Robert Skerjanc
Robert Skerjanc
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Explaining the Concept of the Yamaha VL1 Expert Controller
00:00 Introduction
00:52 Overview Front Panel
02:06 Driver and Key Scaling
03:26 Pipe Group
04:31 Effects Group
04:50 Control Group
05:16 Global Group
06:15 MIDI Looper
07:32 Poly Chaining two VL1s
08:03 Morphing
For more information see: vl1.skerjanc.de
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Відео

Expert Controller for the Yamaha VL1 Synthesizer
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Demonstration of the hardware prototype. It can edit the complete physical model of the VL1. Musically not much enlightening, but showing some first impressions. See also my home page: vl1.skerjanc.de/?p=23
New Voices for the Yamaha FS1R
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Demonstration of my Sound Set for the Yamaha FS1R, containing 117 new Voices and 86 Performances using some of these voices. If you are interested in the purchase, contact robert@skerjanc.de
Louis Vierne: Pastorale On Waldorf Iridium Keyboard & Poly Aftertouch
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A try to use polyphonic aftertouch on a classical piece.
Louis Vierne: Rêverie on Schmidt Synthesizer
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A romantic piece composed for the pipe or reed organ. For dynamics I used aftertouch (vibrato) and two foot pedals to control volume and timbre.
What is better than a Yamaha FS1r with a HW Controller?
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Answer: 2 FS1r with 2 HW controllers... Testing session of another device before sending it to a friend.
Schmidt Synthesizer: Elfenlied
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A wonderful anime song on an expressive synthesizer.
Yamaha FS1R Unleashed
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A small session controlling the FS1r Synthesizer live with a custom hardware controller. More details about this device available at the German online-magazine www.amazona.de/mega-hardware-controller-fuer-yamaha-fs1r/
Mungo State Zero Synthesizer: Drone
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A short clip demonstrating the polyphonic Mungo State Zero. It is an 8-voice digital synthesizer, patchable by 3,5mm patch cords. Total recall with 100 patch memory. Unfortunately only 5 or 6 were build ever. In this first example, only 5 oscillators were used.

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @marcbrasse747
    @marcbrasse747 17 днів тому

    🫠

  • @Phileosophos
    @Phileosophos Місяць тому

    Wow! What a great controller you've built! Thanks for sharing.

  • @soundonsoundxtudio
    @soundonsoundxtudio 2 місяці тому

    Hi! Thank you for this demo. Is this editor capable to manage all the VL1 parameters like the advanced Yamaha editor on old Mac?

    • @rts213
      @rts213 2 місяці тому

      Sure, everything Yamaha‘s Expert Editor could do. And a bit more…

    • @soundonsoundxtudio
      @soundonsoundxtudio 2 місяці тому

      @@rts213​​⁠wow! Great! Because to buy an old Mac, installing an obsolete OS and a retro software is not easy and safe. Your solutions seems a lot better. Is it a commercial product? I’ve seen a white prototype on the VL Facebook page and this black face. Thank you!

  • @baddriddimworkshop
    @baddriddimworkshop 2 місяці тому

    Really nice, i own a syclavier regen, and your sounds are all in the palet of the synclavier 2 (fm+additive) engine inside, with it's own personality but still... Really nice fm work...

  • @stevenyjtsai
    @stevenyjtsai 2 місяці тому

    how to make this control console?

  • @danl9407
    @danl9407 3 місяці тому

    Can you explain how can you play 4 voice polyphonic?! I did not get that! Is it by using 2 voice x 2 elements each?! Please explain…

    • @rts213
      @rts213 3 місяці тому

      I am using a 2nd VL1 and the controller automatically sets up the Polyexpand parameters.

  • @brucebennett5338
    @brucebennett5338 4 місяці тому

    I want that module with that controller! <sigh>

  • @brucebennett5338
    @brucebennett5338 4 місяці тому

    Do I really want hat synth with that controller? Why yes, yes I do.

  • @joaopinho754
    @joaopinho754 4 місяці тому

    beautiful music, beautiful synth

  • @morespaces9061
    @morespaces9061 5 місяців тому

    Hi Robert! Great, how much is the controller? And where to get one?

  • @burmansound
    @burmansound 5 місяців тому

    Definitely would love one of these! I'm an electrical engineer and would love to help you build more of them.

  • @silverlight2004db
    @silverlight2004db 6 місяців тому

    Thank you! Very much enjoyed seeing and hearing your Fs1r and controller in action, truly amazing controller and nice sounds and playing/presentation

  • @johanalpmar8135
    @johanalpmar8135 7 місяців тому

    Could this be paired with the EX5 and used for it’s VL-section (in a more limited fashion)?

  • @CleanConnections
    @CleanConnections 7 місяців тому

    love one, but think I’m sticking to the wavestate iPad app & my trusty alesis micron for now & will just pray they make a monomachine mkii one day 🙏

  • @CleanConnections
    @CleanConnections 7 місяців тому

    With fm been hip again prices have gone crazy £1750! Saw one last month for 950 but just didn’t have the cash, and I’m still that’s still a lot more than they used to go for. Anyone know how much they cost on release date?

  • @renatoinmotion
    @renatoinmotion 9 місяців тому

    What a great controller, I would say essential for any serious VL synthetist. Kudos!

  • @exdeecee
    @exdeecee 9 місяців тому

    Robert - a fantastic video for an instrument you have brought to life!

  • @boptillyouflop
    @boptillyouflop 9 місяців тому

    This is so cool! How did you build the enclosure? It looks so good!

    • @rts213
      @rts213 9 місяців тому

      The front panel and casing is made with a CNC machine.

  • @thehimer3903
    @thehimer3903 9 місяців тому

    Solid...

  • @deatonchrisanthonyyy
    @deatonchrisanthonyyy 9 місяців тому

    Amazing

  • @UberOcelot
    @UberOcelot 9 місяців тому

    Yamaha lost something when they abandoned their analog history, some of these legacy synths really just sing in a way that even a Montage can't.

  • @InFamousProductions
    @InFamousProductions 9 місяців тому

    I would buy that in a second

  • @ecdysview
    @ecdysview 9 місяців тому

    FS1r, like a ghost haunting the planet searching for a human that will give it a soul...

  • @votekmendo6485
    @votekmendo6485 9 місяців тому

    MOre please as there is so few video of this synth

  • @josephwright5921
    @josephwright5921 11 місяців тому

    How many of these controllers were made?

  • @josephwright5921
    @josephwright5921 11 місяців тому

    I can imagine that Vangelis would have loved the FS1R paired with this controller. It can make some very odd, yet musical sounds at the time. The problem with a lot of people who have Eurorack units is that they use the units to go, “Screeeetch! Blatt! Karang!” They don’t arrange their noises into anything resembling a song that goes anywhere.

  • @donjezza
    @donjezza 11 місяців тому

    Very cool

  • @Zaccyonline
    @Zaccyonline 11 місяців тому

    Dear God plz sell me one of these controllers 😭

  • @山田喜康
    @山田喜康 Рік тому

    FS1Rは、階層がとても深く、1つ1つをコントロールするのは、複雑怪奇で至難の業。それを直感的にコントロールできるのは、とても素晴らしいです。「サウンドダイバー」とゆうソフトウェアでコントロールしてますが、何をどの様にコントロールし終わってるのか、分からなくなることもしばしば。このハードウェアなら、直ぐに確認が出来る。

  • @jojojo7333
    @jojojo7333 Рік тому

    SY77 below

  • @jairkerker2821
    @jairkerker2821 Рік тому

    The only thing more desolate than these sounds is the mental picture of a man who learns how to operate a Yamaha FS1R.

  • @videosuperhighway7655
    @videosuperhighway7655 Рік тому

    I remember when those things where being sold at guitar center new in Box for 480 dollars lol😂

  • @upkarthakur7666
    @upkarthakur7666 Рік тому

    Hey i have an FS1R . But there's a problem the sounds are not working on it. Need ur help on this. The demo is playing good. Midi signal is also there just sound is coming like in percussive. If i play upright paino it sounds like bass.. what's the issue... Please need ur help give me email so that i can ask u abt this.

  • @upkarthakur7666
    @upkarthakur7666 Рік тому

    Hey i have an FS1R . But there's a problem the sounds are not working on it. Need ur help on this. The demo is playing good. Midi signal is also there just sound is coming like in percussive. If i play upright paino it sounds like bass.. what's the issue... Please need ur help give me email so that i can ask u abt this.

    • @josephwright5921
      @josephwright5921 11 місяців тому

      Try reaching out to Yamaha or the synth guys who repair synths out of Texas.

  • @killswitchmediastudios
    @killswitchmediastudios Рік тому

    Not impressed. Not even by the FS1R. Boring.

    • @josephwright5921
      @josephwright5921 11 місяців тому

      It’s an FM and Formant synth with an analog filter. It does a certain family of sounds.

    • @EgoShredder
      @EgoShredder 6 місяців тому

      It's not about being impressive, its about can you use it to make something musical and expressive? FM synthesis has proven itself to be well up to that task, and the FS1R is one of the best implementations of FM.

    • @dachiklangmusik
      @dachiklangmusik 5 місяців тому

      Haha.. love your sarcasm.. ❤FM 4ever

  • @annother3350
    @annother3350 Рік тому

    So jealous of the controller!

  • @andrewnicholasgeorglovgren

    Amazing. Will the final version have power and midi on the back? Would love to rack in my case with no space above…

    • @rts213
      @rts213 Рік тому

      Yes, they will be on the back side.

  • @desktorp
    @desktorp Рік тому

    The metal panel with 7-segment displays is such a perfect aesthetic.

    • @TheIldebrandoz
      @TheIldebrandoz 7 місяців тому

      At the bottom left there is also a descriptive panel of the various algorithms that can be implemented

  • @alphabeets
    @alphabeets Рік тому

    Interesting project, but you can manipulate all the parameters with full graphical interface with a $20 old Mac SE, an old $10 serial MIDI interface, and the $0 free Yamaha VL1 Expert Editor. And the Expert Editor can even two-way interact and automatically tune the models…

    • @rts213
      @rts213 Рік тому

      Sure, if you are a happy owner of a functional macintosh and a $10 MIDI interface. But having real knobs to put hands on, is a totally different story. Years ago I wrote the VL1 adaptation for Sound Diver. And I found it totally uninspiring. Within weeks, I made more interesting patches with the HW controller than all years before.

  • @dachiklangmusik
    @dachiklangmusik Рік тому

    Die velocity bei 14:45 ❤ traumhafter patch 🙌.. Taste mich immer noch voran bei meinem Skerjanc Controller 😊.. endless.. Lg

  • @dachiklangmusik
    @dachiklangmusik Рік тому

    Die 🎚️ fader sind Hammer 👌

  • @buroam4527
    @buroam4527 Рік тому

    i would like to have a fs1r programmer with this form-factor…

    • @rts213
      @rts213 Рік тому

      Good idea, possibly my next project? :-)

  • @danl9407
    @danl9407 Рік тому

    Finally… the hardware programmer that no one dared to make until now…

  • @thehimer3903
    @thehimer3903 Рік тому

    Wow...great machines there. if only the VL1 wasnt that rare...

  • @silverlight2004db
    @silverlight2004db Рік тому

    This is amazing! The VL1m moved up my wishlist now!

  • @PrismaticSpray
    @PrismaticSpray Рік тому

    w...t...fuuuuuuuuuuuu

  • @CS-dp1ss
    @CS-dp1ss Рік тому

    Wir wissen doch alle: Synthesizer sind diese kalt klingenden, emotionslosen Maschinen, die von Knöpfchendrückern bedient werden. Also kann es dieses Video gar nicht geben. Grandiose Aufführung. Faszinierend, wie mühelos der Schmidt Synthesizer dabei von analoger Rundheit zu digital anmutender Schärfe geführt werden kann. Ich bin auch vollkommen von der Yamaha-Modul-Demonstration begeistert. Der Mix von FM- und Format-Synthese ist offenbar wie geschaffen für abstrakte Klänge, die abseits von Klischee-Klängen liegen.

  • @josephwright5921
    @josephwright5921 Рік тому

    Did you loan this to Yamaha for their recent demo of the FS1R?

  • @thehimer3903
    @thehimer3903 Рік тому

    simply outstanding!!

  • @josephwright5921
    @josephwright5921 Рік тому

    If I won the lottery, I would buy the controller for a pile of cash, but I guess it is just unobtainable right now.