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I can definitely see that Mr. Ujiie is a Master of 80's Jazz fussion. His chords are very suspended and so satisfying to listen to. I really want to see a young and vibrant performance of you Sir back in the 80's.
Snupps Synth channel hello Snupps Synth. I’m interested in getting my first real hardware unit of FM Synthesis. Reading that you have many of the devices from the late 80’s till the Montage (which I believe was released in 2016), what would you recommend getting? Greetings
Ujiie-Sensei, your pride for your work on this beautiful unit shines through in this video. Your playing is masterful, and this video has planted a deep desire in me to acquire one of these synths when I have the means to do so. The sounds and capabilities are just so wonderful
I now own a montage, still nothing sounds quite like the SY77, one of the warmest and most unique sounding digital synths, a true beauty! Wouldn't never be replaced, not even by a beast such as the montage!
Thank you so much for taking the time to do a demo on the SY99 sir. Looking over some vintage synths currently and your demo's have helped to narrow down the choices.
I'm playing this in my car waiting on an appointment and wow the sounds and even deep bass/low notes the synth delivers are amazing just on my car stereo. Can't imagine how good this sounds through some good speakers.
this is one of my favorite videos on youtube. beautiful playing. Really interesting to see this being demonstrated by one of the original programmers. I have been playing some of the presets on my sy99. they are very rich nuanced sounds and very musical and natural to improvise with.
Even to this day I find the sounds of this synth as good as anything on the market. The difference with most synths today is more about features. And yes, things like woodwind, brass, string, and perc sounds are better on modern boards...but that is where VST sounds come in handy. But when it comes to keys, basses, synths, pads, ambient, and a lot more a good Yamaha SY99 will not disappoint. Give me this board, a Kurzweil K2000, Korg Wavestation, and an Ensoniq ASR 10 and you can do a lot with those boards - and save your computer CPU some processing strain.
You , Katsunori UJIIE , and this Yamaha SY 99 together are an amazing team and result to my ears : SO beautiful and pleasant ! I wanna have such a SY 99 very much ; I `m going to look after it ! Thank you for your superb demonstration jobs and Greetings from Baudouin out of Holland
Sir Katsunori UJJIIE you are a thorough GENTLEMAN of music. the way you play makes me get up from my chair and run to the nearest tutor who can teach me a thing or two about playing the keyboards. THANK YOU SO MUCH. LOVE FROM INDIA.
SY77/99 was the grand daddy of Montage series. The hardware user interface continues till this day... only few sliders were added to the left of the panel.. thats how you keep loyalty going..by keeping the learning curve gentle
I am also a big fan of the SY series, having several SY77, a couple TF77, a SY85 and a SY99. And you wishes became reality some years later with the YAMAHA MONTAGE !!!
I admire the way you deliver your presentations and I can see why Yamaha and you have a special relationship but can you do a review of the Yamaha VP1 please this rare synth deserves some exposure
I'd love to have the SY99, although I do have the SY55 and TG55 with all seven wave/data card sets, plus four MU100R modules with six different PLG100 / 150 expansion boards. These were the days when Yamaha were at their creative, inventive, classy, brilliant best! The EX5 was the last great keyboard Yamaha made.
A lot of sounds on this seem are reminiscent of the D-50 sounds. Especially the ones that use samples as attack part of the sound, and the FM engine for the sustain. That would actually make sense. Since FM engine is capable of far more expressive sounds than sample playback engine, it's good to use FM for that expressiveness and sample attacks to kind of emulate acoustic instruments sounds. It was nice to see in those days Yamaha and Roland sort of imitating each other and competing at the same time. I am sure both companies have a great amount of respect for each other. It showed in their products at that time. Korg kind of went their own way with the M-series, T-series and the Wavestation, which were great instruments in their own rights. Anyway, the 1987 through 1991 were very exciting times in electronic keyboards design.
Yamaha also owned a majority stake in Korg from 1987 to 1993 (for proof you only need to look at the keyboard of the M1, which is straight from a DX7), so it would make sense that they'd want to differentiate their products.
Finetales may I ask you a particular question about late 80’s/early nineties KORG synthesizers. It’s a little long and I will get back to it on my computer; trying to explain it in my best English. Greetings!
I still use it, though more as Master keyboard than synth, however some sounds are really awesome. I remember that in 1984 I wanted to buy the DX7, but at that time I couldn't afford it. Eight years later I bought this flagship synth, the SY99. I always wanted to create sounds from scratch, but after some time I gave up, because of the intrinsic complexities of FM sound generation. So I mostly changed a bit the preset sounds (sometimes just sounds processors) and saved in the internal bank, and from there to floppy. I used quite a lot of custom samples transferred with Sound Forge 3 for Windows 3.11, and I recall that I could transfer just 1 sample at a time, and just for this it took quite a long time. I love 76Stage, Classic and Vektar sounds. In Hapsichord you can hear the release of the string, really awesome at that time. IMHO the only weak sounds were the acoustic pianos.
After Roland released D-50, Yamaha strikes back with it's SY series, like this SY99. Many D-50 soundalikes can be heard in this synth. But Roland doesn't stay there, a few years later they answer with JD-800.
I have the SY-77 - totally incredible, beautiful and very organic sound if you know the programming well! But of course you can use LOTS of the free presets which could be find in the web. Sometimes I finding just a brilliance banks with fantastic sounds in it.
Hi, I'm Chick Corea and this is Yamaha SY99. I was 16 and could't belive such beauties can actually exist in this world like the SY99 or the Korg M1. I'd sell my organs to have one, at that time in Budapest. Good guys at the store let us use them for hours ...
I have an SY77 right next to my PC, turned on and running through a guitar amp set on DX-Famous (EP sample) I had to work on it last month, my solder gun couldn't desolder it, (it's that old)
ive got a korg n5 synthesizer fantastic instrument made back in the early 90s got it on ebay for $200 my second keyboard the best one ive ever had so far .
i thought maybe i wanted this real bad but i saw a video of a guy with an sy99 and a kronos and creating an identical patch. pretty cool. i think kronos might be one of the ultimate digitals
Sure, it's a 25 years instrument now. And it's only getting older. However, I must say that since my jaw totally dropped when I first saw the SY77 back in 1990 or so, I mean, I am still awed by both the SY77 and SY99. I don't believe they were big sellers, most likely due to their initial MSRP of $3,000 and $4,000 for SY77 and SY99, respectively. They really got it right with these. The features are mouth watering, the expresiveness as a musical instrument is outstanding, the build quality is solid, the keyboard feel is pleasant, the aesthetics are fantastic. I am getting so much pleasure and satisfaction playing these every time. Isn't that a measure of a great product? The one that not only wowed you when new, but growing on you over the years?
probably my favorite synth of all time. i now own both 77 and 99 and i agree with you completely. i love how complex they are. i have loved fm synthesis for many years as software but i will always be a student of the sy99. it is timeless and continues to blow me away. even the smallest changes of a couple parameters can have such drastic results. the amount sounds these can create is limitless
KUPHSER Well, objectively speaking, SY77 and SY99 are also software. And so was the D-50. In fact, Mr. Ikutaro Kakehashi revealed that 70% of D-50's development process was software. Is the D-50 a soft synth then? Yes, albeit in dedicated form factor. And that's what you don't get with a laptop or iPad, which by all intents and purposes don't look or feel any different than a 13 year old girl's device which she uses to go on Facebook or Instagram. Is that a progress?
Andrew Piatek what im saying is, before i got a dx7, sy77 and sy99, i was using fm8 (which i still love) but now since i mainly only use my yamahas for fm the interface is different and kind of more challenging. Sounds better aswell
I want to axe my Korg X2 to get an SY99. Its really difficult to get the X2 to sound usable. The SY99 is 90's as can be, but it actually sounds good and has character. The filters are nice too. One of the best digital filters I have heard on a board this age. The X2 sounds like somebody Duct taped an M1 to a D50 and ran it through a Xerox machine. The "filter" on it sounds like an FM feedback algorithm, and not a filter. It doesn't have portamento, the sequencer doesn't work, and patches are as easy to program as being stabbed in the neck. Only saving grace it has is the drum sounds.
i had a sy99,like it and had loads of sound disks for it but i always thought it sounded(how can i put it) false/shallow.i compared it to my dx5 soundwise and the sy99 was the one that got sold and i dont miss it atall tbh.v good tho
I am sure Motif is better and all, but it's still nice to have fully featured FM as it is on the SY77/SY99. And we are talking flagship Yamaha instrument here, which can be had today for ridiculously low prices. $400 for a working example, and $650 for a MINT unit. And the sound quality is very high on these machines, even by today's standards, the noise floor is practically non-existent. Far better quality than DX7/D-50, which are rather low-fi by today's standards, albeit having character hard to replicate with anything but the original.
Buenísimo!! Tengo dos Korg, el N364 y el X50, y me encantó volver a tener contacto (visual al menos jajaja) de estas bestias de Yamaha. Tanto el SY99 como su predecesor, el EX5, no tienen absolutamente nada que ver con los Korg y Roland; Yamaha tiene su propio encanto... varios de estos sonidos son muy VSTi y siguen siendo muy modernos. Lamentablemente aquí en Argentina la marca no tuvo la misma penetración y difusión que sí tuvieron Korg y Roland, lo cual es una pena, dado el tremendo poderío sonoro que Yamaha ostenta. Si vamos por tamaño y época, el Korg 01W Pro sería más o menos comparable al SY99, pero si vamos por la funcionalidad y sonido... tiene una onda más ochentosa. Incluso los pianos eléctricos tienen mucho más cuerpo que el clásico Dyno Piano del 01W... ventaja de la síntesis FM. El EX5 tiene otra tecnología que aún no fue igualada por otras marcas, salvo por los Korg Oasys y Kronos, pero el EX5 fue el que impulsó la tecnología de la síntesis híbrida múltiple, para mi opinión (el SY99 era híbrido con doble síntesis)... saludos!
I don't understand why they didn't put these sounds in the psr-s series... good thing you cam make ur own sounds and import them as aam expansiom pack so i made those dinamic EPS and drumkits for my self thru kontakt on my psr-s770
I was just listening to some tunes from Amy Grant's Heart in Motion LP. It predates this synth model by a year, but can anyone here confirm if an SY77 or 22 was used? I'm also hearing what sounds like Yamaha samples on Madonna's I'm Breathless album from the same year.
Tengo un SY-77 y simplemente the best Electric Pianos, Rhodes, Pads en pleno 2015 y la calidad del teclado, es un verdadero sintetizador de lo mejor de Yamaha
complemente de acuerdo contigo....hasta el tiempo de hoy,2016, los mejores sonidos en cuanto pianos electricos son los de DX7 DX7 II, yamaha TX816, y roland MKS20
Perhaps someone in here can help me figure it out how to move the octave in the SY77, noticed it doesn't have the OCTAVE section buttons to move from low tone pitch notes to be able to travel to the high pitch notes on the keyboard......thanks in advance.
Thank you for this video.If you allow me to ask a question outside the context of this video about SY99.for example if it can be used as a midi controller for the DAW studio, because I can not find the octave transport function or note shift.On the site the utility is ,but works only for internal sounds and not for MIDI OUT Please if you have time to explain to me because I just put SY99 in the studio and I can not work as I really need transpose and octave.Excuse me for my bad english
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