Yamaha SY22 | Trade or throw?

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Yamaha SY22 - Dynamic Vector Synthesizer. From 1990. When Sequential Circuit went out of business and was bought up by Yamaha some of the team, headed by John Bowen went to work on the Korg Wavestation (also owned by Yamaha at the time) while Yamaha themselves went on to work on the SY22. As with the Prophet VS and the Wavestation, the SY22 works with 4 different elements, sound sources, oscillators or whatever you might call them, and with a joystick you can control their relative levels to each other. Or you can use the joystick to detune them.
Coupled with in-built internal effects, 16 voices of polyphony and 8-part multi timbral (as well as a drum kit) it was a cheaper alternative of getting into "vector" synthesis.
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Since the shooting of this video I've traded my SY22 for a Yamaha DX9. The one from an earlier video. I've never really liked the sound coming out of the SY22. It can definitely be lo-fi, or glossy, and it can be a nice textured contrast to other synths, but sometimes you just don't "click" with certain synths and for me this is one of those cases.
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@Dick-Dastardly 2 года назад

I've got an SY22 and I rather like it! It can make some great atmospheric sounds that I have not found anywhere else.

@timerunner9844 2 года назад

Personally I like the SY22 sounds, but I can see why it's not to everyone's taste. I've also been enjoying the honesty of your recent videos reviewing hardware. It's nice to see someone willing to voice an opinion rather than just conclude everything is "good".

@EspenKraft 2 года назад

Cheers!

@speedhead42 2 года назад

The SY22 will always have a place in my heart, as it was my very first "professional" synth. I bought it brand new in 1993, when I was only 16 years old. The main reason I bought it was that it was basically the only synth I could afford back then! :D It was on sale at my local music store and so I went for it. Good times! ;)

@Venatt1 2 года назад

Back then I was 20, I had a Roland U20 but a wish I had bought the SY22, they had it a local Music Store, but though their prices were always very expensive and around a decade later they went out of business.

@Am71919 Год назад

@@Venatt1 I've always wanted a roland U20, it's the ying to the Korg 01w's yang

@Venatt1 Год назад

@@Am71919 back in the day I wanted a 01W $2100 but just couldn’t afford it, so I got the U20 for $1000

@Am71919 Год назад

@@Venatt1 I was in high school when the u20 came out, I couldn't afford it then, so I got a Yamaha PSS 460, outside of midi, it did everything the u20 and the 01 W did and then some, I just picked up a PSS 570 the other day, did a few videos on it, I'm going to do many more because that little synth can do soooooooooo much

@SamiJumppanen Год назад

I think SY22 is still the most expensive synth/sampler/xyz I've ever had. I planned to buy it with my summer job money, and while waiting for the summer to end Finnish mark was devaluated and the price went up from 4500 to 5500 FIM. Well, my father helped :)

@alanmonaghan2706 2 года назад

I picked up one of these for about £80. It had two broken black keys. Replacement keys were about £3 each. Not too difficult to replace but I had to remove the keyboard and pull out the rubber strip at the back to release the faulty keys. When you do that they all start popping out. Once it was all back together it plays fine. I use it every Tuesday night in the pub it is very light sounds fine. I use a Behringer rotary pedal with the rock organ voice. A lot easier to carry than my DX7. Thumbs up from me.

@simonwaterhouse4980 2 года назад

Trade or throw? Neither, keep! I had a TG33 back in the day & loved the sounds….still do.

@Slashdance 2 года назад

I own Dwayne Goettel from Skinny Puppy's slightly smashed SY22. It came loaded with a bunch of wonderfully nightmarish patches. Another great video as always Mr. Kraft!

@DEATH__EXE 2 года назад

that is so awesome!!! i wonder what they sound like!!

@chriswareham 2 года назад

Would you consider posting his patches online, or at least putting up a video demonstrating them? He was a sound programming genius, both with synths and samplers. A big fan of the SY77 as well from what I've read.

@Michael_Smith-Red_No.5 2 года назад

I'm a big fan of acquiring equipment from artists I like, so big ups to you!

@EspenKraft 2 года назад

Thanks!

@Slashdance 2 года назад

@@chriswareham Sadly I lost them as at the time (20 years ago or so) I didn't know how to back them up and the memory card ran on a watch battery. I wrote Cevin Key on Patreon about a year ago to ask if he maybe had the patches backed up but he didn't have them either. I did discover that by using the random function in the windows editor you could get in the ballpark of those sounds pretty easy after a couple of tries by messing with a few parameters.

@FLH3official 2 года назад

Oh, yes, multitimbral was something in the 90s, we didn't have money to buy a lot of synths and having one which could play a bass on one note, a pad with 6 notes and an ear-candy on another single note was realy a thing.

@FLH3official 2 года назад

@gridsleep ? 🧐 In my time it was we did, different sounds from one cheap module. If you did have a big multitrack recorder you could do many things with layers but I didn't have such an expensive thing so I did that when I was 20. With a TX81z, a QX21, a juno1, a TR505, an 8 track mixing desk, a cheap Torque spring reverb and a cassette deck. 👨🏼‍🦳

@lundsweden 2 года назад

F L H 3 is right, back in the 80s and 90s poor musos (most of us) used to try to get a few sounds out of one module. We would hook it up to an Atari ST, primitive Windows or Mac and control it that way. The programs on the computers were reffered as sequencers, not DAWs as there was no recording back then. You would record the stereo mix to cassette or maybe a WAV file if your computer could manage audio too!

@glenesis 2 года назад

Some of us still work this way ☺️

@TayWoode Год назад

@@glenesisyep me! 😂

@davidhayes8883 2 года назад

MOBY was all over this synth in the 90s. He once said 'Hi, I'm Richard Melville Hall and I am the Nineties'!

@We.Are.Lockhart 2 года назад

Alongside with the Kawai K-1 and the Roland D-10 the Yamaha SY-22 forms the trinity of underrated budget digital "vintage"-synthesizers.

@TokyoScarab 2 года назад

Why is vintage in quotes? lol

@suadcokljat1045 2 года назад

You forget the Roland D-5 ;-)

@TokyoScarab 2 года назад

@@suadcokljat1045 But putting vintage in quotes implies that the SY22 is somehow not like 30 years old lol

@suadcokljat1045 2 года назад

@@TokyoScarab So only analog is pure vintage? Got your point ;-) Cheers!

@TokyoScarab 2 года назад

@@suadcokljat1045 I'm not. I'm just saying vintage is based on time and not because it's analog or digital. What are you even talking about? lol

@GMCorchestra 2 года назад

Just wanna say it sounds really good to me. A nice distinct flavor from analog.

@nagchumpalot 2 года назад

I will always keep mine because I brought it from Moby he used those strings all over his tracks.. I just recorded a track with it on my channel with the Analog four and Pro 3 the SY22 strings fit in perfectly right away.

@SamiJumppanen Год назад

Yayy! Good!

@serhiymarchenko8361 Год назад

I totally agree - strings on SY22 sound real good and have tons of character.

@andygriffith5160 2 года назад

I like it. It sounds like low-budget early-90s cop show soundtracks you used to see on night time TV.

@EspenKraft 2 года назад

I like that idea, I just have other "lo-fi" synths I'd rather use for that soundtrack. ;-)

@georgegeez8708 Год назад

I have to say I like the SY22. I ended up getting it in a 2 for 1 deal which included a Korg Microkorg. Got them both for $190 USD. Both were in mint condition. I got lucky with this deal. A few weeks later I ended up getting a mint SY77 for $100 USD. Not bad for deals within 1 month. Great video. 👍 👍👍👍👍

@EspenKraft Год назад

Cheers!

@chriswareham 2 года назад

These were incredibly cheap to buy second hand, so I got one on a bit of a whim a few years ago. I found it way too limited in terms of programmability, and never found a use for the vector control - for me at least it seemed to be a useless gimmick. Sold mine and stuck with the "full fat" FM synthesis of the SY77.

@jairkerker2821 2 года назад

The vector stick and the ability to record the vector movement are great, bought one for those reasons alone.

@vjrei Год назад

Very good sound, it was a very good introductory synth. Very good sound.

@akesvensson3778 Год назад

Me and my brother bought one around 1992. We still have it! :)

@guts2112 Год назад

First synth I ever played. My dad bought one a few years after it came out.

@peterj.9713 2 года назад

My first ever Synth was a SY22 where I learned to program Sounds. It uses FM and Samples combined and could sound better with a good external chorus and reverb. The "Itopia" on this Synth sounds beautiful . Thank you for demonstrating ,cheers ;-)

@SamiJumppanen Год назад

Same here, my first synth. Swapped to TG33 later and won't sell it :)

@subs4794 2 года назад

"See you next time, cheese."

@slowblack3947 Год назад

SY-22. One of my favorite digital synths.

@opipik1650 2 года назад

The SY22 sounds good (in the "so bad it's good" way), but people nowadays ask too much for it.

@BaconFire 2 года назад

Not only do I like the Sy22, but I really dig the HummingBird shirt. We have a lot of those birds here in Southern California. Thanks for bringing the SY22 to our attention - I may need to pick one up. I hope your trade goes smoothly Espen. :)

@EspenKraft 2 года назад

I love shirts with birds on them, although I don't wear many in my videos. Must be cool to have hummingbirds right outside your door. Where I live we have wolves and elks. ;-) The trade was done some time ago. When videos are published they're often not very new. ;-) The video description will tell what I got instead. Cheers

@generalgrafx 2 года назад

Reminds me of fact that I still have three SY35’s staring at me, that I have to clean and do some minor maintenance and repairs on.

@sparkyfolf9487 8 месяцев назад

Still sounds beautiful as always.

@noisetheorem 2 года назад

I have the tabletop version (TG33). It was the first synth I purchased that could be considered 'professional'. I have found it works best when run through good external FX (internal are absolute crap) and sampled. The SY35, which is closer to the TG33, had better DA. I've sampled mine a lot and I've recently been converting my personal patches to work on the Korg Wavestate. There are somethings the Yamaha got right, for example the Vector recording (which was more like a motion sequencer than an envelope) was superior, I think, to other vector synths that only let you have a simple 3 or 4 stage env. In addition, there is editor software that lets you get in and actually modify the 2op FM synthesis parts. Without that, it's largely a preset box with very little control over the FM voices. It's flawed, but it has an interesting niche in my studio.

@sauermusicDE 2 года назад

"The SY35, which is closer to the TG33" >> The TG33 was actually based on the SY22...but with additional outputs and more polyphony.

@didiervermot3005 2 года назад

Hi Is there a chance you'll sell me the SY samples plsase ?

@infindebula 2 года назад

The SY35 actually has a different sample set (not sure if all the samples are different, but some definitely are). It's still got some grit, but less than the SY22/TG33.

@EuroDJ Год назад

@@sauermusicDE but SY22 sounds pleasant .... TG33 more cold ... like TG77

@SamiJumppanen Год назад

@@infindebula I've once seen and heard SY35. I remember it sounding very high quality compared to SY22/TG33 (indeed different sample ROM and perhaps resolution, I don't recall that now). Also, it didn't sound interesting. Couldn't think of switching to SY35 for higher quality sound... It just got worse with SY55, all ROM samples (but: filter!). SY55 also has a sequencer, but IMO not enough memory (to record my acid tweaks).

@donkeyadaml. 2 года назад

Great performance 👍👍👍 Have a nice day and new week 😉 Greetings 😎

@motif1974 2 года назад

I had a tg33 since it first came out until about a year ago when i sold it and it took me almost a year of convincing myself to sell it. Mostly sold it to free up space as i wasn't using it as much as i used too. I too found it had a certain niche in my setup.

@AGDugros 2 года назад

Very good video I don’t know this synth very well. Thanks

@EspenKraft 2 года назад

Cheers!

@leegreveson 2 года назад

My school bought one at the same time as an Atari running Notator in 1990/91. It was useful for GCSE Music where you had to compose a piece of multi part music as part of the coursework. I remember it easily ran out of polyphony and started note grabbing. They also had a Yamaha V-50 (which was how I learned sequencing) a Yamaha RX7 and a 4 track Tascam portastudio, all underused by most people but for a few of us. It did the job to be fair, so some of these sounds were a pure nostalgia trip. Shouldn't there be an unspoken rule.... Never throw out a synthesizer! 🤣

@EspenKraft 2 года назад

The thumbnail is of course just for fun. I'd never throw out a piece of gear. I did trade it though. ;-)

@TheTonylopezband Год назад

Love the sy22 our go to synth in our music back in 2005 😀

@grogboggoth 2 года назад

Had a TG33. Regret selling it, to be honest. Some of the orchestral sounds were way ahead of more expensive ROMplers of the day and I managed to coax some good noises out of it using the vector recording plus the very limited, 2-op FM engine. Some of the presets are pretty great, too. I'm not sure that I'd use it as much now as I did back in the day but it has a few inimitable noises that would stand up in a contemporary context.

@lab-by-the-sea 2 года назад

Same here, as a PSB-FB i had to try it, but i liked the PVS and the Wavestation more.

@barryward7633 2 года назад

Thank you Espen, a great review as always, did I hear you play a bit of Kate Bush's Running up that hill, cheers from New Zealand.

@EspenKraft 2 года назад

Cheers!

@McTroyd 2 года назад

That vector control was a pretty neat way to gloss over the limitations of this synth. Truthfully though, I have a (admittedly much newer) consumer-grade Yamaha synth that can produce bigger and better sounds than this. Looking forward to seeing what you get in trade!

@EspenKraft 2 года назад

The trade is in the video description. ;-)

@larsbergen6126 2 года назад

In general I agree with the idea that there are instruments that are good but you just don't get the click using it. I've owned several SY-Series synths. The TG-55 and the TG-500 were not bad at all but I never found my way towards them and so I sold them again.The SY-77 and my TG-33 on the other hand have a save place in my collection.

@rorschach1 Год назад

Gotta love the Kate Bush at 7:00

@texacomann 2 года назад

If you like it or not depends only on your own needs, and what you make out of it. In general you cant say good or bad, just be creative! The joy Stick could never impress me.

@philiptm1243 2 года назад

Y22..sounds great..so owning it..this Synth..I am sure..it vl be an Asset for..All..Detailing of this Keyboard n Comparison..with similar Keyboard..by your channel..Very Useful..Nice..⛱️⛱️👍

@pianokeyjoe 2 года назад

I wish I had NOT sold off all my synths from that time and era.. Oh how I regret it now in these uncertain times! I thought I heard some TG100 AWM2 presets in there! That Geewwnnn synth bass is unmistakable lol!

@peterkadarmusic9728 11 месяцев назад

I just got a TG-33 and a few RAM cards and I'm loving it. Might not be the greatest synth ever made but it and the 22 were good value for the time.

@miguelrejas5034 Год назад

I had the chance and I took it. For ambient.. film or FX is very good. I was kinda sad... had to sell it in order to complete money for the new addition to come: An EX7. And is way better in every sound to SY22. So, I'm glad I made up my mind. Can't denie there's some nostalgy for that vector.. and some sounds. But I cover more with the EX7.

@michelvondenhoff9673 2 года назад

Way better than a CS80, in particular if you have to pay for it.

@steveblakemore1898 2 года назад

I own an SY35 - better AD and more ROM waveforms. But to make these synths really come alive needs a decent external FX box. The sounds are a bit digital and "of their age" but a bit of effort getting into the vector programming really pays dividends. As a small side note, this makes a good master keyboard to play a Wavestation WS rack, adding the joystick functionality to the rackmount.

@6581punk 2 года назад

I have an SY22 and SY35. Along with the Wavestation, these had input from former Sequential staff. They've started going up in price recently. They were £100-120 synths, creeping up towards £300 now. But they were never expensive, more curiosities.

@EspenKraft 2 года назад

None of the people from Sequential worked on the SY22. I have this information from John Bowen himself.

@80ssynthfan48 2 года назад

I would be amazed at anyone who would buy a SY35 for £300.

@chloedevereaux1801 2 года назад

my sy22 was £599 when new

@stickyfox 2 года назад

The keybed was fantastic on these models. I really didn't need it but I regret selling my SY35 for that reason.

@TheTerracide Год назад

@@EspenKraft you are wrong. John Probably means tbat Josh Effe, Tony Dean and Chris Meyer did not work it (they were the original developers of the ProphetVS) but they did not work on the SY22 but neither on the Wavestation.

@larslevinberget9558 2 года назад

Basically the technology from the Prophet VS that was recycled in the KORG WS. I like both, but they may not be the right choice as your "only synth". Helps create some magic MIDIed together with your 01/W or TG55

@AndersEngerJensen 2 года назад

I’m sure it will come to safe and welcoming hands… 😉😁

@EspenKraft 2 года назад

I think so too. :)

@h.guntersson2243 2 года назад

The best thing about the sy22 was the scratch samples in the drum set. "Rockit". You should buy the synthesizer for that alone.

@lundsweden 2 года назад

I like the sound of the SY22 personally!

@cdwhiley Год назад

I'm curious if the SY-22 has the same joystick midi capability as my TG-33. On my TG-33 the joystick can transmit its motion via MIDI CC so you can record the motion into a sequencer....or use it to control something else on the midi network. Need to review the manual. I have an opportunity to buy one of these locally for $75. I want to pair it with my TG33. I also have a TQ5 and want to pair it with a YS200. I love these "crappy" digital yamaha synths. You can have lots of fun by layering them and processing them with outboard.

@jimcurtis9052 2 года назад

Oooooo, floaty version of running up that hill.... 😃👍

@timerunner9844 2 года назад

The outro tune you played reminds me of the theme to Profondo Rosso

@EspenKraft 2 года назад

It is that, just changed it here and there to avoid a "strike". ;-)

@timerunner9844 2 года назад

@@EspenKraft Cool! Definitely one of my favourite Goblin soundtracks.

@EspenKraft 2 года назад

Mine too.

@peterkadarmusic9728 2 года назад

The 22/33 layer well with other gear in a midi stack. They are inexpensive and complement an analog synth especially well.

@BliterTV 2 года назад

There, it is that the presets of the time, with my patches, your opinion can change, maybe. 🙂 You can find my patches under my video "Yamaha TG33 (SY22/SY35) Patch Bliter".

@L77kim77l 2 года назад

Nice cliffhanger! 😎 For me it sounds too 9% like a D-50, but what do I know... 😁

@MrBluGruv 2 года назад

I own a TG-33 myself, and even as someone who generally likes 80's and 90's digital synths that aren't trying to be analogs, I'd admit that this synth and the TG-33 have (broadly speaking) a narrower niche than most digital synths. I think a huge driving factor for that is that the PCM sample palette is quite slim and REALLY pushes the edge of the low end of sample quality/fidelity. This is far from the only synth that, in my opinion, had a great underlying engine but was simply too sparse in samples or underlying horsepower to really shine though (Fizmo and first-gen V-Synth come immediately to mind).

@MagnifiedPorcealin 2 года назад

Me too!!!

@MagnifiedPorcealin 2 года назад

Love that joystick!

@vanselm66 2 года назад

I own a SY55 I bought more than 30 years ago, it still looks and works as the first day 🙂, much better than this model I suppose, although I use it mainly as a midi keyboard.

@sergiodeoliveira5358 2 года назад

GX Dream is one of my all time favorite factory patches of all the synths I have owned over the last 30 years. :)

@pamackie 2 года назад

You never hear anything about the SY55. I was starting to think there was no such thing as an SY55 even though I own one.

@TayWoode Год назад

Haha same! Love it and it never really gets mentioned almost like it’s been forgotten. I love the ethereal sounds like St Michael, Voyager and as well as the synbadbass, get lucky and sax sounds which are great for making 90s dance tracks

@_greenleader 2 года назад

Wonder if a little reverb and chorus could bring it to life

@bhamadicharef 2 года назад

SY synth are really good sounding.

@Shred_The_Weapon Год назад

KEEP IT! Seriously, I’ve been debating for nearly 20 years on getting a TG-33 module. I’ve had lots of opportunities, and I’ve never taken one. There’s no explanation for that. It is the only Victor synthesizer that has ever called out to me. Of all the silly things that I’ve been darting around RU-vid and search up, it is whether or not this synthesizer or that module generates the waveform - oriented sound of a Yamaha electric grand piano. That’s not a reason to say yay or nay on anything, but it would almost be like the cherry on top to know that it does. By the time of my comment, Espen, you probably have already swapped out this model for the one you were after. If I were you, I would’ve given it a second chance. Recent RU-vid demos have shown the SY models had it in them to rattle their analog polyphonic precursors.

@EspenKraft Год назад

Oh, it's long gone. I never look back. Gear come and go, they're just tools, not treasures. ;-)

@Shred_The_Weapon Год назад

If anybody should understand that position, Espen, it’s me. I definitely know about buying, selling and interchanging gear.

@DoctorNemmo Год назад

If you want to make similar sounds and have a joystick control, you could trade this one for the Wavestate. I bought mine a year ago and it's always fun, it has the kind of digital late 80s / early 90s sound that defines an era. Art of Noise, Pet Shop Boys, Jarre. And they are a lot cheaper brand new than many other boutique brands. I love Korg.

@EspenKraft Год назад

I find the looks of the Wavestate very off-putting. ;-)

@ProSimex84 2 года назад

Thats a beautiful watch Espen, what model is it?

@EspenKraft 2 года назад

It's a Parnis GMT.

@espelizarov 2 года назад

How much prices now for sy22?

@tysonhunter4872 2 года назад

I Have One !!...NEED PARTD KEYS.. Anyone know where yo get them??

@joeltaylor2830 2 года назад

I almost bought one to try and get something close to the mighty Prophet VS... but got a Prophet VS instead. The strings sound good on this video for sure. Maybe through a decent preamp with decent effects unit, could take away some of the 'plastic'? Dwayne Goettel from Skinny Puppy made it work like a beast, apparently.

@noisetheorem 2 года назад

I got my TG33 at about the same time as Skinny Puppy released Last Rites. The sounds are all over it, even the drum kit through a much better reverb, is present. Pairing it with a good sampler has been key to it staying relevant in my setup. I'll build crazy layers in multimode and then sample the results with an Ensoniq EPS or EMU EIV. Then you get the filters that it unfortunately misses. This turns it into a whole different animal.

@joeltaylor2830 2 года назад

@@noisetheorem Was it 'Last Rites' it was used on most? Cool - thanks for the info.

@noisetheorem 2 года назад

@@joeltaylor2830 Oh yes. Its all over it.

@stilettosun Год назад

Neither trade nor throw ! Just get the Midiforge interface for SY 35 and start programming with the Randomizer. It will reward you ! I wrote my Black Metal Ep with this and an Sh-101 as a bass. I'm also writing my album on this and an SY85 ! When it's done I'll upload the patches. Great channel btw.

@EspenKraft Год назад

Thanks!

@PatrickRosenbalm 2 года назад

Are you saying it sounds "cheap"? 😅 I think it does. I think you came out better with the DX9.

@angelog.spicolaiii8021 2 года назад

Wavestation & VS are simply superior for vectoring no doubt...it's kinda interesting & hard to believe that Yamaha let korg get an edge on that aspect of synthesis technology...'cause personally I'd rather have an old brown original DX7 than have twenty-two SY-22's in the arsenal EK thanx again dude 😎

@mrdali67 2 года назад

Well, even Korg is still a self owned Company today, it’s the same story as Apple, they got saved from death from a larger company that didn’t want them to die. We can thank Yamaha that Korg lived and got the chance to make some really wonderfull instruments along the path, and still exists today.

@angelog.spicolaiii8021 2 года назад

...not sure what your point is but korg wouldn't be & lucky they even are as so if it weren't for Yamaha lettin'em just show's how loyalty in the Japanese biz model work's dude

@mrdali67 2 года назад

@@angelog.spicolaiii8021 I just ment what I said. It was Yamaha saving Korg as they were in trouble. They could have just enrolled their knowledge into their own business, as Korg is fairly small in comparison to Yamaha, but they didn’t. During the last 4 decades Korg have given much larger competitors a run for their money in cutting edge synth Technology.

@danielfranco156 2 года назад

is there anywhere to download these patches for the SY22?

@EspenKraft 2 года назад

I have no idea.

@cultmember3863 Год назад

Hi can anyone please help me - I cannot seem to transfer patches to my SY22 via sysex librarian. Is there a setting like on the D50 to initiate bulk loads onto the SY22? No internal or presets change after .syx or .mid file is sent :/

@krzysztofwaclawski9002 Месяц назад

Check in setup if ex is ena

@Michael_Smith-Red_No.5 2 года назад

The SY22 is whatever to me. That watch looks awesome, though. It wasn't in the description, so I'm wondering what kind it is.

@EspenKraft 2 года назад

It's a Parnis GMT.

@jerzilla3795 2 года назад

Kinda surprised you didn’t throw it out considering how much enjoyment you seem to get from trolling people 🤣

@EspenKraft 2 года назад

I'm not a troll, I eat trolls though. ;-)

@iamyourfuture808 2 года назад

reminds me of the "thin" sounds of a Kawai k1. not sure itd be worth much as a trade but i wouldn't consider throwing it

@andygriffith5160 Год назад

Just thought I'd mention I ended up buying one of these off eBay (for the princely sum of £80) as a direct result of it being brought back into my consciousness by this video :) I guess it's true, there's no such thing as bad publicity.

@zombeat7376 2 года назад

I have one of these too. I mostly use it as a midi controller as most of the sounds aren't great there is an odd on or two. but to be fair mines I onlyy got the set of presets I got no internal sounds on it. it is nice enough to look at but plasticky as you say and cheap feel...because it is cheap :) but still it is not utter crap. I heard worse.

@krzysztofwaclawski9002 Год назад

This synth has a soul. I'm serious, try the randomize elements and vector and yo will see. Some voices that come out from that are out of this planet.

@miguelgjesus Год назад

I believe the Sy22 was made with Dave Smith based on the VS after Yamaha took over Sequential

@EspenKraft Год назад

According to John Bowen, no one from Sequential worked on the SY22.

@kefmif 2 года назад

I feel that those cheaper synthesizer from SY series are over-hyped. I've bought a cheap multitimbral FM workstation - the Yamaha V50 - for a fraction of what I would have to pay for a SY synth. The sound engine is enought to make modern sounding tracks.

@MrMetalsi 2 года назад

Profondo rosso ? At the start of the vid

@EspenKraft 2 года назад

It is. I've just taken some liberties with it to avoid a strikeout.

@brianhintze6440 2 года назад

I had one…sold it, but wish I had it back. Lesson: Just keep everything.

@henrikgustav2294 2 года назад

Seems to sound fatter than wavestation?

@madness8556 2 года назад

What's the difference between the SY22 and SY35?

@EspenKraft 2 года назад

SY22 is 12-bits where the SY35 is 16-bits. There are other differences as well. A quick Google search get you there fast.

@mrstephenpariah 2 года назад

Profondo Rosso! ❤️ Can you do Phenomena?

@EspenKraft 2 года назад

I do horror themes occasionally. I have top-10 horror themes video with more Italian composers.

@TheTerracide Год назад

You are wrong. The SY22 is not developed by Yamaha alone but also by the devteam led by Dave Smith. Originally the whole team was acquired by Yamaha before going to Korg (Yamaha owned parts of Korg back then)

@EspenKraft Год назад

No, I'm not. John Bowen was very explicit about that when I talked to him about it.

@Venatt1 2 года назад

The Wavestation was developed by Dave Smith and he also developed the SY35. But I guess Jon Bowen must have been part of the developing team.

@EspenKraft 2 года назад

Not according to John Bowen. None from Sequential worked on SY development.

@Venatt1 2 года назад

@@EspenKraft ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gz5KTuDnwvo.html

@ryel4189 2 года назад

I've got an SY22 but i can't really use it anymore, it's seemingly gone out of tune somehow and i don't know how to retune it. Kind of a shame since i really like how it sounds.

@peterj.9713 2 года назад

maybe a factory reset could help ?

@robb1165 2 года назад

The utility menu has Master Tune and Transpose settings. If the individual voices settings have been altered the utility menu also has a Voice Initialize function that will rest the parameters of the current voice.

@ryel4189 2 года назад

@@robb1165 Ahhh, alright i'll see if changing master tuning fixes it

@robb1165 2 года назад

@@ryel4189 If it is too far out of tune for the voice reset and master tuning then it might have an electrical issue. The service manual is still available online. It has two crystal oscillators. They can go bad or the voltage to them could be out of spec. Would need some electronics experience to fix that.

@ryel4189 2 года назад

@@robb1165 Don't think i need to do that, retuning it worked. Also thanks a lot for the info!

@MiamiVisor 2 года назад

TQ5 FTW.

@EuroDJ Год назад

Sound-brother of Kawai K1 )

@crhkrebs Год назад

Is this the synth that the late Dave Smith worked on?

@EspenKraft Год назад

According to John Bowen, no one from Sequential worked on the SY series.

@crhkrebs Год назад

@@EspenKraft Thanks

@PaulioBee 2 года назад

I reckon PSB used this (or its module equivalent) a lot in the 90s.

@EspenKraft 2 года назад

Isn't that what I say in the video? ;-)

@PaulioBee 2 года назад

@@EspenKraft You certainly did. That's what made me think. You identified the string sounds (if I remember) and I just wanted to add that I feel they used it extensively. I quite like the sounds - very clean sounding and clear. But not having filters is a killer. Given PSB are a synth duo who rely on the depth of their sound, I wonder if the blandness of synth sounds in the mid 90s didn't help them at that time.

@vegsozoltan5283 2 года назад

I got SY77 in the end of 1989. Then bought an SY22 as a secondary synth, but I found it boring after the SY77 and sold. IMO the vector "synthesis" isn't a synthesis just simple mixing of voices. Later bought SY99, EX5, MODX and now I have yet an TG500 and a RM50... these are excellent instruments, the SY22 is nowhere near them.

@craigie13 2 года назад

I wouldn't part with my SY22. It was my first ever keyboard with full size keys, so I have an attachment to it.

@EspenKraft 2 года назад

Nostalgia is everything, I respect that.

@gilo7171 2 года назад

Give me that Yamaha ;)

@iixorb 2 года назад

Never throw synths away! Hopefully you were only joking ;-) Throwing synths away is like throwing books away 😳😱

@EspenKraft 2 года назад

It is of course a joke. I never throw anything. The video description has the full story.

@iixorb 2 года назад

@@EspenKraft I have however said to my family to bury me with a synth. Maybe a DX7 🤣. Hopefully not for at least another 30 years! By the way, I mentioned to one of my Norwegian colleagues about the ‘stuffed relative’ thing you once mentioned, and he was perplexed!!

@EspenKraft 2 года назад

You obviously didn't watch that JX-08 video to the end then? Always watch my videos to the end.

@timweinheimer1 2 года назад

Thanks this review maybe trade it for a DX 100

@EspenKraft 2 года назад

What I traded it for is in the video description. ;-)

@timweinheimer1 2 года назад

@@EspenKraft ok I guess I better pay better attention 😆

@EspenKraft 2 года назад

I always recommend checking my video descriptions as I often add more information and sometimes perks as well, and the only ones that can claim those perks are those that actually read the descriptions. ;-)

@timweinheimer1 2 года назад

@@EspenKraft ok 👍 I will pay attention better lol

@SuperAnatolli Год назад

If you have one and don't like it, just send it to me!

@EspenKraft Год назад

Already gone.

@TheBroDotTV 2 года назад

Sounds nice why would you want to get rid of it lol. ;-)

@EspenKraft 2 года назад

Sometimes the love isn't there as I say in the video and I have other tools that are better suited to the job. That's what synths are, tools. ;-)

@aphexon. 2 года назад

If you not traded it already I would trade you SY 55. Just an hour away :D

@EspenKraft 2 года назад

Trade is done some time ago. Videos are always old when they're published.

@tavil1296 2 года назад

Trade or throw? I'd say keep

@EspenKraft 2 года назад

Did the trade.

@tavil1296 2 года назад

@@EspenKraft what is your opinion on the sy 85?

@EspenKraft 2 года назад

Don't have one. Never used it. I had the EX5 that was great though. That's the last workstation type synth I had.

@tavil1296 2 года назад

@@EspenKraft oh nice the ex5 has always been a dream synth of mine I picked up a Yamaha qs300 today I'm enjoying it so far I think I'm going to get a sy22 or 35 next😁