« on: November 02, 2015, 07:19:07 PM »
OVERVIEW
The SY77 is a multitimbral, Advanced FM plus AWM workstation, modestly described on the front panel as a 'music synthesizer'. It has the widest range of potential sound-producing capability I have ever witnessed in an 'affordable' instrument - from fully synthetic to breathtakingly real, all in very high quality stereo (or even quad, for those who remember it!). In the past it has always been necessary for musicians to acquire a mixture of different methods of producing sounds (analogue, sampled, digital, etc), but the SY77 makes that approach virtually redundant. Imagine an instrument which has the potential to sound like a D50 LA synth, an M1 AI synth, a U20 using Resynthesized PCM, a Phase Distortion CZ synth, a K5 Additive synth (with up to 32 harmonics), a Clavinova, a DX7, an Oberheim or Prophet Analogue synth, a CS80 using Ring Modulation to warp sound, and more - plus any mixture of these, and some new ones! It looks like I don't need to wait for a Resynthesizer [see SOS Feb 88] - the SY77 can sound like almost any keyboard, and it is here now!
The SY77 I (and other reviewers) have been using is a prototype version, not a fully finished production line model. Therefore some of the functions I am about to describe may have changed slightly in the final design. The factory sounds will probably be different, so I will not concentrate on those which came with the review instrument. The owner's manual was not available for most of the (short) review period but I unearthed no glaring problems, despite some serious exploration of the SY77's quieter back-alleys. The machine has never crashed, and has performed flawlessly in almost every respect - and this was only a prototype! Production models will be available in late January/early February 1990.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_SY77 www.cyborgstudio.com/synthmp3s/yamaha/sy77/manual/sy77ownersmanual.pdfhttp://www.vintagesynth.com/yamaha/sy77.phphttp://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/yamaha-sy77-performance-synthesiser/281
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