YouTube Uploaded by pmanderson70 on Apr 23, 2011
Yamaha PSR-4600s on eBay. Update: this one is now listed here (bottom three pics below).
"I plan posting this on eBay very soon, but due to it being a quite an uncommon synth, I felt obligated to upload a video of it making sounds so others can appreciate. I only wish I was a better musician so I could make it really shine .
This is a rare vintage Yamaha PSR keyboard circa 1990. There is very little known about this model, the manual is rather short and took a while to discover some of it's undocumented features. I'm sure there are more mysteries to be solved.
I affectionately call this "The Albatross" because of the odd roll bars and weird pattern sequencer. As you can see, it's covered it buttons and sliders. I love the LED display as well as the printouts on the upper panel.
Physically, the keyboard makes a great controller. The keys are firm, responsive and despite the oddness of the roll bars, they are playable.
Nonetheless, the sounds it produces can be quite good.
At it's heart is a 12bit AWM synth and a 2 operator FM synth. Patches can be edited (slightly) and stored. You can layer sounds and split them. It has MIDI, velocity sensitive keys and digital reverb. Some patches crossfade between AWM and FM tones, like a fixed vector synth. This came out about the same time as the Yamaha TG33.
I could be wrong, but I believe this keyboard was a precursor to the big arranger type keyboards... like the Yamaha Tyros."
Some pics via this auction
I just bought this 4600 as a practice tool for my guitar playing,lay down a jam track then play along,this thing is so fun
ReplyDeletecould you please upload the factory demo , because i miss my first keyboard
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