Monster Synths: Yamaha SY77 Past The Presets

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3 ай бұрын

The Yamaha SY77/99 is an absolute monster synth, but you would never know it judging by the really bland factory presets that emphasized the "ROMpler" side of this beast. As the evolution of the DX series, the SY77/99 can do all of those iconic sounds, but it can also go WAY beyond, and even do some decent analog modular-type stuff. Arcade Orchestra producer & 80s synth nut Jim Daneker highlights just a handful of favorite patches from this incredible synth.
Note: the internal reverbs are pretty awful, so with one or two exceptions here, any reverb will come from a vintage Lexicon 300 or AMS RMX16. The SY77's chorus and "Symphonic" effects are fantastic however, so that's what you're hearing there.
Some of these patches are custom, but most are compiled from a few really good 3rd party libraries - check them out and support their work:
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@d4r0xx0r 3 ай бұрын

I came here from the Yamaha DX7 group on Facebook, and I am overawed by the sheer cinematic quality of these patches. Well done, Jim!

@JimDaneker 3 ай бұрын

Thanks Steve!

@conservativeokie 3 ай бұрын

What would the ‘80’s have been without David Foster?!

@JimDaneker 3 ай бұрын

Right?!?? His DNA was everywhere!

@taosophymusic 29 күн бұрын

What would Chicago have been without David Foster? Actually that’s what everyone in Chicago BUT Peter Cetera is thinking.😂😂😂😂

@conservativeokie 3 ай бұрын

You made my week with these awesome sounds brother! Thank you! Love ya’ Jim!!!

@conservativeokie 3 ай бұрын

As soon as I heard, “warbly,” I immediately thought, “Willow!” 😂 How freakin’ cool! Thanks Jimbo!

@thiagodalpoz 3 ай бұрын

Simply great!

@80sday36 Ай бұрын

very good demo man! also love your 80s style of playing. subs to your channel already.

@JimDaneker Ай бұрын

Thanks so much for the kind words!

@cmaynes 3 ай бұрын

great sounds Jim!

@JimDaneker 3 ай бұрын

Thanks buddy! Wish I could take credit, but they're mostly 3rd party that I tweaked a bit ;-)

@cmaynes 3 ай бұрын

@@JimDaneker 90% of the win is in making the selections that resonate with you!

@OIP_1 Ай бұрын

such an epic synth. as well as the massive analog style sounds, i also love trying to get filthy modern FM basses out of it. have to wonder if the designers even knew what it was capable of

@Shred_The_Weapon 3 ай бұрын

Thank you, Jim, for playing the intro to the Chicago single “If She Would Have Been Faithful” at 1:00. Hearing it was like chicken soup for the soul, no matter what anyone else might have to say about that song.

@JimDaneker 3 ай бұрын

LOVE that song. Those David Foster harmonies are NUTS! I had the honor of having Jason Scheff over a few months ago to start reimagining some of those songs for Arcade Orchestra, and it was mind blowing to hear him sing those parts 38 years later - he still sounds just as good!

@Shred_The_Weapon 3 ай бұрын

I doubt you not, @@JimDaneker. There’s been many of times when I have enjoyed hearing Jason sing more than hearing Peter Cetera. Each of them brought something different to Chicago. I wish I had such an opportunity as you did.

@JimDaneker 3 ай бұрын

@@Shred_The_Weapon I was definitely pinching myself. The best part is he's an absolute stellar human being - can't say enough good stuff about him!

@Shred_The_Weapon 3 ай бұрын

I dig, @@JimDaneker.

@xiaoxia5 3 ай бұрын

couldn’t afford the SY77 back in the day, but i had two SY77 posters on my wall. still have them too!

@JimDaneker 3 ай бұрын

Amazing how cheap you can find them today!

@zeldafan9016 3 ай бұрын

If you're lucky they go for 300 something dollars on eBay

@JimDaneker 3 ай бұрын

@@zeldafan9016 yep - $350 for mine in mint shape! 😁

@rareflower88 3 ай бұрын

Nice video! I have an SY85 from the early 90's that is still kicking around. Never figured out how to do any sound synthesis or adjustment of patches on it and didn't know anything about its lineage. Kind of exciting it is in the family descended from the DX!

@JimDaneker 3 ай бұрын

The SY85 was a fantastic synth too. Very different from the 77/99 - it had no FM engine like the DX series and the SY77/99 as it was purely sample-based. But it did sound great and could make some wonderful sounds!

@rareflower88 3 ай бұрын

@@JimDaneker Thanks for the information! I bought it for the onboard sequencer in the day. So difficult to work on that small 2 row display. Graduated to MIDI controllers and Logic in the late 2000's and don't do any recording nowadays. I wish there had been KZfaq and how-to tutorials in the 90's so I could have really expanded my knowledge at the time when I had more time and more hunger for it. 🙂

@craigzolkowski5396 3 ай бұрын

Ahhh… This gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling. 😊

@JimDaneker 3 ай бұрын

Yes sir! Me too!

@felipesundaephil5062 27 күн бұрын

São timbres altamente inspirativos , nuances incríveis!!🔧✨

@sauermusicDE 3 ай бұрын

5:32 Van Halen - "When It's Love" 🙂

@jimroseberry5608 3 ай бұрын

Sounds great, Jim! Wanted an SY77 so bad when I was younger. Did you ever grab a Montage M? Love most things about the M8X. Wish ANX had filters with more character and was a bit more full featured.

@JimDaneker 3 ай бұрын

Been waiting on a Montage M8X since October! 😢

@dac3298 3 ай бұрын

@4:49 Reminds me of a duran duran song - sounds like this was the patch they used on an arpegiator

@zackmedic4999 3 ай бұрын

1:19 grown up christmas list??? hell yeah!

@JimDaneker 3 ай бұрын

Had to play that song many times on Amy/MWS Christmas tours. Such great songs ;-)

@earlsfield 3 ай бұрын

classic Yamaha through 80s and 90s.

@JimDaneker 3 ай бұрын

Yup!

@Glexmusic 28 күн бұрын

Hey, did anybody tried out the new Halion 7 from Steinberg?

@coolnegative 3 ай бұрын

I definitely heard some CCM classics in there.🙂

@JimDaneker 3 ай бұрын

That's 3 decades of working in that world talking 😁

@stefanhoffmann2748 3 ай бұрын

Great video - like usual :o) THanks a lot of sharing. I own a TG77 but didn`t use it for +18 years. I was not reminding that it coud sound that way ... before finally swithing to Motif etc. I found the EX7 "nicer" in comparison to the TG77. What do you think about the EX7?

@JimDaneker 3 ай бұрын

I had an EX5 and loved it - killer synth. I'd love one again with the AN-X board! Very different than the SY77/99 though - I will always adore FM synths. They get a bad rap for being "cold/digital" but I couldn't disagree more - they can sound really warm and lush, as this video shows 😁

@scottmcauleysounds 3 ай бұрын

The sizzle is great, it's fat, its warm, it's got a very distinct enya type feel too! (along with so many 80's classics!) not sure if enya used one if these, but I'm sure my ears hear it :)

@JimDaneker 3 ай бұрын

She definitely used a lot of DX7 and Juno/Jupiter!

@Swanlord05 3 ай бұрын

Can you do a Van Halen Jump patch please?

@conservativeokie 3 ай бұрын

“Cyclops” = Last Chance Band, Oklahoma City, 1989!!

@davidjordan9074 3 ай бұрын

Wasn't that originally a Moog at 5:14 (on the record)? I always thought that it was.. but that sounded darn close. Beginning of Sussudio as well? Maybe I'm not remembering correctly. Love this SY vid.. I never owned one, but had buddies that did.

@JimDaneker 3 ай бұрын

That was all Oberheim. This video isn't to claim that this was the synth used on those songs - it's just to show that it's capable of playing in those same ballparks, with big, fat tones 😁

@BolotonMr 3 ай бұрын

Wow, sounds really amazing😮.. What about tg77 rack version vs sy77 or 99.. Can I get all of then sounds, what's de different between then?

@JimDaneker 3 ай бұрын

TG77 is identical to the SY77 😁

@kiskadar69 Ай бұрын

@BolotonMr SY77: 5-octave keyboard (velocity, channel aftertouch), sequencer (16 tracks, 16000 MIDI events), FDD (3.5" DS/DD), no INDIVIDUAL line output. TG77: 19" rack, sequencer no, FDD no, INDIVIDUAL line output 1..8.

@ShallRemainUnknown 13 күн бұрын

TG77 had some subtle benefits to it (aside from more audio outputs), really wish they'd have kept the floppy drive, though.

@govorit_i_pokazivaet 3 ай бұрын

На одном синтезаторе можно целый альбом записать.

@jcedar25 3 ай бұрын

Is there going to be a Jim Daneker tour anytime soon to experience all of these great sounds live?

@JimDaneker 3 ай бұрын

Yes indeed - be sure to follow Arcade Orchestra! That's my lifelong dream and we're hard at work to make it happen! 😁

@jcedar25 3 ай бұрын

@@JimDaneker I can’t wait! That is going to be epic!

@JimDaneker 3 ай бұрын

@@jcedar25 me either, my friend 😁👊🏻

@mypdxrealtor 3 ай бұрын

What external arpeggiator were you using?

@JimDaneker 3 ай бұрын

Just the one in Logic Pro.

@Swanlord05 3 ай бұрын

Wow can I buy the patches from u

@JimDaneker 3 ай бұрын

See the video description- most are 3rd party patches I bought, so I provided links. 😁

@happyjessus Ай бұрын

Anyone knows how this compares to the SY55?

@old_and_obsolete Ай бұрын

SY55 has the AWM engine but lacks the AFM engine, same heavy duty build quality with slightly less nice feeling keys (still great keys with great aftertouch). They feel like two very different synths.

@user-ce8ut8hr9k Ай бұрын

I had both. Sy77 is far better, with FM. 55 is just a rompler.

@TayWoode 13 күн бұрын

I’ve got an SY55 and it’s sample based using the same samples as the SY77 but no FM synth engine. Some of the sounds are actually still good like the synth bass and the sax is very good for stabs in dance music It has surprisingly good filters and other effects that can drastically change the samples. 8 track sequencer that holds 8 songs compared to the 16 track one song on the SY77

@user-ce8ut8hr9k 13 күн бұрын

@@TayWoode I'm pretty sure the samples being actually better in the 55, with a bit more detail. I was quite disappointed with the samples in the 77. The 55 came out after and might have benefited from the samples that made it into the 99.

@ShallRemainUnknown 13 күн бұрын

@@TayWoode No, SY/TG55 has only 2MB PCM-ROM, versus 4MB on SY/TG77. There may be other differences within their PCM-subtractive synth engines, too, or auxiliary to them (e.g. '77 has separate pan envelopes, not sure about '55).

@Swanlord05 3 ай бұрын

Who changed your screen to blue?

@JimDaneker 3 ай бұрын

I did. The old one needed to be replaced.

@Swanlord05 3 ай бұрын

@@JimDaneker was it hard?

@JimDaneker 3 ай бұрын

@@Swanlord05 yes, the SY77 is the most difficult synth I've worked on - lots of layers!

@doordedeur 3 ай бұрын

It didn't have modes to layer or split sounds, so live it was useless.

@JimDaneker 2 ай бұрын

Neither did the DX7, and it defined a decade. It's all about the sounds and what you do with them. Back in those days you typically had multiple synths/modules, so that's how you did splits & layers.

@croonologist 2 ай бұрын

someone said there was a hack to do it, maybe MIDI auto-chain, I don't remember

@oupahens9219 2 ай бұрын

@@croonologist Yep, connect Midi out to Midi in, then you can play live on two channels. And anyway per "Voice" you had two FM sounds layered or split and two AWM sounds. With that trick you could play 8 different sounds at the same time. 'doordedeur' is probably referring to a different synth.

@Ox47145 2 ай бұрын

The SY77 lacks the "Master Controller" feature of the SY99 which allows layering and/or split sounds without any hack. On the SY99: (1) Setup the desired voices within a "MULTI"; and (2) set up the splits/layers within a custom "Master Controller" configuration.

@annother3350 Ай бұрын

I have an SY77 -- I've never tried but surely you just create a multi with two sounds set to say, ch 1 and set the key ranges?

@burns46824 3 ай бұрын

It's not a very good-sounding synth. Those pianos pale in comparison to my TX816.

@JimDaneker 3 ай бұрын

I've owned pretty much every DX/TX which I adore - especially the TX816 - and I'll agree to disagree. The SY77 is totally unique and sounds fantastic. Yeah, the TX can do those iconic massive EP layers, but it can't do the more complex stuff that the SY can. They compliment each other really well.

@burns46824 3 ай бұрын

@@JimDaneker fair enough. I guess I like the tonality of the earlier modules.

@JimDaneker 3 ай бұрын

@@burns46824 me too - I've always been a sucker for DX synths, and there's nothing better than a TX816! Absolutely monstrous sounds!

@tomcoyan1730 3 ай бұрын

TX816 is a DX7 on massive steroids. SY77 adds the secret sauce of the samples. Killer combination!

@JimDaneker 3 ай бұрын

@@tomcoyan1730 for sure!