Yamaha SY35 demo (just play, no talk) 

The SY22 is another beautiful instrument. Check my video demoing an SY22: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-W1g2c0TVd-o.html

The new owner sold it again just 3 months later... he said that the synth seemed to be broken because it did not sound as good as it does in my demo :-D

@@JoseAngelMorente Haha Well i have had that a few times But i keep mine and try to get the same sounds in my head out of my monitors. Great board Have a great one

This board with 61 keys velocity and after touch is an awesome board.

I had to replace two keys on my SY35 (they were badly damaged by the previous owner). Have you tried ordering them at Synthtaur? They had stock at that time and wasn’t expensive at all. syntaur.com

@@JoseAngelMorente Dosent tried, but i live in Russia, so... It's a alot of problems with both international shipping and buying here, tho. Was keeping an eye on a ebay lot with those keys here, but its unknown when i will order them, meaning the current complications now, tho. :/

​@@vjun007 oops... ordering at an US shop from Russia it is indeed a problem now (especially now...). Maybe you can find someone who make the order from the EU and resend it to you? It would be probably easier than ordering by yourself.

@@JoseAngelMorente Hm... If i could do a proxy trough someone here, i could get it from ebay, of course not for free, tho. But... -sigh-

@@vjun007 send me an email msxjam@gmail.com and maybe we can arrange something... I have just checked that Synthtaur have stock of SY35 keys currently.

It can be controlled with a remote MIDI controller but only some parameters can be modified in real-time (vector X/Y, modulation wheel, pitch bend, etc.). It can also receive sysex data for the rest of parameters but the whole patch information must be transferred for each change, so it would be a bit slow for real-time control. If you want a nice AWM+FM synth with real-time control capabilities, look at the Yamaha SY-77. It's a beast capable of sounds similar to the SY-35 but much more complex and powerful.

Agree. I've owned all the K series (K1 II, K3m, K4, K5 and still have my beloved K5000S) as well as several SY models (still willing to get a TG77 though). They are fantastic synths that modern instrument makers should keep an eye on. A new MODX is a beast in terms of features and sound but... I think it still misses some of the magic of the good old SY-series sounding.

@@JoseAngelMorente I own a K5000s and its my favorite synth alongside my faithful EX5. I have some demos of it on my channel if you are interested. Thanks for uploading, cheers! 👍

Agree and the Yamaha V50. They are wonderful.

Charm and warmth and can do icy cold and metallic too when needed. They are so versatile and have that character and originality missing from modern synths. You do need to get stuck into editing and controllers to get the best from them though. I've got an SY55 and TG55, but would love an SY77! I could not stretch to affording one back in 1991.

@@JoseAngelMorente I've had a K1r since 1990 and love it; it's a problem solver too when trying to get a mix to glue together, and other modern synths are not helping. A guy called Nils Schneider was bored during lockdown in 2020 and created his own VSTi of his K1m, even blogged it all and desoldered the EPROMs to extract the sample data. End result was a fantastic Nil's K1v VST which is free to download and use. Has all the expansion cards built-in and sys exc data from a real K1 can be fed to it or vice versa. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cTqC_bP76K0.html . According to the developers blog page he plans to do a K4 VST, so hopefully that happens.

That sound can be achieved with virtually any software substractive or FM synthesizer. Try DEXED (which is free for Windows, Mac and iOS). Anyway, although software synths can reproduce any existing sound, sometimes they lack the character and core sound of those old hardware instruments. If you don't manage to get the sound by using software instruments, get a Yamaha TG-33. It's the desktop version of the SY-35 (same sound and effects but inside a small module).

@@JoseAngelMorente Or you can try to get a NI FM7/FM8 here. The first one, is abandonware nowadays, tho.

@@vjun007 Thank you for the recommendation. Didn’t know FM7 is freeware now. Where can it be download (by legal means). In any case, I have several hardware FM synths that I prefer over software since I am essentially a live musician who don’t like to bring the computer to the stage.

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@@DadoSimicStudiostriver bought some DIN MIDI wires this week, hope i can hope it in my audigy2 plat. pro here, its ext. box have those old-timers hrre, but idk how fl studio will react on all this here.😀 Once again, heven sounds here, and i will be regretting forever for not abling to play anymore like that here, im have partially atrophied hands here, they wont listen to me well anymore...😢😭😭😭😭

I already sold it but I'm selling a SY22 too. Where are you based?

José Ángel Morente i am in Tucson az

Kevin Gamache I’m in Europe... Shipping from here would be too expensive :(

José Ángel Morente oh well my luck. Great vid and i will have one eventually.

@@kevingamache1512 BTW are you a Jojo's friend? (bad Beatles joke)

Dado Simic yes they are.

Su función es la de un sintetizador, principalmente, es decir, crear sonidos nuevos más que imitar a sonidos naturales. Para un buen sonido de piano es mucho mejor usar un instrumento orientado a esa finalidad.

En realidad depende mucho de quién los toque.

No, los teclados de tipo profesional no tienen altavoces; esa característica es exclusiva de teclados domésticos para aficionados.

The SY35 night and day

Aún está en venta

Ya lo vendí, sorry.

Give it a chance... it's a very underrated synth but still capable of amazing pads and cinematic atmospheres.

Just be sure the patch you are playing has some mapping from the aftertouch to some parameter (pitch, lfo, whatever…)

You can look in its manuals how to do it. I have all of them, tho.🙂

Sorry I don't own it anymore

No problem, 👍👍

Still want 2 buy it?

I'm condering selling my DX7-IIFD + arpegiattor/sequencer upgrade installed.

Lo estuvo

Get it! Even if you use it as a 5-octave MIDI controller with aftertouch only, it's a good deal.