I find myself lucky to have bought the SY22 and the SY77 for $100 each within a week apart in the end of summer 2021. These synths each sound gorgeous.
@RetroSunshine97 Craigslist. I live in the NY tri-state area. I find deals all the time. But the deals are everywhere. You just have to stay looking online everywhere. Hey I just found a deal on a mint Roland TR-808 with the midi modification for $1600 from the original owner. It's somewhere in the midwest.
@glenesis Yeah man, thanks. The SY77 is worth whatever price under $600. I love it. In my new setup, either the SY22 or the SY77 will be my new midi controller for everything else.
This brings back great memories of these beautiful sounds from this synth. Sold it many years ago and this demo makes me wish for one again. Very involving and inspirational sounds which you can get really immersed and lost in. Great for these times!
I have always been attracted to hybrid synths. I find it amazing to have 3 or 4 synths completely different and not like millions that repeat sounds or specs from synth to synth. I have this Kurzweil stage piano synth, the Korg Triton Karma, and now this "lite" buddy! Just wanted a simple, light synth to create atmospheres for music productions. I guess I got it! Great value for the money (US$ 170).
I love it when someone does a good demo of showing the sounds unique to certain synthesizers instead of someone just playing the piano, electric piano, organ as if they’re showing off instead of showing us what the synth is capable of. Love the big lush sounds on this, I’ve got a sy55 and noticed a few of the samples used are the same but mine doesn’t have the FM synthesis although you can get some good original sounds with a bit of tweaking
Thanks for the comments! Yea, unless it's a stage keyboard or the like, I do always tend to go after the more atmospheric sounds as it's these that tend to set any one keyboard apart from the rest.
Dude the sy22 is AMAZING. I own one too, it’s just inspiring and mind blowing. Have you created presets and saved sounds to the front panel for fast recall? I am having trouble doing that... sound designing in the sy22 is so fun 🎛🎛🎛🎛🎛🎛
I was just watching a video from synth4ever this week demonstrating some really great sounds using the TG33, the rack version of this synth: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--5egOMAmMUM.html
vector synthesis by sequential on its prophet VS and its subsequent demise brought out the mighty Wavestation, competed by Roland's own version heavyweight..the JD800.. vector synthesis still holds strong today reincarnating though decades as Korg OASYS and now in the korg KRONOS.. what a journey of imaginative and evocative soundscapes.. people who have only seen VSTs and software samples cant understand the astounding experience of encountering these keyboards in the late 80s and 90s.. one had to be a real patient wizard to get such complex sounds of the DX7II/ S using the full power of the 6 oscillators and 32 algorithms.. and these basically came loaded with such sounds that could be controlled real time using the trackball/joystick and the twin wheels.. what an era.. sigh
My thoughts exactly. Whilst a lot of the VSTs sound really great, with some amazing sounds to be had from them, there was something about the sheer wonder of hearing the sound of the Wavestation or the JD-800 for the first time, when there was nothing else out there that sounded anything like them (there are demos of both these beasts elsewhere on my channel). I wasn't so taken with the SY22, although it does have a few interesting sounds (17, 18 and 25 in the demo, for example). I've just got hold of the Wavestate and, although some are saying that it doesn't match up to the Wavestation, I think it takes these sounds to a whole new realm - kinda "Wavestation squared".
@@billyruss the only grouse is that we are just revisiting the past with reissues re imagined with current tech. But no one is pushing the envelope further as they did back then, inspite of all computing power and storage being compounded, but being miniaturised in physical size.
You obviously knew how to show this synth with some of its very best sounds in a good light by interesting playing. Owned it for years but don't have it anymore.
My favourite preset was the one at 7:7 - well, it was on the TG33 (but not SY35 I now have) :/ I used the TG33 for 20years. FYI:Here are some tracks I made on the TG33 if one wants to hear it in a multitimbral/demo context. All sounds are from TG33 with no outboard effects. soundcloud.com/squishmusic/sets/from-the-analogue-graves
This is stunning! it amazes me, Korg is re-releasing their classic & some modern synths to rave reviews , Roland, though their efforts are a bit piss poor in execution comparatively, is doing the same. Why is Yamaha, who has arguably the most iconic lineage of synths, sleeping on this market!? I would buy every SY, FS, EX, & PSR VST they released.... that pipe organ is insanely good! I thought the 01/W's was great. then the
I don't know the SQ1 so well but, in my opinion the SY77 probably has the most atmospheric sounds. There's a demo of the Alpha Juno elsewhere on my channel - it's a much more 80s synth sounding keyboard. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SUuSL-JoHZs.html
@@billyruss as soon as I asked that I realised. I've just got this synth and hadn't memorised the preset names yet. You really make even the factory patches sparkle!
