Great Synth, I picked mine up last year with a missing floppy, dead battery and no sounds. Modded it to run a standard PC drive, changed the battery and it runs fine now. Definitely the best of the 4-op FM synths.
Its gonna be my 10th synth. I'm bidding for it now on EBAY. I didnt realize until recently it's basically a DX11 with an 8 track sequencer and drums/effects. That's POWERFUL. I've got some killer sounds in my DX11. Especially MOOG STYLE BASS. And an 808 drum kit. I cant wait to be able to bring them to life. And creates 80s style electro FUNK.
@@fender1000100I’ll be getting one tomorrow! I’ve been having fun with a DX21 I bought a few months ago and just recently discovered the V50. I’m going to enjoy sequencing that bad boy! 8 track sequencer, different waveforms and built in effects?? This thing is a beast! I’m trying to figure out how I didn’t know of it sooner.
Absolutely is. My friend has one and he has done covers of BILLIE JEAN AND RHYTHM IS A DANCER and CROCKETTS THEME. Just using his own DRUM AND SYNTH creations..that had people going WTF. I need to get him to upload them on here. GAMECHANGER is the word. Alot of people would be after this synth once they hear them. Alot. And since you can only really get this synth from Japan on Ebay these days. There will be alot of happy Japanese..Then the PRICE would rise. Its VERY POWERFUL in the right hands. Can produce bass that will rattle a set of speakers to the core. And can produce an 808 DRUM KIT. It's incredible in the RIGHT HANDS.
I bought it in a pawnshop for ¥5000 around 35 bucks is working perfectly but can’t find these sound maybe an internal battery is dead or need floppy disk with sounds banks i have no idea
Great video (8 years ago) thank you. Are there no simple piano or grand piano sounds? Or did l just tap past it? I heard one good organ, and a Hammond sound, was that it?
the predecessor of yamaha SY77 which came almost immediately after this leaving with almost no time for the V50 to even make a presence, had it been an year earlier, it would have made it to a mini legend status
The SY77 leaves the V50 for dead in every way except that you can only have 1 song in the SY77 sequencer at one time. The V50 allows up to 8 songs and it also has the drum machine with all those heavily compressed drum sounds.
Only FM, but unlike the DX series you have eight different operator waveforms to choose from. You can use the traditional sine waves, but you don’t have to. The V50 also has effects and, IIRC, a sequencer. The SY77 and SY99 went back to six-op, this time with 16 different operator waveforms to choose from, as well as a small bank of samples (AWM) and the ability to use samples and FM voices to cross-modulate each other. I have an SY77 and some of the sounds are otherworldly.
Tiene algunos sonidos del teclado Yamaha SHS10 tipo keytar, yo tuve ese pequeño teclado, todo un mounstruo a la hora de tocar en vivo. Un muy bello instrumento.
Hello there. I'm getting in touch with you because I can't get my keyboard Yamaha V50 started... Although I've just bought the USB Midisport Uno Interface and did install the driver correctly. Unfortunately, no sound would come out of it! Is there some program missing in the process? I've check everything in my OS and Nothing seems to be wrong either. Can someone help me out because it's getting real frustrating not being able to enjoy this keyboard... many thanks for your feedback! Cheers
FD probably works except the rubber bands disintergrate. Can be hard to find I hear. I've bought a USB mod kit for my Korg X3 and you can possibly do the same for yours. USB allows access to folders, each the same size as a FDD.
Yeah just after the DX7 this came out & I sadly bought it because it had a workstation capability.I should have bought a DX7 instead. Still got it stashed away & I have no idea where the disks got to.
Actually this is the best thing Yamaha ever put out there. You have to know what ITS REALLY capable of. It's basically a DX11/TX81Z X 2 with a sequencer and effects. Drum sounds. Now I own a DX11. And it can produce some amazing sounds. And is alot easier to program than a DX7 with I also owned. And it can sound as warm and fat as an analogue synth aswell as having that digital sparkle. The presets never really do these synths justice. It's when you go into the parameters you see the real magic. I have created an 808 drum KIT in my internal user patches. And some bass patches that rival a mini moog. And make my speakers earn their keep. It's a great electro funk/pop machine. My friend has the V50. And he did covers of BILLIE JEAN and RHYTHM IS A DANCER using ONLY his own custom drum and synth sounds. I think if he were to upload them to youtube. It would wake alot of people up. To how AWESOME this keyboard really is IN THE RIGHT HANDS. And having the 9 track sequencer means ideas can be layed down FAST. No this was actually the last and BEST keyboard Yamaha put out there. From the SY series onwards they slipped. As a total FM music maker. This is a masterpiece. No SAMPLES. Just second generation 4op FM POWER and beauty. I'm gonna see if I can get him to upload those two songs. Once people hear them. That would be the GAME CHANGER for this amazing synth. Just like the dude that uploaded Robert Miles Children. Done just using a ROLAND MC303. And had people calling him a liar. No way was that done on a Roland MC303. Because they lacked the skill and imagination themselves when they owned the MC303. To see what it was really capable of. They couldnt believe what they were hearing from someone who did. Like I said put a synth like this in the RIGHT HANDS. And you will see its TRUE POWER.
I have the chance of buying this synth.. but many samples sound much alike to mine in the old YS200 digital synth, I need good "old fashioned" pads, synth strings, electric pianos, and pianos like M1 very metallic.. I bought recently a Kurzweil SP4-8 so, orquestra.. I have plenty.. so, needing for PADS and SYNTHY STRINGS or so.. DO you people think.. it would be worthy to get ride of the YS200 and grab this nice V50? Thank you very much for the comments...
***** Txs! For sure I'd prefer the Sy77/99 but are much heavier and cost here in Perú around 500bucks! In the other hand this v50 is lighter and in 280 bucks and barely used.. it would be nice to get a Anx1 blue..but is not a common synth to find here down..thank you very much.
+miguel rejas The V-50 has exactly the same sound engine as the YS200 so it wouldn't help you a lot. However you can edit the FM-Sounds in the V-50 to the very detail just like the DX11, whereas the YS-200 only had quick edit. But FM-editing is complicated anyways. So exchanging the YS-200 by V-50 might be worth it but adding rather not. Your sound needs could also be achieved by Roland JV-Synths of the 90s such as the JV-80 or XP-30/50 maybe they are cheaper over there than the M1.
+Miguel REJAS MANRIQUE Hello Miguel! It's great to see that there still are lots of V50 users out here! I've been given recently a V50 from my niece. The machine is still in very good condition and since I've always loved to learn music. It's a good way to start IMO. However, I've got a small problem with the settings. When I press a key note, the sound comes out nicely but there's a "boom" in the background! Very annoying to say the least... Regardless the instrument which's been selected. I've tried to figure out and fix the issue but to be honest. I couldn't understand a damn thing reading the manual's user. I've also contacted the support dept of Yamaha France. But those guys keep on directing me to their dealers... Assuming it’s a technical issue. Which is clearly not!!! The keyboard works just fine though. Can anyone help me out? Your feedback will be more than welcome!!! Cheers from Paris ;-)
+Paulo Carlotti salut de France , t'on V50 n'aurait t"il pas un problème de batterie interne , y a t'il des icone en forme de dollars à l’allumage !? a tu tous les performance ( 100 au total et tous les single ( 100 au total ) . fait lui une procédure reset ...( 1) Mettre sous tension. CONSEIL: Tous les boutons doit rester déprimé et être pressé dans l'ordre mentionné à l'étape n ° 2 pour une exécution correcte. 2) Appuyez et maintenez enfoncé le bouton [SEQ], puis sur le bouton [CARTE] (situé à côté du bouton de démonstration), puis sur le bouton [DEMO]. 3) Maintenez les touches enfoncées jusqu'à ce que la boîte de dialogue apparaît à l'écran. L'affichage d'abord indiquer le programme V50 de test et Main Rom Version puis affichera automatiquement la question: «test manuel d'entrée ' 4) Appuyez sur la touche [DEMO]. L'écran affiche: «Factory Set? 5) Appuyez sur la touche [+ 1 / YES]. 'OK' apparaîtra sous la «Factory Set? lecture, indiquant la fin de la réinitialisation, et le V50 revient automatiquement en mode de jeu....
Great Synth, I picked mine up last year with a missing floppy, dead battery and no sounds. Modded it to run a standard PC drive, changed the battery and it runs fine now. Definitely the best of the 4-op FM synths.
What outputs are being used in the video?
Hey how can i load the presets with out the original floppy disc It is posible by midi¿
@@momentospararelajarse If you perform the factory reset option in the menu's you get them back from the internal rom :)
I am a lucky owner of this Synth!! I will never miss it!! Old, but good! Your demonstration is one of the best here on UA-cam! ;-)
I have one on the way from Japan. I will feature it on my channel from April. Real excited. It's the FM dream machine.
OMG, this was my first Synth...27 years ago.
Its gonna be my 10th synth. I'm bidding for it now on EBAY. I didnt realize until recently it's basically a DX11 with an 8 track sequencer and drums/effects. That's POWERFUL.
I've got some killer sounds in my DX11. Especially MOOG STYLE BASS. And an 808 drum kit. I cant wait to be able to bring them to life. And creates 80s style electro FUNK.
It was my first 'professional' synth back in 1992!
It's basically My first keyboard in 2021. LOL
I used to be a drummer.
It mean that you were rich , Keyboard with Floppy disc was something at that time
@@fender1000100I’ll be getting one tomorrow! I’ve been having fun with a DX21 I bought a few months ago and just recently discovered the V50. I’m going to enjoy sequencing that bad boy! 8 track sequencer, different waveforms and built in effects?? This thing is a beast! I’m trying to figure out how I didn’t know of it sooner.
Yamaha does make the best keybed, even Korg uses Yamaha keybeds( I used to think Korg used their own until I opened one up)
That my first synth is great same as 30 years ago ❤❤❤
That was such a nice demo ! Seems like an awesome underrated synth !
Absolutely is. My friend has one and he has done covers of BILLIE JEAN AND RHYTHM IS A DANCER and CROCKETTS THEME. Just using his own DRUM AND SYNTH creations..that had people going WTF. I need to get him to upload them on here. GAMECHANGER is the word. Alot of people would be after this synth once they hear them. Alot. And since you can only really get this synth from Japan on Ebay these days. There will be alot of happy Japanese..Then the PRICE would rise. Its VERY POWERFUL in the right hands. Can produce bass that will rattle a set of speakers to the core. And can produce an 808 DRUM KIT. It's incredible in the RIGHT HANDS.
@@fender1000100 id love to hear the demos! I had a V50 back in 92, loved it!
@@fender1000100 get him on here Bro!
I bought it in a pawnshop for ¥5000 around 35 bucks is working perfectly but can’t find these sound maybe an internal battery is dead or need floppy disk with sounds banks i have no idea
I had one of this, a W50 & a EX5. I would say this is one of worst I used and EX5 is one of the best till this day.
sounds warm and detailed , better in a simple way to todays digitals
Great video (8 years ago) thank you. Are there no simple piano or grand piano sounds? Or did l just tap past it? I heard one good organ, and a Hammond sound, was that it?
the predecessor of yamaha SY77 which came almost immediately after this leaving with almost no time for the V50 to even make a presence, had it been an year earlier, it would have made it to a mini legend status
V50…持ってたなあ
当時15,6万円でしたね
親にねだって買ってもらって
嬉しくて毎日触ってました
メルカリで1000円で購入しますぃたー
僕も持ってたです。27年前にV-50が僕の一番目の買ったシンセサイザーのでした; ;
🤠✌🏻CLASSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!🤠✌🏻
If these are not the sounds used in gaia by blank Banshee i am deaf. Gorgeous sounds.
My first synth in 2019, I remember when I was on ebay and I had to make a decision between the V50 or an SY77, I chose the V50.
You have chose badly!
The 77 is a different league to this.
Wow. Talk about bad luck.
The SY77 leaves the V50 for dead in every way except that you can only have 1 song in the SY77 sequencer at one time. The V50 allows up to 8 songs and it also has the drum machine with all those heavily compressed drum sounds.
Sy77 is more expensive V50 is cheaper
Pretty good sounds, I'm curious if this was really just FM, if so are there any samples in it?
Only FM
Only FM, but unlike the DX series you have eight different operator waveforms to choose from. You can use the traditional sine waves, but you don’t have to. The V50 also has effects and, IIRC, a sequencer.
The SY77 and SY99 went back to six-op, this time with 16 different operator waveforms to choose from, as well as a small bank of samples (AWM) and the ability to use samples and FM voices to cross-modulate each other. I have an SY77 and some of the sounds are otherworldly.
@@MatthewChristianMurray plus the sy series has filters in them
Tiene algunos sonidos del teclado Yamaha SHS10 tipo keytar, yo tuve ese pequeño teclado, todo un mounstruo a la hora de tocar en vivo. Un muy bello instrumento.
the violin patch sounds like the one heard in Super mario world.
The Best is the dx7 piano voice on it's menu....
I have the sampled uvi version
Every preset sounds 1000 times better w reverb
Hello there. I'm getting in touch with you because I can't get my keyboard Yamaha V50 started... Although I've just bought the USB Midisport Uno Interface and did install the driver correctly. Unfortunately, no sound would come out of it! Is there some program missing in the process? I've check everything in my OS and Nothing seems to be wrong either. Can someone help me out because it's getting real frustrating not being able to enjoy this keyboard... many thanks for your feedback! Cheers
I’m a pianist but a beginner for keyboard. Can you kindly teach me how to separate two sounds at different bars please?
I have my own this but i'll trade it because its too heavy for me to bought this synth to our church.
Have you still have it?
Fm synthesis in a church? Isn’t that a bit demonic ?
@@rightside not if you stick to sine waves for all oscillators.
@@Humanimal47 😂
Do you need the floppy disk to work in order to play this Synth?Got one for sale but not sure of the floppy disk work. Thanks
FD probably works except the rubber bands disintergrate. Can be hard to find I hear.
I've bought a USB mod kit for my Korg X3 and you can possibly do the same for yours. USB allows access to folders, each the same size as a FDD.
ya tengo el mio....!
patch 1 and 2 are the same, just transposed up...
Like in the 99% of synths, low/hi strings e.g. on many many Roland synths
To me this is when Yamaha went to sleep during the late 80s
Yeah just after the DX7 this came out & I sadly bought it because it had a workstation capability.I should have bought a DX7 instead. Still got it stashed away & I have no idea where the disks got to.
Actually this is the best thing Yamaha ever put out there. You have to know what ITS REALLY capable of. It's basically a DX11/TX81Z X 2 with a sequencer and effects. Drum sounds.
Now I own a DX11. And it can produce some amazing sounds. And is alot easier to program than a DX7 with I also owned. And it can sound as warm and fat as an analogue synth aswell as having that digital sparkle. The presets never really do these synths justice. It's when you go into the parameters you see the real magic.
I have created an 808 drum KIT in my internal user patches. And some bass patches that rival a mini moog. And make my speakers earn their keep. It's a great electro funk/pop machine. My friend has the V50. And he did covers of BILLIE JEAN and RHYTHM IS A DANCER using ONLY his own custom drum and synth sounds. I think if he were to upload them to youtube. It would wake alot of people up. To how AWESOME this keyboard really is IN THE RIGHT HANDS. And having the 9 track sequencer means ideas can be layed down FAST. No this was actually the last and BEST keyboard Yamaha put out there. From the SY series onwards they slipped. As a total FM music maker. This is a masterpiece. No SAMPLES. Just second generation 4op FM POWER and beauty. I'm gonna see if I can get him to upload those two songs. Once people hear them. That would be the GAME CHANGER for this amazing synth. Just like the dude that uploaded Robert Miles Children. Done just using a ROLAND MC303. And had people calling him a liar. No way was that done on a Roland MC303. Because they lacked the skill and imagination themselves when they owned the MC303. To see what it was really capable of. They couldnt believe what they were hearing from someone who did.
Like I said put a synth like this in the RIGHT HANDS. And you will see its TRUE POWER.
How so? Their keyboards were everywhere.
Every sound but a piano?
I had a trade offer for one of these, but I recently bought the DIgitone, so I feel like maybe its not really worth it to have two fm synths?
I’d ditch the Digitone, unless you can program your own sounds with it. If not, it’s the V50 for me.
@@cubdukat its definitely really good for programming your own sounds. i did get rid of it but only because i dont really do much music these days
I have the chance of buying this synth.. but many samples sound much alike to mine in the old YS200 digital synth, I need good "old fashioned" pads, synth strings, electric pianos, and pianos like M1 very metallic.. I bought recently a Kurzweil SP4-8 so, orquestra.. I have plenty.. so, needing for PADS and SYNTHY STRINGS or so.. DO you people think.. it would be worthy to get ride of the YS200 and grab this nice V50? Thank you very much for the comments...
***** Txs! For sure I'd prefer the Sy77/99 but are much heavier and cost here in Perú around 500bucks! In the other hand this v50 is lighter and in 280 bucks and barely used.. it would be nice to get a Anx1 blue..but is not a common synth to find here down..thank you very much.
+miguel rejas FM8
+miguel rejas The V-50 has exactly the same sound engine as the YS200 so it wouldn't help you a lot. However you can edit the FM-Sounds in the V-50 to the very detail just like the DX11, whereas the YS-200 only had quick edit. But FM-editing is complicated anyways. So exchanging the YS-200 by V-50 might be worth it but adding rather not. Your sound needs could also be achieved by Roland JV-Synths of the 90s such as the JV-80 or XP-30/50 maybe they are cheaper over there than the M1.
+Miguel REJAS MANRIQUE
Hello Miguel! It's great to see that there still are lots of V50 users out here! I've been given recently a V50 from my niece. The machine is still in very good condition and since I've always loved to learn music. It's a good way to start IMO. However, I've got a small problem with the settings. When I press a key note, the sound comes out nicely but there's a "boom" in the background! Very annoying to say the least...
Regardless the instrument which's been selected. I've tried to figure out and fix the issue but to be honest. I couldn't understand a damn thing reading the manual's user. I've also contacted the support dept of Yamaha France. But those
guys keep on directing me to their dealers... Assuming it’s a technical issue. Which is clearly not!!! The keyboard works just fine though. Can anyone help me out? Your feedback will be more than welcome!!! Cheers from Paris ;-)
+Paulo Carlotti salut de France , t'on V50 n'aurait t"il pas un problème de batterie interne , y a t'il des icone en forme de dollars à l’allumage !? a tu tous les performance ( 100 au total et tous les single ( 100 au total ) . fait lui une procédure reset ...( 1) Mettre sous tension.
CONSEIL: Tous les boutons doit rester déprimé et être pressé dans l'ordre mentionné à l'étape n ° 2 pour une exécution correcte.
2) Appuyez et maintenez enfoncé le bouton [SEQ], puis sur le bouton [CARTE] (situé à côté du bouton de démonstration), puis sur le bouton [DEMO].
3) Maintenez les touches enfoncées jusqu'à ce que la boîte de dialogue apparaît à l'écran. L'affichage d'abord indiquer le programme V50 de test et Main Rom Version puis affichera automatiquement la question: «test manuel d'entrée '
4) Appuyez sur la touche [DEMO]. L'écran affiche: «Factory Set?
5) Appuyez sur la touche [+ 1 / YES]. 'OK' apparaîtra sous la «Factory Set? lecture, indiquant la fin de la réinitialisation, et le V50 revient automatiquement en mode de jeu....
Parece o DX7
실전에 쓸만한 소리가 없네요 ㅠ
My first keyboard in 1993... I really hate the sound :D
are the keys weighed?
I have one, they are not weighed. just spring action.
Not even DX7 keyboard quality..
Curtis Mantronik brought me here
Well done to both of you guys. Thanks a lot. Glad you enjoyed it. Check out my other video's if you have time and interest. There's more.
AUN TIENES EL V-50 YAMAHA
Not much in the way of usable sounds then. It’s like a cheap portasound.
Yes it is. There are much better options available.
Everyone is talking it is the strongest 4op but not a single video to prove that...
Well what do you think is better, as a 4-op synth ? The V50 is most certainly the one with the best interface I'd say
Fred Payette soundwise tx81z
Konrad Hausmann v50 is basically the tx81z with double the polyphony and a dedicated fx processor
Mibrilane the tx81z has 12bit DACs. To my ears, the v50 (16bit) sounds way too clean
Konrad Hausmann my experience is that a clean signal can be made dirty later, but a dirty signal cannot be made clean later.
Ese no tiene ricmos ,
Por qué debería, es un sintetizador, no teclado de acompañamiento