha thanks for your inovations.............

@muzikman2008 4 года назад

Excellent video... Enjoyed that trip down Yamaha lane 😎👍

@avva3802 4 года назад

Interesting! Thanks!

@peterldelong 4 года назад

My first keyboard besides an acoustic piano was a Yamaha CP-30 and my first dirt bike was a Yamaha YZ-100. Yamaha.

@tarjiband9904 4 года назад

wow! it was such journey into history and back! Thank you n I just added it to my "watch Laters".

@TechGently 4 года назад

Blake and Dom Sighting! Love the CFX on my MODX. My family had a Steinway built in 1863 and got to say, Yamaha has a competitive sound board.

@burprobrox9134 4 года назад

Great video nick

@10010011001100110101 4 года назад

Okay this video had me melting

@user-mj8tx1or1v 3 года назад

👍Amazing!👍

@psandvik 6 месяцев назад

I saw Brent Mydland of the Grateful Dead the GS1 live in the spring of 1983. The sound was stunning. I think he may have been the first to tour with one.

@Jamaicafunk 4 года назад

This brought back a lot of memory’s...damn seeing a lot of gear that I didn’t realized I owned at some time...KX5..CS01...RX11...DX100...KX88...

@isomuf707 4 года назад

Wonderful Yamaha music world 🥰

@timothyverbist5795 3 года назад

What a collection, i'm jealous!

@SRDhain 4 года назад

Ah..good to see their grooveboxes at the end, which i still love to this day. The RM1X AND RS2000 (which would always remind me of the rip snorting ford coupe) had fantastic sequencers; powerful, precise (480 ppqn if i remember correctly) and quick to set up and use. I think the time is right for an RM1X remix (ahem). Come on Yamaha, let's have some shiny new grooveboxes...you know it makes sense! 😎

@sjcongo 4 года назад

the master sequencer of the 90s was QY700 by Yamaha of course

@juhoojala2858 4 года назад

There's a saying among musicians in my home country of Finland "Yamaha ei pamaha", meaning that Yamaha never breaks down. Cool to see this stuff.

@ElectoneGuy Год назад

I've been playing Electone organs since 1980. Currently own a FX-20, HS-8 and EL-90.

@rodneyjweltham150 2 года назад

What a row! I have a mid-70's red and black combo organ (purchased new!) and the design language is consistant on many later instruments...paddle switches etc...fascinating

@AllTheTimeWasted 4 года назад

Even though you're mostly doing keyboards, fantastic!

@kfirtsairi3986 4 года назад

wow amazing heaven

@peterkadarmusic9728 4 года назад

This was really cool. Thanks to Nick and the SS crew!

@melonenstrauch1306 3 года назад

Yamaha feels like the Nintendo of instrument companies.

@JohnWellings-mz2ue 7 месяцев назад

Great video, a place I would love to visit. Nick Batt is slowly becoming a British national treasure. Very different enjoyable video. Thanks

@lawrencedoliveiro9104 Год назад

2:55 Yes, transistors, apparently, apart from the power amp. Remember, the Japanese were pioneers in using the transistor in electronic equipment, back when the US electronics giants were still firmly committed to their investments in vacuum tubes.

@lundsweden 2 месяца назад

I was born in 1973, I remember our first Australian made TV, maybe made in the late 60s/early 70s, all vacuum tube. The tubes regularly went out, and there was a whole bunch of them in there, I Guess for both audio and video functions. T.V repairmen were a common sight then, and they made lots of money! We then got a transistorized Sanyo colour TV in 1976 or '77, it proudly had "Solid state" badges on the front, most audio/video gear did back then. Funny enough the Sanyo was Australian made too, due to high import taxes. People back then were jealous of our "huge" 63cm (24") TV and said it was too big for our living room, lol.

@TopperMIDI 4 года назад

Wow! The GX-1 looks like something that Darth Vader might have somewhere off in the corner of his living room...

@synthshoot1026 4 года назад

Very interesting.

@tomschaffner9704 4 года назад

Heaven.

@MikkelGrumBovin 4 года назад

What a fine tour de Force, from the always relevant Nick Batt!

@5argetech56 4 года назад

the GX-1 was a ton of fun :)

@LavLab 4 года назад

Wow!!! 👽👍

@tonymason6686 4 года назад

That GX-1.......drool.

@DarkSideofSynth 4 года назад

Knee modulation and levels on the seat... that makes any current MIDI controller look like a toy ;)

@NeptuneReturnz 4 года назад

I have three Yamaha keyboards but only cheap ones. The DJX and PSS 680 are great fun 👍

@bairahrecordings 4 года назад

Interesting. 🔥👍🏿😎

@ralphykeysartist 4 года назад

Very cool, i have owned or played close to a majority of the synths they showed. Wish i could have got to play the GX but alas no luck. ELP used it on Fanfare for The Common Man, and Jon Paul Jones used it for Kashmir at Knebworth. And from what i understand it was the same exact unit used on both songs. I was a student at Berklee College of Music in 1985 at the beginning of midi, Mac and sampling. We had the Dx7, which i also owned. We also had the RX7, I think, an early digital drum machine. I also had the TX816 which was up on the wall. I created close to 1000 patches for the DX7, that i still have. We had an SY77 and EX5 here at Berklee to use, along with the VL01, we also had the 07. Some great memories. I always wanted a CP70 but couldn't afford it. We have Yamaha Pianos everywhere at Berklee as well (Acoustic). Definitely have to visit this place and play around.

@Wagoo 4 года назад

You may be better going to visit Riksmixningsverket studio in Stockholm if you want to play a GX-1 (ABBA's), as it seems, at least according to this video, Yamaha's GX-1 at this showroom isn't in working order (a bit disappointing!)

@ralphykeysartist 4 года назад

@@Wagoo Thanks for the info, i didn't notice but you are right they didn't play it. Yeah, the place in Stockholm and the place in NY are also on my list as places that have tons of synths to play around on

@SynthsandSounds 4 года назад

Great video! Looking at this I wish yamaha would pick up some of their earlier analog technology. Though you guys made me check my speakers since you inverted left and right audio channel :)

@sonicstate 4 года назад

How do you know? Not sure there was any stereo imaging in this video....

@SynthsandSounds 4 года назад

@@sonicstate Whenever i see nick on the left, he talks on my right speaker and vice-versa. in the head to head conversations it was always opposite of what i've seen

@DarkSideofSynth 4 года назад

As Warren Huart would say.... Marvellous!

@muppetpaster 2 года назад

GX-1....My dad had one...Until we moved house and he decided not to lug it around anymore...sadly...(we tended to move a lot those days) At the time it was the only one in Europe in private possesion...

@ANTHONYBOOTH 4 года назад

I have currently got a TG-55 and a PSR E-323... looking forward to getting hold of ANY classics - especially RACK MOUNT!!!

@EgoShredder 3 года назад

TG55 is great and I also have a SY55 which can be connected with the TG55 in a special mode, to give double polyphony.

@Synthesizer_attic Год назад

Yamaha should show the photos of the engineers and innovators that invented these instruments

@WildernessMusic_GentleSerene 4 года назад

Yes, the Reface DX is a very intuitive programmable FM synth. Anyone who wishes to dive into FM sound design should own one....I do.

@SPAZZOID100 4 года назад

Digitone

@Shred_The_Weapon 4 года назад

I’ve often wondered whether or not the touch sensitivity technology in the CS-80 synthesizer (not including the polyphonic aftertouch) was of the same type which made its way into the GS1 and DX1 models during the 80s (ultimately evolving into the garden-variety digital piano touch). The way it was written that piano players found it a joy to play would suggest that it bolstered proto hammer action.

@pizzagogo6151 4 года назад

Hamamatsu- home base for Japan synth history amazing that one place has Yamaha, Korg, Roland and Kawai! Shame the general synth- public don’t have access to this but glad Nick was able to show us anyway.

@sonicstate 4 года назад

The Innovation Road is open to the public. If you are passing

@pizzagogo6151 4 года назад

sonicstate , cool! Didn’t know that, tried to get into the Roland museum but unfortunately not possible without press credentials

@ulfsoderlund7100 4 года назад

For those of you wondering how the Yamaha GX-1 actually sounds like, here is a recent recording straight from the outputs using various factory tone presets: soundcloud.com/ulf-soderlund/yamaha-gx-1-5041-upper-and-lower-rank-test/s-1WI90

@therestorationofdrwho1865 4 года назад

I'm dying to play that CS-80!!!!

@belguitars7102 4 года назад

Fanstastic, location booked for after Xmas trip to Japan!!!

@SkiCoach1 3 года назад

Shit. Keyboards and Drum machines that I used to own are now in a museum.

@chaosme1ster 4 года назад

@8:35 That's a Yamaha E70 organ behind them. Bought one in near mint condition for 130 euro's 2 years ago. Same filters and envelopes as the GX1 and CS80. And with the knee lever everyone seems to drool about in the comments :).

@ReubenSound 4 года назад

I like the triangle under the GX1. Ting!

@chloedevereaux1801 4 года назад

IT'S A MODULATION CONTROLLER NOT A TRIANGLE

@ReubenSound 4 года назад

@@chloedevereaux1801 If you don't get the joke, you shouldn't shout about it 🤦

@grahammarsh4652 4 года назад

Nate has the best job in the world. I work in a factory that make control units for valves ffs.

@mikestckl6939 3 года назад

yamaha is the best instrument/motorcycle comapny ever ! change my mind ! xD

@MiamiVisor 11 месяцев назад

Yamaha rules. Love all the Mario Bellini designed products, Yamaha was killing it in the mid to late 80's.

@braincoral9866 4 года назад

this was fun..the first piano I ever played on was a Yammy..at school in the 70s..I was like "don't they make motorcycles?" then I picked up a Yamaha guitar...next Yamaha product I owned was a DX100 15 years later!

@asdifasi5379 3 года назад

22:23 legends qx3 sequencer rx ...drum machine on the left and qy 70 and qy100 on the right

@pianokeyjoe Год назад

Now I remember the ORIGINAL reason for wanting to visit Japan lol! To think, I have amassed a collection of Yamaha electronic musical instruments worthy of small limited Museum I can/will build soon. Sadly, my stuff is NOT new and pristine so it is a Yamaha pauper Museum lol. Oh how I do love Yamaha pianokey baby!!

@roncheetham673 3 года назад

yeah .

@EgoShredder 3 года назад

16:33 - The keyboard on the top of this stand is the Japanese version of the excellent QS300 workstation released in 1995. Exactly the same just different looks and should really have been named W300 as it is part of the W range technology-wise and in case design.

@thaexception3406 Год назад

Niice

@AndreasLindholm 4 года назад

John Paul Jones actually used Bennys GX1 when they recorded Led Zeppelin

@ulfsoderlund7100 4 года назад

John Paul Jones used his Yamaha GX-1 #5076 during the recording sessions of "In Through the Out Door" (November/December 1978) at the then newly opened Polar Studios. Benny Andersson caught wind of Johns GX-1 and when ABBA went on a promo tour to Japan later that year, he visited Yamaha HQ and requested a demo of the GX-1 and the rest, as they say, is history. Benny's GX-1 #5088 was the last one to be delivered from Yamaha (in early 1979) and it was subsequently first used on "Does Your Mother Know" (recorded February 1979). Here is a picture of the GX-1 #5076 from november 1978 at Polar Studios: minfil.com/k2f9T789n3/Yamaha_GX-1_5076_1978_jpg. Note the absence of the P BRI, L BRI, U BRI, S BRI, L RAN and U RAN switches found on the GX-1 #5088: minfil.com/s7i1T98fn1/Yamaha_GX-1_5088_2017_jpg

@ivanyokhna 4 года назад

Looking forward to listen that promised Yamaha VP1 cause there is nothing on net and information about it at all . Cheers!!!

@davidryle 4 года назад

If Yamaha ever makes an airplane then I'll get a pilots license. Everything they make is plus good.

@horacioduek 2 года назад

I could spend the rest of my life in there

@InkyDaCaT 4 года назад

Good stuff! Literally rooms full of good stuff...pitty you havent got bigger pockets😕

@decimal1815 2 года назад

Really wanted to spend just a little longer on each synth here

@fburton8 4 года назад

The GX-1 knee trembler technology looks really interesting!

@ulfsoderlund7100 4 года назад

The Yamaha GX-1 knee controller: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DrO80vlBpQY.html

@BertGrink 4 года назад

Sorry to be a party-pooper, but that idea goes back to (at least) "pump" organs; you know the kind that are powered by bellows and pedals where you pump air with your feet. The local priest, whose son i went to school with, had one of those.

@Jimbo386000 4 года назад

Yamaha makes like literally everything...

@dadautube 2 года назад

according to some other resources, the first Yamaha (possibly not an Electone) organ made in 1959 was a B1 not a D1 ... B1 had two tiers of keyboards but only 1 single voice ... and not much more controls and other stuff on it either ... have seen its picture online but couldn't find it right now ...

@WrvrUgoThrUR 2 года назад

Timmy Thomas’ ‘Why Can’t We Live Together’ brought me here.

@Kablehead 4 года назад

If i would be the boss of yamaha museum and i knew Nick Batt's coming to shoot a video i'd get every synth hooked up and ready to play. I'd have the best presets loaded on them and a guy who's a great keys player just in case Nick's tired of noodling himself. But here it's more like: "Oh right, Nick's here. Let's give him the standard tour. We don't need to let him play the synths. He'll leave after a few minutes anyway. Let's show him our Refaces again!" Seems a bit lazy to me. :)

@marcelmaes5275 4 года назад

Oh chips.... I'm getting old, I know almost all the stuff from the time when it came out. Should I thank you for this reminder? Yeah I guess should. Anyway :-)

@dougbrowning82 4 года назад

No reed organs? Back in junior high, our music room was filled with Yamaha DS-49C's, one for every student, while the teacher had an Electone.

@elmosexwhistle 4 года назад

The VP1 and DX1 are he most exciting to me. But I’m odd!

@mikebowlesmusic4515 4 года назад

Lovely. If I could make one comment......cameraman, please don't be afraid to not have the presenters in the shot. Thank you.

@dxutube Год назад

Mind-blowing. Was there a PS-6100 or wss it the PSR6300?

@mikehydropneumatic2583 4 года назад

03:18 that synth with accessories is 7kg heavier than my first car.

@Marius-vw9hp 4 года назад

...and probably 100 times more expensive :p

@chaosme1ster 4 года назад

@@Marius-vw9hp ... and more fun....

@ulfsoderlund7100 4 года назад

The Yamaha GX-1 main unit is 300kg, the normal bench is 60kg and the motorized "music school" bench featured in this video is even heavier, the pedal board is 27kg and the TX-II speakers are 140kg each - up to 6 of those can be connected at once.

@SRDhain 4 года назад

The GX1 was the ultimate synth of the 70s. Keith emerson went through TWO of them, and i think Richard D James had one (or still has one). Apart from the aforementioned, and Benny from ABBA, there may well be a handful of them somewhere in storage or even in a church, which are probably in good condition. Remember folks, that they're not only heavy,but so physically big that people have had to remove fences, doors and even brick walls, in order to get them into their set ups.

@Wagoo 4 года назад

There's a GX1 thread on gearslutz showing Benny's synth and tries to index the location of all known GX1s

@ulfsoderlund7100 4 года назад

@@Wagoo And here it is: www.gearslutz.com/board/electronic-music-instruments-and-electronic-music-production/1042036-yamaha-gx-1-alive.html

@SRDhain 4 года назад

@@ulfsoderlund7100 👍

@SRDhain 4 года назад

Don't forget (as per the clips of it with Keith Emerson, JPJ and Benny of ABBA), to dress to match the particular colour finish of your synth. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dSEClIembvU.html Note how John Paul Jones is dressed in a white suite. The 1970s style telephone resting on top of it, is of course, optional.

@musiqsoundsproductions 6 месяцев назад

JPJ recently got one (again?) I saw on a clip here

@spielor0815 4 года назад

Magical how far Yamaha once was. And sad where they are now.

@johnadams5489 4 года назад

spielor0815 Baloney. Yamaha makes some of the finest instruments in the world. Get a life.

@goodboid 4 года назад

I don't know why Yamaha abandoned their grooveboxes. I managed to get my hands on a RS7000, and it's midi controls are better (more expressive) compared to my Digitakt, Akai Force, TR8s, Pioneer SP16, etc. A smaller lighter RS7000 with better build quality and I'd be all over it. With Roland releasing their new grooveboxes, I hope Yamaha launches one with a modern workflow and with an FM drum engine and sampler.

@subconscious.com_usa6691 4 года назад

I still use mine rs 7000 as a midi controller with my d.a.w, its absolutely fantastic for it, i use the step record function on the rs to input note data etc etc, both the rs sequencer and my d.a.w's sequencer work great together, the step record function on the rs has all the musical time signatures and note value's, so its so easy to copy sheet music into it, it also has some weird note value's of 1ms and other strange classical music note values that no daw has. it also has that fantastic midi delay that you can change the notes of the delay to any note you desire, so you can come up with some musical delay effects etc etc. The sequencer on the rs and the record function can do stuff that no DAW on the market can, its so handy and makes editing on a DAW fast and easy

@SPAZZOID100 4 года назад

good boid Digitone

@5argetech56 4 года назад

Who here remembers the Yamaha Store on W57th st in NYC. ?