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Average rating:
4.6 out of 5
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I bought the SY85 for �200 second hand. I am still learning its features but I have a feeling I got a pure bargain.
BP
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Wow...this thing really sounds big.....so very big that it is standing beside the Wavestation on the list of my all-time favourites It is really no toy...! If you are looking for a great allrounder to buy at a good price check this baby out! It is awesome!
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The SY85 in my book is the BEST keyboard ever. The sounds are excellent and playability outstanding. The FXs are brillant along with the additional patches. The Organ and Acoustic Piano are the Best (without a doubt). If there is anything I would change on it, it would be to develop a "loop" in sequencing mode.
By the way, I'm on the prowl for a SY85 so if there's anyone out there who has one to sell or "donate" to a church let me know.
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if you like your sy85, then you MUST buy an SU10 sampler, because you can very quickly dump the samples into the ram portion of the sy85. this way you can get fat drums, and loops for dance music. and you can dump looped samples, even partial loops. trust me, i've done it.
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An exceptional instrument with a huge array of features, and an open-ended waveform architecture.
The staple Piano and Pad sounds are more than adequte, and the numerous Rhodes-style patches that can be created with the SY85 really can't be surpassed short of buying the real thing.
Many of the sounds are a bit on the clean and bland side, but you should really look to make your own sounds - the editing facilites are superb, with much scope for evolving, shifting sounds. Features to pick out include the "pitch randomise" paramter that varies the pitch of each note you play ever so slightly and really makes a differnece if your trying to create true acoustic emulations. There are also numerous real-time functions that were on this synth long before Yamaha thought up the CS1x - including control over FX parameters.
The waveforms themselves are of a good quality for the time, but you are not doing this machine justice if you don't endeavour to load samples into the on-board RAM.
Starting to age but, with effort, still very good.
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