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Published on 10/30/13 at 04:05Everyone know. A hybrid FM / AWM, but more importantly, an enlarged DX!
SY Manager urged (for twenty euros, a great humanist its author!).
If you want a taste of good use of this monster:
https://www.electric-himalaya.com/yamaha_sy77_sy99.html
Personally, I bought this bank, and I do not regret it ...
If you're like me, a fan of Roger Waters, you can hear in the SY album Amused to Death.
UTILIZATION
The large screen is welcome, because there are a lot of pages and settings. Editing is more than a serious business, not to say difficult ... As with the DX, it takes a little know where you're going, or you may change values without any audible result. Indeed, many parameters are interrelated and influence each other (like the DX found the spirit of Dave in the Chowning FM programming). Be especially attentive to envelopes, it is especially here that the changes will be decisive. Modulations are numerous and better note than we selected when changing page, because if you forget to turn it on, it will need to increase their rates in another page ...
SOUNDS
Here is finally a synth that reminds us that this is a synth! Needless to seek a contemporary use of AWM samples: the "workstations" Today do that very well. When you look at the screen, it reads: "Music Synthesizer". That said it all: it is the spirit that reigns DX: sounds and emulations MUSICAL, expressive with shades, it was the spirit chosen by Yamaha in the 80/90. No wonder Chick Corea has always followed. With SY, it is expressed, it is inspired, it breathes ...
Most often, a 2AFM configuration is ample to create complex sounds or rich. The SY excels in environments and evolving textures. It reminds a bit of Korg Wavestation, since looping envelopes to 5 segments themselves are made of the sequence of waves. Certainly more subtle! RCM (Real time Convolution Modulation) is a major advantage: you Inject in FM algorithms signal a sample AWM (for short). It usually results in a slight distortion of the signal and a harmonic addition missing out. For example, an FM signal modulated by a little copper a sample voice nickname give particular granularity, giving the impression to hear the air pass through the throat in addition to the vibration of the vocal cords, with an effect "hoarseness "... We can even exclude the direct wave signal AWM output for even greater effect. Nobody can imitate or reproduce such a sound. The SY is an authentic synth apart, without the disadvantages of digital: each note down, there will never twice the same sound ... He's alive.
The resonant filters do their job with a sound a little chilly, yes, but effective, especially in conjunction with the LFO, in the sounds. They are a boon when it connects to one of three modulation wheel or aftertouch.
Regarding the effects, modulations flange / chorus / symphonic are set parallel with the SPX brand. They are frank and sharp, a little cold. Reverbs are of the same ilk. Finally, the delays are as usual with Yamaha deadly and accurate.
OVERALL OPINION
This is once again a long history, with breaks and renouements ... Do not dispose of the instrument when you get tired a little bit. It is better to question oneself and personal problems rather than abandon such a synth. Anyway, this is a very strong instrument! It passes through many years and revise easily and inexpensively. Therefore, we can meet and find it quite easily. We all do mistakes, you can not keep everything ... but him! If! We must keep it.
On stage, he crossed out the mix, it adds a medium / medium high appreciable coloration. It thus complements happily a varied set of multiple colors, what should always be to have a wide range, such as painting.
SY Manager urged (for twenty euros, a great humanist its author!).
If you want a taste of good use of this monster:
https://www.electric-himalaya.com/yamaha_sy77_sy99.html
Personally, I bought this bank, and I do not regret it ...
If you're like me, a fan of Roger Waters, you can hear in the SY album Amused to Death.
UTILIZATION
The large screen is welcome, because there are a lot of pages and settings. Editing is more than a serious business, not to say difficult ... As with the DX, it takes a little know where you're going, or you may change values without any audible result. Indeed, many parameters are interrelated and influence each other (like the DX found the spirit of Dave in the Chowning FM programming). Be especially attentive to envelopes, it is especially here that the changes will be decisive. Modulations are numerous and better note than we selected when changing page, because if you forget to turn it on, it will need to increase their rates in another page ...
SOUNDS
Here is finally a synth that reminds us that this is a synth! Needless to seek a contemporary use of AWM samples: the "workstations" Today do that very well. When you look at the screen, it reads: "Music Synthesizer". That said it all: it is the spirit that reigns DX: sounds and emulations MUSICAL, expressive with shades, it was the spirit chosen by Yamaha in the 80/90. No wonder Chick Corea has always followed. With SY, it is expressed, it is inspired, it breathes ...
Most often, a 2AFM configuration is ample to create complex sounds or rich. The SY excels in environments and evolving textures. It reminds a bit of Korg Wavestation, since looping envelopes to 5 segments themselves are made of the sequence of waves. Certainly more subtle! RCM (Real time Convolution Modulation) is a major advantage: you Inject in FM algorithms signal a sample AWM (for short). It usually results in a slight distortion of the signal and a harmonic addition missing out. For example, an FM signal modulated by a little copper a sample voice nickname give particular granularity, giving the impression to hear the air pass through the throat in addition to the vibration of the vocal cords, with an effect "hoarseness "... We can even exclude the direct wave signal AWM output for even greater effect. Nobody can imitate or reproduce such a sound. The SY is an authentic synth apart, without the disadvantages of digital: each note down, there will never twice the same sound ... He's alive.
The resonant filters do their job with a sound a little chilly, yes, but effective, especially in conjunction with the LFO, in the sounds. They are a boon when it connects to one of three modulation wheel or aftertouch.
Regarding the effects, modulations flange / chorus / symphonic are set parallel with the SPX brand. They are frank and sharp, a little cold. Reverbs are of the same ilk. Finally, the delays are as usual with Yamaha deadly and accurate.
OVERALL OPINION
This is once again a long history, with breaks and renouements ... Do not dispose of the instrument when you get tired a little bit. It is better to question oneself and personal problems rather than abandon such a synth. Anyway, this is a very strong instrument! It passes through many years and revise easily and inexpensively. Therefore, we can meet and find it quite easily. We all do mistakes, you can not keep everything ... but him! If! We must keep it.
On stage, he crossed out the mix, it adds a medium / medium high appreciable coloration. It thus complements happily a varied set of multiple colors, what should always be to have a wide range, such as painting.