Yamaha PS-3 Review
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- Опубліковано 29 лип 2024
- This is my full review on the Yamaha PS-3, The first PortaSound keyboard, which was released in 1980 (together with the PS-1 and PS-2). I will have a look inside, repair the scratching knobs and show all of its features.
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0:00 Intro and overview
3:00 A look inside
8:54 Instruments
12:01 Rhythms
14:10 Multitrack recording
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I was 15 years old when Yamaha first released the PS-3. I bought it in a big hurry and played the PS-3 every day. I was a sophomore in high school in Japan at the time, and I took the PS-3 with me on school trips and had fun playing it with my friends. It brings back memories.
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It is obvious tons of love go into making these videos. They are truly great, educational, and entertaining.
Everything about this video is perfection! Absolute perfection! You’re impeccable! I’m a 30+ year fan of home keyboards, this is like candy to me!
Man, you do such a wonderful job of putting these together! The teardown, fix-em-Ups, mods, circuit highlights, history and then brilliant demos on top of your top-notch production is spectacular! You make all of this fun and I'm constantly looking forward to whatever you have in store for the next one. Excellent work, and thank you again!
I just discovered your channel, but I fully agree. Your editing, recording, in depth commentary, and music is all well done.. Your channel deserves more spotlight. Congrats.
Agreed, a nice discovery.
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The music during the restoring scenes is wonderful. I just love these little lo-fi beats&sounds. Cool chord progressions too.
what can i say. the voice is professional and perfectly comprehendable, the text is perfect, the information is consistent, the final output heavily resembles good old professional docu movies from the long gone times when BBS and Discovery cannels were about knowlage popularisation. that means a lot in our times of total cultural degradation. thanx a lot, greets from rusia (actually the nazy ukraine). am getting a PS-3 these days, have payed less than 15 american coupons.
Wow. So many memories with this in the early 80's. Made my first tunes with it. ❤
Because of your video I had the confidence to also buy a PS-3 which was in reality a write-off. Only two sounds worked, all was scratchy. Did the same like you did. Now it is more or less pristine! Thanks a lot for the inspiration!
What a great voice! Clarity, gently and full of peace. Video also excellent.
Love your channel. It is so refreshing and inspiring to see somebody making good music using such simple and inexpensive hardware.
This thing is delightfully serviceable. That filter has an amazing sound and it's extremely easy to add a cutoff & resonance control, which I can fully recommend ;)
How?
well i know what im digging up next time im at mum's. This sounds so much better with a decent speaker then it did when i was 6 lol.
Absolutely love the jingles and ditties you put together.
I still have mine from 1984, in more or less perfection condition. I still have that tech crush on Japan 40 years later.
What a wonderful video and channel. I’ve just watched three of your videos in a row with two of them being on keyboards I’ve owned over the years and it’s great to see and hear someone doing these fantastic old instruments the justice they so richly deserve. Plus of course you are a great player and composer too. My first ‘proper’ keyboard was a PS2 back in 1980 and I was a very lucky young lad with very caring and wonderful parents, as these things weren’t cheap at the time and my folks were not exactly well off, but they wanted£ to encourage my love of music. Thanks to their support I ended up at one point becoming a pretty serious semi-professional keyboard player and it all started with my lovely little oh so portable and playable PS2. In fact I still have mine and it still plays, these things were built to last. I did also pick up a second hand PS3 from eBay a few years back as I had a friend who had that model and always liked those extra sounds. Anyway thanks for your fantastic video and my trip down a very happy musical memory lane.
watching your videos is very relaxing. You have made an incredible professional work.
PS-3 is the first keyboard I got as a child. really nostalgic. The styling was also good. Thank you!
This video is an artistic masterpiece, the music, the narration, the content, the nostalgia. Amazing.
Love all your videos. This channel will grow, it has to.
I loved this part of the song 16:07 - so beautiful! My Dad bought this for us growing up, I love this synth so much! Thanks for the comprehensive video of it! 💙
Whilst waiting for this review, I actually picked up a PS-3 myself and I do have to say that it's really fun and easy to use. My favourite voice is the vibraphone, though. Great review!
This brings back memories of my young teenage as my first keyboard was the Yamaha PS20. This was in 1981. Alongside with the CS01 I’ve purchased the following year, I was able to play entirely the first two albums from Jean-Michel Jarre, Oxygène and Équinoxe. Adapted, of course :). I sold it to finance a DX7 few years after (which I still have, as well as the CS01).
Well done U’ve made a brilliant job sorting it and not bad sounds on board.
Awesome Video! I didn’t know how capable my Portasound truly was until now. Very much appreciated! :)
Just scored one of these at a thrift store for 5 dollars with case and manuals. I was very happy. Great job on these BTW. Keep em coming!
I don't comment often... Your channel is really awesome. Nice work.
Very well done 👍. Your demo was great. Thank you.
Superb music and great, detailed review!
I'm getting interested in learning keyboard / piano and found this channel. Your content is underrated. =)
Your videos are my absolute favourites in this genre. You have a fantastic voice, also. You should be some kind of an actor :)
Very nostalgic video for me, I learned to play on A yamaha PS-3 at school in the 80s
Great, detailed review!
I was compelled - and fully drawn into this video... upon watching you bravely take on the repair of your beloved PS3, I found myself offering prayers on your behalf - and was hoping it would come through with a clean bill of health. A keyboard from 1980..? Here's hoping the PS3 will be making music 40 years from now, and your good self too!
All the very best!
Live the multi-track session at the end!
Danish singer Kim Larsen used the PS-3's accompaniment as the backbone to his song "Volver Volver". There's even a video of him playing that song live with this keyboard on his shoulder, triggering the different chords with one finger!
I have one of these i inherited from my grandma. Ive always thought of it as a miniature home organ! Thanks for bringing up the chip that's in it. Always wondered what filters and tricks its been doing.
Cool music dude! this little one is good sounding too
The idea of portability has been the dream of serious musicians for decades. People want to take their keyboards to different places and perform without having to sacrifice the number of keys (76 or 88). Some instruments like a guitar can travel around in a case but a full-sized 88 keyboard can be a challenge going on road or taking them on flights. So far the most common portable keyboard type are the roll-up ones with up to 88 keys. With flat keys they are not exactly easy to play but does the job.
Old keyboards for today's piano students is too much like a toy. The piano sound is n't very good and most people would be buying digital pianos with weighed keys, touch sensitivity and foot pedals for serious playing. In the past we don't have many options when it comes to keyboards but today we would give a young child something like this for fun but not for serious learning with a teacher.
I'm trying to get the intestional fortitude to do some surgery on some of my keyboards. Absolutely love the channel!
awesome review..!
Great share! Missing the Latin Rhythm demonstration... Thanks for producing these amazing videos.
Nice keyboard and video. Thank you 😊
9:39 about the retriggering, sounds like sign of a paraphonic filter, a single filter for the whole keyboard, and with the filter cutoff not being static on that instrument you can notice the retriggering of the filter. It actually happens on the guitar tone as well.
this is gold, thank you!
great review, caught myself thinking how your voice and hands seem to belong to a different person somehow... I am considering buying one and your review is a one stop info shop.
I bought the PS-3 keyboard a few years ago, with a dedicated carrycase, in a pristine state.
Funny enough, of my top 5 favorite patches....4 are the ones that are exclusive to the PS-3. I just got one of these for $30 total (including shipping) it includes the case. I can not wait to get it!
P.S. I love the way you do these videos, this is the first time I have seen one of your videos.
The brass & guitar voices re-trigger because they’re actually run through a resonant analogue filter. And because it’s too expensive to put 1 filter on each voice like a true polyphonic analogue, it’s paraphonic. One filter for all notes. Very interesting this keyboard has a filter, but only uses it for a few sounds.
The harpsichord sounds really good !
And a few months after this review, Yamaha is back to producing PSS keyboards again! PSS-A50
Wonderful, thank you!
I have one of these and a PS30 and picked them up cheap , would love to see U do a demo on the PS30, they stand there own with other synths I reckon like the Moog grandmother and modal Argon8 etc and are just beautiful. Built to last too.
Bought one with the case in like… damn near mint condition for $50 yesterday! Merry Xmas to me!
You deserve wayyy more subs, you could make a piano documentary and I’d probably watch it
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PERFECTION
very helpful video thanks very much. 4 types of chord avaliable, major, dominant 7 (1,3,5,b7) minor and minor 7,
This guy rules
Have an actual analog VCF and VCA, this just HAS to be ripe for bending. I have to believe that extending more controls from some of those sections would yield a more comprehensive analog synth experience.
Yesterday I bough one like new, never been played before for a 15$ and the JVC KB 500 the silver Edition for 20$ and lastly the JVC KB 800 for 50$
I'm soo lucky and happy with them they're like new
I just grabbed a PS-2 at the flea market today. 7 dollars, with the case! Couple knobs are scratchy, and the speaker doesn't work.
Sounds awesome with headphones.
Just discovered this video by chance, this is gear porn! The music is l-o-v-e-l-y, went to hear it on bandcamp, the remix you did for the video isn´t available there and is perfect with this slow mouvement in the middle and the refrain coming back slowly, love this version on the video. Great vibe!
Actually, the PSS-30 came out in 1982. PS was not replaced by PSS but split into the PSS and PSR series.
Looking for a simple keyboard for a < 2 year old kid, I notice how few simple options there are. Even cheap home keyboards are stuffed with features which are obviously unfathomable to any kid - and most adults. I'd love to see Casio et al bring back simpler keyboards. The Yamaha PSS-E30 is just about the only somewhat simple keyboard I could find.
Very nice showcase for the PS3. I have one with a high pitched whine on the audio output - tried batteries or PSU, same noise. It does cut out sometimes, but comes straight back. No key or knob combinations seem to stop it...any idea what it could be? Thanks.
3:43 Is that key contact strip common on those mini keyboards from that era? I have a DX100 with a faulty one :'(
Fantastic video.
Could you do Casio PT 20 video?
Nice video BTW, i love it.
This is A very nice keyboard, though im not really a fan of Yamaha I still like the sound of this keyboard.
I have a have a keyboard collection made up mainly with Yamaha and Casio keyboards my very first big full size keyboard (which I still have and still works very well) was a Casio model CT-650 this particular model has been out of production for quite some time now but you might be able to find someone selling one on eBay or Craig’s List if you are interested it’s really a nice keyboard it’s got some nice sounds and beats another good one I have is the Casio CT-670 (also out of production) I believe all my keyboard models are out of production now but still very good like my Yamaha PSR-175 or my Yamaha EZ-200 with light up keys or another good one I have is my Yamaha PSR-E403 you can program MIDI files from your computer (if you have any) onto that keyboard but only a limited amount at a time or my Casio PT-110 that one is only a have sized one but still a good one I think those are all my major keyboards feel free to look up any of these models but keep in mind they are all out of production now in fact there was an episode of King Of The Hill where they used a Casio CT-650 it was the episode where the gang created a band and called themselves The Propaneiacs and the keyboard beat sounds you between gigs when you saw them travelling from gig to gig those beat sounds were that of the Casio CT-650 and that was my very first full size keyboard that I ever had and like I said still have it and it still works
Oh man I thought you were making digs at my mom but I was just mishearing Yamaha
I've just received my own PS-3 (with the case
Is there an AC adapter for this keyboard? I still have mine from 1981, but never bought an AC adapter for it. Great video👍
Hi! I hope you notice this, I have the same Yamaha Portasound PS-3 which I got from the surplus. But It does creates some high pitched noise at idle whenever I select a voice while connected to an external speaker when playing. Do you think it might be done by cleaning the internals? thanks!
Oi, amigo. Você saberia onde encontrar a tecla lá do yamanha ps3
9:59 I know this melody but I can’t find the name back, does anybody know ?
Just got one for 23 pound very worth it
Quincy Jones used Yamaha Portasound extensively on his early 80's productions. Examples: Donna Summer 'Mystery of love', Michael Jackson 'PYT' or James Ingram & Michael McDonald 'Yah mo b there'.
9:10 Quick link to the tone demos.
This keyboard has a really warm and typical late 70s sound to it.
Hello from Ecuador! Can you recommend me a vintage beginner keyboard? Casiotone? Portasound?
Do you know the Mt 45 has a hidden rythm? I imagine several Mt do.
the buttons and encoders are right off a suzuki omnichord om27 lol
Hey ich habe genau dasselbe Keyboard, leider finde ich den adapter nicht mehr / das teil um es überhaupt mit Strom zu versorgen... kann man sich das irgendwo noch kaufen wenn ja wie heißt es?
Funktioniert auch mit einem Universalnetzteil. Auf 9-12Volt einstellen und auf die Polarität achten: Innen positiv!
Nice review! May I know what DAW you used to record the multi-track performance?
Samplitude ProX3
I got Yamaha ps-300 with port name Expression pedal on RCA jack. Does anyone know what it is ? What expression pedal should I use? Or how about a homemade one what should I do( make).?
It's for the Yamaha EP-1 volume pedal. I don't have one but I assume it's not too complicated to get another one working. I will check it out when I do my review of the PS-400, but this can take a while.
They could have worked on that string preset a bit more. Great demo.
I miss mine! And it’s case...
can anyone recomend a piano keyboard restoration shop?
Rockin ✌😚💢💗👌👌
I like your video bro
My piano is 20 year's old
I have one like New Brand, im not shure now if sell it or no.
Hi Keen, what audio cable do you use to plug it into an amplifier? Im getting a lot of hum noises when i hook it up as input to my phone or laptop
A simple audio cable, I guess it was a stereo cable, but that's not necessary. The output is mono.
Hey great video, i have the same keyboard and Id love to know how I can record this Through the headphone jack cud u give me some help? thanks
I assume that you want to use a computer for that. Install a recording software and connect the output of the PS-3 to the audio input of your computer. If it doesn't have an audio input, then you will need to buy an audio interface (check out my PSS-A50 MIDI & Recording video, it has some tips for recording).
@@KeenOnKeys thanks, love your videos, keep up the great content
5:43 that's one nice looking bottle of contact spray.
Great videos! Recently arrive one but doesn’t come with DC adapter, what’s the electrical specs? I’ll appreciate any data, thanks a lot! Best for you
9V - center positive
@@KeenOnKeys thanks bro!
It probably needs a good clean with electronic cleaner that’s easy enough to get hold of from an electrical store. Hey good music. I’m a keyboard piano player and I sing as a pure hobby. I’ve owned many keyboards over the years including a WONDERFUL Genos I currently own.
Would you do a review of a pss-140?
I'll be waiting for it
I will, but until then: watch my SHS-10 video, it has the same sound chip.
Yamaha should make a Reface of this model, with 4 full minikeys octaves, and the touch sensitivity of the Reface CP keybed.
Sound demo starts @ 9:00
I bought a MP-1 -wonderful. I posted a song yesterday btw.
The PS3 knows one finger Maj7 (not the MP-1).
The sounds are quite similar but different, what do you think about that? You said that the electronics are different too
(excellent channel btw, you deserve more views...They will come)
The MP-1 sounds a bit cleaner, less muffled.
@@KeenOnKeys Thank you.
Hey I know I already commented but I have a question. How did you record directly from your Portasound? I’ve been trying different methods and none of them have worked.
I connected the headphone output to the input of my audio interface.
@@KeenOnKeys did you use an adapter? What audio interface did you use? I’m sorry if I’m being annoying, and I really appreciate that you responded quickly, I just need to get fairly specific cuz I tried doing it (I connected a 1/4 inch to 3.5 mm cord from keyboard to pc and tried recording) and it didn’t work for me. Again, thanks for the response =]
@@psychic_digit I used a RME 9632, but it doesn't matter which audio interface you use. Any will do, if it's properly installed.
@@KeenOnKeys ok that helps, thank you =)