@@alexandregermano4442 Thank you Alexandre and yes, a great instrument it surely is! Yamaha is currently celebrating their ‘50 years of synth’ anniversary. The SY series obviously included for all the good reasons. Enjoy playing your SY85. It’s hard to ever get tired of it! :-)
The SY85 was my first synth from 1993 at the cost of £1,000. I wanted a Korg X3 for that had sold in my local Dawsons music shop. I’ve still got it and played nearly every gig that o ever did on it. It’s such a fantastic “synth” as it’s basically a rompler, which I didn’t know at the time.
Thank you for your nice comment! Yes, quite some money back in the day. According to SOS Magazine, the retail price was GBP 1400,00 a year prior to when you bought it. The SY77 & SY99 were even more expensive. Yes, but I would say that at the time; sampled-based synthesis was the trend and as I have stated in the description, it's technical specifications were quite impressive. Lots of possibilities to modulate and create your own sounds and let's not underestimate how good of a compositional tool this was since it had such a wide range of sounds to use. Do you remember any favourite patches to noodle around with? I'm always curious since it has so many good sounds. Greetings from the Netherlands! -Devin
@@devingademanI can’t remember the exact names but the strings and orchestral ones were my absolute favs. At the time the grand piano was used a lot. The effects were absolutely awesome on this machine. I was trying to see if the DSP could be hacked to accept an input source and use it was an external effects.. never got anywhere with that idea. Another idea I have had for many years is about putting the boards in to a rack. I know the TG-5000 exists but I love my SY85 and would be awesome to have done something unique with it. It’s great how you picked up the way new sounds can be crafted on the SY85. I never really got any good at creating my own sounds but maybe I should revisit this as I’ve downloaded many patches in the past and they sounded great. Also got a few Yamaha sound disks too, every expensive at the time and sadly they relied a lot on samples and not voices that wouldn’t be lost when turning off the device. It’s great to see a SY85 being used in a recent video. I hope to see more..
@@chrispybee Yes, the strings and orchestral patches are great and yes; some of the piano patches are very useful. I have always liked AP Dance as a good alternative to the famous M1 piano sound as well as the performance patches where piano sounds were layered with strings & pad sounds (CO Dreams & CO Concert). That certainly would've been a cool idea. I read somewhere that the SY85 and 99 effects were similar, but not equivalent to those of an SPX900 multi fx processor. Great effects! I've seen that idea with Roland's D-70 & XP80. People removed the key-bed and turned it into - what can be considered to be - a big rack version of it (almost like a horizontal desktop type of thing). I personally like to keep things preserved in the way they are designed, but both the D-70 & XP80 suffered from the 'red glue' issue which is somewhat of a headache to fix properly. I'm thinking of what sound disks you're talking about. I have a a couple of - I think rather rare - floppy discs called: 'special promotion sound data disc' as well as the green & orange floppies (factory set & demonstration). I have to replace the belt drive (i'm certain it's the belt) sometime in the future since I haven't been able to try out these floppies. Now I just transfer patches using sysex which works very well on the SY85. On my website you'll find - I believe - 3 small articles related to the SY85 & TG500 (just in case you're interested). Many thanks and I'll be sure to try and post more SY85/TG500 related videos as well in the future. -Devin
Funny I recently acquired a korg n364 a 64 voice x3 basically with extras. And a tg500 which has double the polyphony of the 85 both for under £150 UK. Both instruments sounds gorgeous . Sometimes I loom at my jd990 and just shake my head 😂. Great luscious sounds btw .❤❤
@@AdamTheAd-vanc3dhow the heck did you manage to get those two for £150. I was looking for a TG500 but they are stupid money. I’m going to work on a project that I’ve been wanting to do for years. Convert my SY85 in to a desktop synth. Gonna design and 3D print a case and throw all the internals in to it..
Thank you very much for your comment! This particular string patch is one of my all time favourites and it blends very well into almost any mix! Greetings from Germany. -Devin
Thank you for your comment! Yes, both are excellent sampled-based synths from the 1990s. The XP/JV series are slightly superior in terms of specifications, but they also came out a later in that decade. Both are very good arrangement/composer tools and they both cover a very nice palette of all sorts of sounds. However, I do think that the SY85/TG500 have a slight more 'distinctive' sound to them. Something about the FX's & digital filters that seem to contribute to this. -DG
Add: I own the Roland XP-80. I might do a video with it . Unfortunately, it is cursed with the “red glue from hell” that I know how to fix, but obviously will take some time. I’ll be looking forward to it since those Roland key-beds are one of the very best and as much as I love playing the V-Synth (which has a similar keybed), I do sometimes miss that extra octave. I’ve even written a blog about it on my website. Greetings!
@@tonyscardaci2089 Thank you for your comment! 61 keys and 14kg. Not as heavy compared to its siblings; the Yamaha SY77 and the SY99. Yes, very nice sounding synth. Its AWM2 engine does a great job for various types of sounds!
@ Thank you very much and congratulations on your new synth! On my website you’ll find a few articles related to the SY85/TG500. I hope to do more videos with it sometime soon. -DG
I have this great instrument ! Good job!
@@alexandregermano4442 Thank you Alexandre and yes, a great instrument it surely is! Yamaha is currently celebrating their ‘50 years of synth’ anniversary. The SY series obviously included for all the good reasons. Enjoy playing your SY85. It’s hard to ever get tired of it! :-)
The SY85 was my first synth from 1993 at the cost of £1,000. I wanted a Korg X3 for that had sold in my local Dawsons music shop.
I’ve still got it and played nearly every gig that o ever did on it. It’s such a fantastic “synth” as it’s basically a rompler, which I didn’t know at the time.
Thank you for your nice comment! Yes, quite some money back in the day. According to SOS Magazine, the retail price was GBP 1400,00 a year prior to when you bought it. The SY77 & SY99 were even more expensive. Yes, but I would say that at the time; sampled-based synthesis was the trend and as I have stated in the description, it's technical specifications were quite impressive. Lots of possibilities to modulate and create your own sounds and let's not underestimate how good of a compositional tool this was since it had such a wide range of sounds to use. Do you remember any favourite patches to noodle around with? I'm always curious since it has so many good sounds. Greetings from the Netherlands! -Devin
@@devingademanI can’t remember the exact names but the strings and orchestral ones were my absolute favs. At the time the grand piano was used a lot.
The effects were absolutely awesome on this machine. I was trying to see if the DSP could be hacked to accept an input source and use it was an external effects.. never got anywhere with that idea.
Another idea I have had for many years is about putting the boards in to a rack. I know the TG-5000 exists but I love my SY85 and would be awesome to have done something unique with it.
It’s great how you picked up the way new sounds can be crafted on the SY85. I never really got any good at creating my own sounds but maybe I should revisit this as I’ve downloaded many patches in the past and they sounded great.
Also got a few Yamaha sound disks too, every expensive at the time and sadly they relied a lot on samples and not voices that wouldn’t be lost when turning off the device.
It’s great to see a SY85 being used in a recent video. I hope to see more..
@@chrispybee Yes, the strings and orchestral patches are great and yes; some of the piano patches are very useful. I have always liked AP Dance as a good alternative to the famous M1 piano sound as well as the performance patches where piano sounds were layered with strings & pad sounds (CO Dreams & CO Concert).
That certainly would've been a cool idea. I read somewhere that the SY85 and 99 effects were similar, but not equivalent to those of an SPX900 multi fx processor. Great effects!
I've seen that idea with Roland's D-70 & XP80. People removed the key-bed and turned it into - what can be considered to be - a big rack version of it (almost like a horizontal desktop type of thing). I personally like to keep things preserved in the way they are designed, but both the D-70 & XP80 suffered from the 'red glue' issue which is somewhat of a headache to fix properly.
I'm thinking of what sound disks you're talking about. I have a a couple of - I think rather rare - floppy discs called: 'special promotion sound data disc' as well as the green & orange floppies (factory set & demonstration). I have to replace the belt drive (i'm certain it's the belt) sometime in the future since I haven't been able to try out these floppies. Now I just transfer patches using sysex which works very well on the SY85.
On my website you'll find - I believe - 3 small articles related to the SY85 & TG500 (just in case you're interested).
Many thanks and I'll be sure to try and post more SY85/TG500 related videos as well in the future. -Devin
Funny I recently acquired a korg n364 a 64 voice x3 basically with extras.
And a tg500 which has double the polyphony of the 85 both for under £150 UK.
Both instruments sounds gorgeous . Sometimes I loom at my jd990 and just shake my head 😂.
Great luscious sounds btw .❤❤
@@AdamTheAd-vanc3dhow the heck did you manage to get those two for £150. I was looking for a TG500 but they are stupid money.
I’m going to work on a project that I’ve been wanting to do for years. Convert my SY85 in to a desktop synth.
Gonna design and 3D print a case and throw all the internals in to it..
Beautiful!
Thank you very much for your comment! This particular string patch is one of my all time favourites and it blends very well into almost any mix! Greetings from Germany. -Devin
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thank you!
Looks so much like the Roland XP-80
Thank you for your comment! Yes, both are excellent sampled-based synths from the 1990s. The XP/JV series are slightly superior in terms of specifications, but they also came out a later in that decade. Both are very good arrangement/composer tools and they both cover a very nice palette of all sorts of sounds. However, I do think that the SY85/TG500 have a slight more 'distinctive' sound to them. Something about the FX's & digital filters that seem to contribute to this. -DG
Add: I own the Roland XP-80. I might do a video with it . Unfortunately, it is cursed with the “red glue from hell” that I know how to fix, but obviously will take some time. I’ll be looking forward to it since those Roland key-beds are one of the very best and as much as I love playing the V-Synth (which has a similar keybed), I do sometimes miss that extra octave. I’ve even written a blog about it on my website. Greetings!
88 key case ? Is she heavy ? Nice sounds
@@tonyscardaci2089 Thank you for your comment! 61 keys and 14kg. Not as heavy compared to its siblings; the Yamaha SY77 and the SY99. Yes, very nice sounding synth. Its AWM2 engine does a great job for various types of sounds!
@ just reading this right this moment. Agreed to purchase off fb marketplace based off you video ! … so thank YOU !
@ Thank you very much and congratulations on your new synth! On my website you’ll find a few articles related to the SY85/TG500. I hope to do more videos with it sometime soon. -DG
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I thought it would make it more fantastic! 🫤