Yamaha B200: Ever heard of it?!

video upload by Jeremy Parker

You can find a small handfull of posts mentioning the Yamaha B200 here (only 5 including this one).

00:00 Intro
01:40 History
05:37 Demo
11:45 Song "Throw My Hands Up"
17:55 Outro

"Here's a look at the Yamaha B200 from 1988, and my very first synthesizer from my childhood. You may have seen it in some of my previous videos, but I brought it back to life recently and ended up programming a bunch of cool sounds that you can download if you also own a B200, YS200 or TQ-5. I wrote a couple new tunes here, one of which my featured performance, and I'm just loving the sounds I got, so I think this synth will not be going back in it's case! (Note that the drum sounds are not from the B200, they are from Addictive Drums. The B200 can make drum sounds but does not have drum kits.) If you use Reaper as your DAW, I also made a ReaBank file for it which you can load with the ReaControlMIDI VST, such that you can call up any of the presets over MIDI, etc. Bank 1 has the Preset voice list, Bank 2 has my new sounds, and Bank 3 has the voice list for the RCD1000 ROM voice card:
https://github.com/JeremyMParker/Yama...

Please check out the music for this video and previous videos on my SoundCloud:
https://soundcloud.com/user-801248952

Thanks to Pete Harkins for running the Backbeat Brewing Company where I play every month, and for the cool T-shirt I'm wearing in this vid: https://www.backbeatbrewing.com/

Thanks to the following websites and resources for the pictures and info for this video: [active links on YouTube for those interested]

https://www.righto.com/2021/12/yamaha...
https://www.polynominal.com/yamaha-ym...
https://www.perfectcircuit.com/signal...
https://yamahablackboxes.com/collecti...
https://www.vintagesynth.com/
http://retrosynthads.blogspot.com/
https://europe.yamaha.com/en/products...

Here are some editor librarian programs I found that can potentially work with the B200 and other YM2414-based synths: [active links on YouTube]

https://www.bwalk.com.au/TQ5_2/TQ5_2....
https://tinyloops.com/doc/yamaha_tq5/...
https://squest.com/Products/MidiQuest...
http://home.kpn.nl/m.tarenskeen/ysedi...
https://ctrlr.org/yamaha-tx81z/"