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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.
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
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
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!
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.
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.
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
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.
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!
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'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.
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
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 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 !!!
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.
Yamaha should be watching this and make a SY999 for 2016 and get back to the FM with Waves with SPX2000 effects. Closest thing to this is in terms of functionality is Nord Wave but this sounds better. the digital filters, even today are fantastic and you have that amazing slightly glassy, grainy sound courtesy of the PCM56 DAC, also on the D50.
Get Syntronik instead... it has SY99 in it and many more synthesizers... I prefer Omnisphere =)) It has All of these legacy synthesizers in it... buying physical synthesizer is not a wise thing to do anymore... DAW is the way to go nowadays with midi controllers hooked up to it..
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
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.
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
@gridsleep are you sure? i am considering a k5000r but the demos on UA-cam doesn't convince me over the sy99 or even a well processed dx7iiFD, which I own
There are some beautiful digital sounds in there, I think they used some of the tones from these synths when they put together some of the expanded XG tone sets. I have an MU50 and certain sounds seem familiar.
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.
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
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 ...
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!
@@smoothstate actually, a GS-1 was used for "Take Me". In the Mint Jams days it was used even for live performances. The KXs controlling other stuff came later.
I wish it was bigger, with 88 weighted keys. I love weighted key actions. I trigger the SY77 and SY99 from the Roland A-80 weighted controller and the keyboard type of sounds really come to live. I love regular size, which is from 61-keys to 88-weighted keys. SY99 I consider a medium size keyboard.
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.
the guy's enthusiasm for this instrument is a beautiful thing. I've read people that consider a DX7 or DX7ii to look at this because it does FM + a whole lot more. Does this have the exact presets from those older DX7 boards?
There is software that will convert the DX sysex to SY format sysex. The sounds will be nearly the same as the DX7II. The DX7 has lower fidelity DA converters.
@@supertruckertom I have both SY99 and DX7IIFD but find the DX7 rawer more metallic whereas the SY99 is a little more tamed, gentler. For brass, bass, bells the DX7 to me is still the most rigid powerful animal.
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 .
By reading some of the comments down there I came to conclusion that every synth product in skillful hands of a conosseur can sound great. Even today I still have one piece of SY77, besides some newer engines, and it can reproduce tone collections made on/for SY99 available on the internet, still sounding great. But it is always up to an user how he will manage his musical conception. At the days of emerging SYs on the market worldwide, in Yamaha Corporation said it was the best engine they had ever produced. Even today is obvious what they had meant by that. Technical improvements followed, of course, and EX5 and MOTIFs were favourite synths among professional musicians, like MONTAGE today is, as well as some models of competing companies of Roland and Korg. I am devoted to Yamaha somehow, perhaps because of natural sounds they have always been able to create, although I owned Kawai, Roland and Casio too, and use Korg in school orchestra too, and all these instruments have few really exellent tones. Mr. Ujiie is really great demonstrator and player and he is a person of great experience exactly in era of the reachest advancement of electric musical instruments, which is unbeatable fact.
That man is a ninja with his fingers, what ever he plays sounds good. The problem I see is he is always playing his jazz and not actually showing what the keyboard can do.
He plays lots of jazz runs and chords, but he really does ARTICULATE every instrument very differently to highlight its strengths. This is Ujiie's strong point in that he has a natural feel (gift!) for ever design.
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 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
Haha! Thanks for the information, but that's way out of my budget these days. I bet you're enjoying it very much, though. Looks like a sweet pad! FM sound is my favorite, even more so than analog... if that makes any sense. :-) Take care.
Marcus I. I do enjoy it, but not as much as I would hope to. I'm very lazy and I haven't put in the time to learn to program it properly or learn all the functions. I will learn it all, eventually.
Whenever you get serious with making a full on track. you're in for a real treat. I'm a 4-OP junkie, and have been able to accomplish some crazy cool sounds with just that. Start with a melody from your head, and pack on the phat FM bass. Fun stuff buddy!
Super Yamaha ; SY - 99 ; New Model ; Lançamentos : new : 2022 ~ 2023 ; Mr : Katsunori : Toca Muito Bem !!! Demonstração !!! Ouvir Todos : Tons !!!: Efectos !!! ; Ritmos !!! ; Etc ; SY - 99 New Model ; 😄😀😄😀💡💡💡👍
最後のコメントで「今の形でFMとツマミがいっぱいで」ってMONTAGEそのものですがなｗ The last comment " It would be nice to heve modern version, with FM and sampling and much knobs", It's Montage itself.
iPad is very cheesy. I had bought an iPad because I wanted to try the Vogel CMI app. Nice app, but I can't take touchscreen interface. So I sold the iPad after like two months. It was waste of money. SY99 I bought second one, and I absolutely love it.
I have a question, my sy99 keyboard has cuts in the condo while I play in a note a note keeps playing and I just shut it up by changing, that happens with any sound please any solution for it?
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)
i'm currently looking for one. It will complete my collection of synths I grew up wanting but couldn't afford when I was younger. I want this board so bad!!!!!
![YAMAHA EX5 Demo & Review [English Captions]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/RYaj74agaIo/mqdefault.jpg)
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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.
I hear a hint of... Casiopea or T-Square 👀👀
高校生の頃、TMNが使用しているのを観ていて高嶺の花でした。そしてこちらの動画を拝見したのをキッカケに今日、購入しました！氏家さん、素晴らしい動画を公開して頂き有難うございます！！今思えば、この動画の最後で何気にMONTAGEの開発を予告していたのですね！
I love this man too much, the Bob Ross of synth reviews.
So true
There are no bad synths, only happy accidents
It is so enjoyable to see a synth demo with one one that can actually play very well and tasteful.
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 could listen to this dude play all day with no problem!
One of the best sounding synths EVER ! 25 years BEFORE montage.
Try EX5...
@@slobodanjankovic177 I have all three synths, SY77, EX5 and Montage.
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
@@snuppssynthchannel Whoa...awesome!
いやー、名機ですよねぇ。ヤマハらしく、図太くバリッとした音で、バンドの中でも存在感が抜群でした。プロのステージでも相当長期に亘って現役でしたものね。何度か演奏しましたが、ついに所有することはかないませんでした。欲しかったなぁ。今聴いても良い音ですよね。ヤマハの楽器は息が長い！
Every time you play a synth I haven't heard in a while, I want one. You make everything sound wonderful. Thank you for sharing your beautiful playing.
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!
Wish Yamaha saw it your way!
I'm watching just to hear you play. The synths are cool, too.
lol, ditto
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.
Dude the lows from this synth will blow woofers
English sub-title is available now ;)
are you synth jesus
psychoticgiraffe no, he is japanesu robert deniro
do a demo and review for KORG 01 W PRO X or the KORG 01 W FD PLEASE!!! PLEASE!!! PLEASE!!! MASTER YOU ARE A GENIUS!!!! DO IT PLEASE!!!
+Jim Jones you sir, are an idiot
No, it isnt’t :(
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.
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
透明感があり、煌びやかな音源ですね～♪
SY99は95年頃に新品で無理して買いました。その後金欠になりやむなく手放しましたが、77に比べて音の実在感とエフェクターの質が素晴らしかったです。AWM部分は依然として弱かったものの、0Hz/DC設定のオペレータをPCMで変調することで力強い音が出ました。
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.
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!
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 always think of Katusnori-san as being the composer of Mariya Takeuchi's Plastic Love back in the 80s. I want that Japan back.
Great demo of one of my favourite synthesizers !
Thank you very much Mr Katsunori UJIIE ;)
ありがとうございます氏家克典さん。
whoever translated and captioned... i love you
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.
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?
Andrew Piatek y
+姜世超 As I mentioned: aesthetics, expressiveness as musical instrument, keyboard feel, build quality, reliability, features, and sound quality.
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
wow man! Your playing is so good! And the sounds are so wondeful! I love those David Foster's and Dave & Don Grusin's style patches specially.
Sergio Garcia I grew up listening to GRP artists so in my eyes he is awesome..
SY 99も凄いけど
氏家さんはもっと凄い
このDNAが motif を経て
MONTAGE へと
カタチ スペックは変わっても
引き継がれているんですよね
素晴らしい としか言いようがない
Amazing synth and to this day also a big favorite of mine, thank you very much for playing and demonstrating the wonderful SY99!
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.
Thank you for your hard work on this synth Mr Ujiie
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 !!!
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.
Thanks to the subtitles I get to know a little about the man behind the music.
Great !
Yamaha should be watching this and make a SY999 for 2016 and get back to the FM with Waves with SPX2000 effects. Closest thing to this is in terms of functionality is Nord Wave but this sounds better. the digital filters, even today are fantastic and you have that amazing slightly glassy, grainy sound courtesy of the PCM56 DAC, also on the D50.
I own a D-50 and the Sy-77. Love them both.
Yamaha Montage?
Exactly what I thinked
Montage is the revival of theses days, by the way I own a FS1-R and people stayed away because of the ergonomy.
Fantastic combo !
Get Syntronik instead... it has SY99 in it and many more synthesizers... I prefer Omnisphere =)) It has All of these legacy synthesizers in it... buying physical synthesizer is not a wise thing to do anymore... DAW is the way to go nowadays with midi controllers hooked up to it..
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
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.
every year i seem to come back to this part of youtube...
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
2022 y sigue siendo alucinante
Mr Ujjie, you are really awesome. That song you recorded at around 19:00 was so smooth! ~sugoiii
You mean "smooth like 80's porn"? :-D
its hard to find a synth that sounds as good as a 99. i dont care what anyone says
Roland jd800 (owned both)
@gridsleep are you sure? i am considering a k5000r but the demos on UA-cam doesn't convince me over the sy99 or even a well processed dx7iiFD, which I own
@@longde I love my SY99 though it will still take me years to even scratch the surface of what it can do. O.O It never ceases to astound me.
There are some beautiful digital sounds in there, I think they used some of the tones from these synths when they put together some of the expanded XG tone sets. I have an MU50 and certain sounds seem familiar.
I prefer my SY22 with Vector synthesis, the SY22 is legend!
Thanks to SWC translations! Everything Ujiie does sounds amazing. He little drum programing was brilliant!
SY99また買い戻したいなぁ・・・
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.
バイトして中古を何とか手に入れたけれど当時ホントに高かったなぁ。KORGやRolandも持っていたけど、それでも自分はYAMAMAが慣れていたので当時YAMAHAばっかりさわっていた。後とても重たかった思い出ｗ ただ同時にKORGやRolandなど他のメーカーとマスターとスレーブで複数台で鳴らした時、曲調によってはどうしてもYAMAHAは上品すぎるんですよね。でもその中で９９は別格だと思ってました。事情があって手放したけど置いておけば良かったと今でも後悔してます、程度の良い物があれば買い戻したいです。
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
シカゴやデビッドフォスター、リチャードマークス、稲垣潤一、杉山清貴等の洗練されたAORを彷彿とさせる音源ですね。８０年代チックなところが良いです。
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 ...
Sounds awesome, I am considering to buy SY-99 in near future.
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!
Love the sequencing demo. Very smooth.
ok thanx for your comments
Amazing Electro Piano sound!
awesome synth, awesome demo, awesome player...just listen...
I just ordere me one from Germany. Can't wait till it's here. This thing is awesome....
大学の入学祝で買ってもらいました。当時42万円！大学時代にSY99で沢山の音楽を作りました。今聞いても良い音ですね。
I think this is the synth Casiopea is using. The electric piano is reminiscent of Casiopea song, "Take Me"
Casiopea used KX88 and KX76
@@smoothstate actually, a GS-1 was used for "Take Me". In the Mint Jams days it was used even for live performances. The KXs controlling other stuff came later.
Yeah...I could watch this for days. Mr Katsunori just go ahead an try all your favorite synths!
IF it had a panel full of knobs, it would be a dream come true. Love FM.
Yep. I would rather go for the DX reface. Much easier to edit.
James Reeno The SY77 is easy to edit when you learn yamahas system of operation.
YES! 15:40 that is the lead sound Dimension uses in some fantastic tunes, like "Yellow Sunshine".
ほんと、氏家のおっさん、こんだけなんでも弾けると、生きてて楽しいだろうなｗｗ一生に一度でもいいから、こんだけ自由にキーボードを弾いてみたいもんだマジｗ
EXCELENTE DEMO
15:09 この攻撃的なギター音たまんないよねー。
ディストーションエフェクト最大にしてKX5で弾くとたまんなく気持ちよかったなぁ・・・
SY99に興味あるのですが、私が見るタイミングの問題としてもデジマートとか中古市場で出てるのを見掛けた事が無いんです。手放す人が少ないと言う事でしょうから、ワン＆オンリーなマシンなんですね…
Katsunori you sent me back the sounds of a childhoog dream in the later 80's. Snif
20:40 Thank you for this very moment. I've always been looking for the synths of the Settlers IV soundtrack. Now I found at least one instrument!
I have no clue what he is saying but, the music is beautiful....love it. Very nice sounding synth.
Turn on the first caption.
My dream synth. Wish it wasn't so huge tho!
I wish it was bigger, with 88 weighted keys. I love weighted key actions. I trigger the SY77 and SY99 from the Roland A-80 weighted controller and the keyboard type of sounds really come to live. I love regular size, which is from 61-keys to 88-weighted keys. SY99 I consider a medium size keyboard.
21:34 oh my, this is top tier!
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.
氏家さん余計な事話さずにサッとプリセット弾いてくれるのがありがたい！
当たり前ですが、氏家さんクラスの腕前の人ならリアルタイムの打ち込みもミスタッチなしのクオンタイズなしの一発撮りで完成するんですね。これはもう一生勝てない
小田和正もYAMAHAのエレピよく使ってたなー。思い出すー。
The warm acoustic Piano sounds were the Hot when this synth came out…. shame it isn't heard in this demo.
Masterpiece AFM SYNTH, Thank you for Sharing !!
These keyboards were made like tanks to last many years, today is just plastic.
i had my sy77 shipped from england to canada back in the day and when it arrived the whole back was ripped off ..still worked like a dream though ;p
yes! this keybs are eternaly, with the 3 levels of mainboards, very weight, but like a Rock
the guy's enthusiasm for this instrument is a beautiful thing. I've read people that consider a DX7 or DX7ii to look at this because it does FM + a whole lot more. Does this have the exact presets from those older DX7 boards?
There is software that will convert the DX sysex to SY format sysex. The sounds will be nearly the same as the DX7II. The DX7 has lower fidelity DA converters.
@@supertruckertom I have both SY99 and DX7IIFD but find the DX7 rawer more metallic whereas the SY99 is a little more tamed, gentler. For brass, bass, bells the DX7 to me is still the most rigid powerful animal.
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 .
By reading some of the comments down there I came to conclusion that every synth product in skillful hands of a conosseur can sound great. Even today I still have one piece of SY77, besides some newer engines, and it can reproduce tone collections made on/for SY99 available on the internet, still sounding great. But it is always up to an user how he will manage his musical conception. At the days of emerging SYs on the market worldwide, in Yamaha Corporation said it was the best engine they had ever produced. Even today is obvious what they had meant by that. Technical improvements followed, of course, and EX5 and MOTIFs were favourite synths among professional musicians, like MONTAGE today is, as well as some models of competing companies of Roland and Korg. I am devoted to Yamaha somehow, perhaps because of natural sounds they have always been able to create, although I owned Kawai, Roland and Casio too, and use Korg in school orchestra too, and all these instruments have few really exellent tones. Mr. Ujiie is really great demonstrator and player and he is a person of great experience exactly in era of the reachest advancement of electric musical instruments, which is unbeatable fact.
That man is a ninja with his fingers, what ever he plays sounds good. The problem I see is he is always playing his jazz and not actually showing what the keyboard can do.
He plays lots of jazz runs and chords, but he really does ARTICULATE every instrument very differently to highlight its strengths. This is Ujiie's strong point in that he has a natural feel (gift!) for ever design.
It's not really Jazz though. Define "Jazz".
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It's 'jazzy' rather than all out 'jazz'.
Don't have time for intricate descriptions! You will have to Google the word!
F0nkyNinja Japanese westcoast influenced fusion.
さすがSY99。
定価４２万は伊達じゃなかった。。。
（2015.02.05 02:07 JST ）
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 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
One day I'll have my own SY99...
Oooohhh! Such a nice thick future sound there!... Whoa, 6 OPs! Nice horsepower. I think I'd like to have one someday too!
I got one! Got it cheap too, only 300 euros.
Haha! Thanks for the information, but that's way out of my budget these days. I bet you're enjoying it very much, though. Looks like a sweet pad! FM sound is my favorite, even more so than analog... if that makes any sense. :-) Take care.
Marcus I. I do enjoy it, but not as much as I would hope to. I'm very lazy and I haven't put in the time to learn to program it properly or learn all the functions. I will learn it all, eventually.
Whenever you get serious with making a full on track. you're in for a real treat. I'm a 4-OP junkie, and have been able to accomplish some crazy cool sounds with just that. Start with a melody from your head, and pack on the phat FM bass. Fun stuff buddy!
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最後のコメントで「今の形でFMとツマミがいっぱいで」ってMONTAGEそのものですがなｗ
The last comment " It would be nice to heve modern version, with FM and sampling and much knobs", It's Montage itself.
またFMの流れが来るんですかね？
At 23:15 he basically hinted at Yamaha to design the Montage.
...and they did. He has a lot of power within Yamaha.
A lot of the melodies sound like stuff I've heard in 90's anime like fushigi yugi or outlaw star
15:40... What a sound!!!
I need one of Theeeese!!
One of the best synth ever made by the Nippon
Oh! My Goddess (あっっ！女神さま) Background music right here.
遂に、中古格安SY99を店頭現金買いしました！
この動画のとおり、イイ音ですねえ。
これからじっくりと楽しみたいと思います。(^ｰ^)
引き換えにSY77は買い取ってもらいました。
i used to have a sy 77 back in the 90's, great synth
"used to"... Why not still have it and enjoy it? More fun than iPad, trust me.
+Andrew Piatek ipads are easier to edit.
iPad is very cheesy. I had bought an iPad because I wanted to try the Vogel CMI app. Nice app, but I can't take touchscreen interface. So I sold the iPad after like two months. It was waste of money. SY99 I bought second one, and I absolutely love it.
*Very nice sound ♪ ♩ ♫ ♪and presentation* Thank you! ツ
(3-20-2021) - The only thing with the SY-99 today is getting anything fixed. I need a DM2 Circuit Board, can't find one anywhere.
Send it to a vintage synth repair shop
I have a question, my sy99 keyboard has cuts in the condo while I play in a note a note keeps playing and I just shut it up by changing, that happens with any sound
please any solution for it?
Great machine!
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)
i'm currently looking for one. It will complete my collection of synths I grew up wanting but couldn't afford when I was younger. I want this board so bad!!!!!
I got one yesterday for 450$CAD ! Good luck finding one.
Awesome little groove at 4:40