Yamaha Sonogenic SHS-500/SHS-300

Published on Jan 2, 2020 Yamaha Corporation of America

"Yamaha Sonogenic is a keytar designed for both experienced players and for those who have never struck a note. Experienced players can rock out with a variety of on-board Voices or connect to external sound sources for even more options.

Beginners will never hit a wrong note when they use JAM Mode while connected to the free Yamaha Chord Tracker app. Play along with your favorite songs right from your smart device and Sonogenic will make sure all of your notes work with the music! Two models, SHS-500 and SHS-300 are available."

Korg PSS-50/Poly-800 Demo Song (1984)

Published on Dec 14, 2019 jd wall

“The PSS-50 Programmable Super Section was released in 1984. Different chordal accompaniment patterns/sounds, bass lines, and drum patterns could be combined into custom machine-music combinations. In this lo-res video it’s providing the backup for a Poly-800 routed through some PME-40X effects. (The keyboard-guitar thing was definitely a phase, and the vibrations from Al Di Meola’s Tour-De-Force LP were still in the air.)

Cheers,
Don M”

FORMANTA MINI VINTAGE SOVIET KEYTAR SYNTHESIZER SN 0792012

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New Yamaha SHS-300 Mini Keytar

Published on Sep 30, 2019 Yamaha_Global

Kittens Have Lasers

Published on Sep 9, 2019 Learson Peak

CHECK OUT MY LATEST SINGLE
https://open.spotify.com/track/7kEzsx...

GEAR USED IN THIS EPISODE

Behringer Deepmind 6
Behringer Model D
Alesis Votex
Fender Jaguar Bass
Drums - Korg Volca Sample
Vocals - EV RE20
Preamp - Neve 511
Compressor - DBX 560a

Computer - MacBook Pro 
My Music Software - Pro Tools 12
Audio Interface - Focusrite Clarett 8Pre-X
Video Camera - iPhone 6+
Video Software - Final Cut X

Official Website
➤ https://www.learsonpeak.com/

Keytar Madness

Published on Aug 27, 2019 Learson Peak

Korg Poly-800 mkII

Old Town Road [Starcourt Mall Remix] SYNTHWAVE COVER

Published on Jul 19, 2019 Ace Waters

"Ain't nobody tell me nothin.

Bisexual Space Magic, my new Synthwave EP is available on all platforms right now! GET IT: https://ampl.ink/geQ8X"

ROLAND LUCINA AX-09 KEYTAR

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Had to do a double take on this one.

From the listing: "Modified with el wire for looks, wire can be removed very easily leaving no marks on the body, if desired."

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MIND Music Labs Builds Custom Fishman Guitar Synth w/ Arturia's Prophet V for MUSE

MIND Music Labs built MUSE's Matt Bellamy a custom Fishman TriplePlay MIDI Guitar Controller hosting their ELK MusicOS and Arturia's Prophet V for live use. This appears to be a one-off instrument - no word on whether it will be released to market.

The press release follows:

How Fishman, Arturia and MIND Music Labs Followed their MUSE to a State of the Art Synth Guitar in 30 Days

British mega band MUSE is currently on tour promoting their latest album Simulation Theory performing in sold out stadiums all over the world. Each night frontman and guitarist Matt Bellamy brings out a one of a kind guitar with a special history to play the song “The Dark Side.” While Bellamy is happy with the result, reporting that “the guitar works great!” the story of how this guitar was conceived and built is just a few short weeks is very interesting.

Matt Bellamy, being the perfectionist that he is, wants the sounds he created in the studio on stage as much as possible. One essential part of his sound is the Arturia Prophet V synthesizer. Being a user of Fishman’s TriplePlay MIDI guitar pickup & controller, both on stage and in the studio, he wanted to continue to use that to play the Arturia synth live, but without distance, range, cables and a computer getting in the way of his stage performance.

“When Matt told me he absolutely wanted to use the Prophet V softsynth live on tour” said Muse guitar tech Chris Whitemyer, ”but still be able to move around the stage without any restrictions, I knew we had to find a new kind of solution that would take the computer out of the picture.”

Chris Whitemyer was aware of Swedish music tech company MIND Music Labs and how their ELK MusicOS could run existing plugins and instruments on hardware. Thinking MIND might be the missing piece of the puzzle he approached them at the 2019 NAMM Show. Together with Fishman and Arturia, a first meeting was held in the MIND Music Labs booth on the show floor. That meeting, which took place just a few weeks before the start of Muse’s 2019 World Tour, kicked off several hectic weeks resulting in the three companies producing a new kind of guitar just in time for the tour’s first date in Houston, TX.

“Going to that first meeting at NAMM I didn’t know what to expect,” said Fishman founder and president Larry Fishman, “but as soon as we plugged in the guitar with our TriplePlay system in the Powered by ELK audio interface board, it was pretty clear that the Fishman and ELK systems would be compatible.”

What was clear after the first meeting was that the reliability of the Fishman TriplePlay MIDI Guitar Controller in combination with ELKs ability to run existing plugins inside the guitar could open up a new world for performers like Matt Bellamy. And with the tour just weeks away, a plan was hatched to get the system finalized and ready for use in the most demanding of conditions – a world tour of arenas and stadiums.

MIND Music Labs CEO Michele Benincaso commented “Getting three different companies to join forces on a special project like this does not happen very often, so this was truly special. To go from a first meeting at NAMM to a functioning system in just weeks was a mind-blowing achievement. It required the special expertise and focused efforts of all three companies to pull it off – I can still hardly believe we did.”

Only days after the closing of the NAMM Show, MIND Music Labs CTO Stefano Zambon flew to Fishman’s Andover, MA headquarters to figure out how to get a powered by ELK audio board inside a guitar, that not only plays well enough to satisfy a world class performer, but could also control the Arturia Prophet V at extremely low latency. In short, redefine the state of the art for synth guitars.

“To see one of our V Collection classic products like the Prophet V on Stage with Muse is very exciting,” said Arturia CEO Frédéric Brun, “The fact that it is that same plugin running in the guitar as you use in the studio really makes all the difference. I mean, Matt Bellamy even uses the same preset in the studio!”

On February 22nd, just 4 weeks after the first initial meeting at NAMM, MUSE went on stage in Houston in front of a jam-packed Toyota Center. Seven songs into the show Chris Whitemyer handed Matt Bellamy the new guitar for the song “The Dark Side”.

Chris added, “When all the guys got together to build this, we didn't tell Matt that a new guitar was going to be built or maybe not built. I just gave it to him for the first show and told him he could walk as far as he wanted on stage. He just said ‘Oh, Cool!’”
“I had no doubt in my mind it would work and it performed flawlessly. When I first got the guitar one week before the first show I tested it very thoroughly, leaving it on for four hours, turning it off and on fifty or more times, and jumping up and down with it and bouncing it off a mattress. It passed all the tests. The guitar is rock solid! Matt and I couldn’t be happier. It does everything I hoped it would and it’s on stage every night”

If you want to see this unique guitar in action it will be on MUSE’s Simulation Theory World Tour in the U.S. through May, then in Europe all summer and in South and Central America this fall.


Fishman - Industry leader in amplification, effects, and MIDI pickups for acoustic and electric instruments. Makers of the TriplePlay MIDI Guitar Controller.

Arturia - Specialist in the development of music software and hardware for professional and amateur musicians. Makers of the Prophet V synthesizer part of the V Collection.

MIND Music Labs - Develops technologies enabling a new generation of connected musical instruments. Makers of the ELK MusicOS.

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Synth Wizards Episode 7: Syntars, Keytars & Orphicas

Published on Jun 1, 2019 Syntaur

"Keyboardists have wanted to go portable for way longer than you might have thought! Come along with Syntaur’s Sam Mims as he chases the fascinating history of the keytar, or strap-on synthesizer, and talks to some of the people who made these inventions happen. And watch the Syntaur crew bring a smashed Roland keytar back to life!"

Synth Wizards 7 Behind the Scenes: Strawberry Fields on Tubon/Mellotron

Published on Jun 1, 2019 Syntaur

"Sam and Eddie show you how the Strawberry Fields Forever audio for Synth Wizards Episode 7 was created."

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Note the Moog Liberation contains the guts of the Realistic MG-1 made by Moog for Radio Shack.

NISSIN C-16 CUP NOODLE Sampler/Synth KEYTAR

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"NISSIN C-16 CUP NOODLE Digital Sampling Synthesizer

it's a special Keytar edition of CASIO SK-1 sampler

made very limited quantity as prize item in '80s

so not sold in anywhere those days

it has special hand grip and CUP NOODLE, DIGITAL SYNTHESIZER Logo

function is same as famous CASIO SK-1.

it's very hard to find even in Japan nowadays "

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FORMANTA RHYTHM NECK SOVIET USSR GUITAR KEYTAR UDS DRUM MACHINE TR

Published on May 12, 2019 GLvintageSHOP

Yamaha sonogenic Keytar 「SHS-500」 INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEO

Published on May 6, 2019 Yamaha Corporation

They nailed my playing technique at 1:01 and again at 1:13 after a few drinks.

"sonogenic Keytar 「SHS-500」 INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEO

1. JAM FUNCTION
- Play along with your favorite songs

2. INSTRUMENT VOICES AND EFFECTS
- Choose one of 30 voices plus effects

3. MIDI CONNECTIONS
- Connect to a computer or smart device , MIDI device"

Also worth a watch: NAMM 2019 Yamaha Sonogenic Keytar

FORMANTA RHYTHM NECK SOVIET USSR GUITAR KEYTAR UDS DRUM MACHINE TR

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Published on May 1, 2019 GLvintageSHOP

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"The unit has one connection plug - Soviet 5DIN. It's used as an addition to FORMANTA UDS drum sets. MINT condition, comes in original packing with shoulder stripe and connection cable.
It has 7 buttons on the front side and 2 on the back. According to manual while tapping the "SPHERIC THING" the unit sends trigger commands to the control module. Probably it can trigger any drum machine or kinda.

The unit has a velocity-sensitive piezo trigger pad under sphere and nine red knobs:
seven on the front for choosing which drum sound you wanted to trigger from the synth and two back knobs for switching "preset" or "synth" sound mode on the synthesizer."

Working condition.

MADE IN USSR"

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NISSIN C-16 CUP NOODLE Sampler/Synth KEYTAR

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Cup Noodle keytar for you! It should have a cup holder for your cup noodle.

"NISSIN C-16 CUP NOODLE Digital Sampler/Synth Keytar!
special Prize model of CASIO SK-1 !
comes with original strap,manual,BOX.
VINTAGE 80's SUPER RARE!"

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Dual Game Boy Chiptune Keytar - Wintergatan Cover (Starmachine 2000)

Published on Apr 4, 2019 Theremin Hero

A new double design for the chiptune keytar. Check out the original here:
Game of Thrones Remix on NESKeytar (8-bit)
Star Trek TNG Theme on NESKeytar (Rough Recording)

"Dual Neck, Dual Game Boy Chiptune Keytar with 3D printed body. We call it "The Blade" for short.
The music is a chiptune cover of Starmachine 2000 by Wintergatan

The team behind the invention:
Sam Wray / 2xAA - https://wray.pro
Siddharth Vadgama - https://siddv.net
Greig / Theremin Hero - https://patreon.com/thereminhero"

KORG RK-100 Red Keytar Controller SN 002530

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"KORG RK-100 VERY RARE original VINTAGE keytar remote controller for synthesizers, expanders etc."

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New Video from Mario Mathy - "Liberty"

Published on Feb 10, 2019 Lindsey Tuteleers

Follow-up to Mario Mathy's Jumping Dance (don't miss it if you haven't seen it).

And an image sent my way via Mario. That's him on the right with the Casio AZ-1 keytar. On his right is a Casio rep with a VL-Tone VL-5.

Update: a few more images added below.

These first two are from this article (Googlish here).

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Moog Liberation Keytar

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"Refurbished by professional

All electrolytic capacitors and regulator IC have been replaced.
All cables and connectors connecting the body and the interface unit have been replaced with new ones.
The body has been re-painted.
The LED of main unit has been replaced with blue LED.

In addition, the following operations are being carried out.
Contact revival of the front switches
Contact revival of the volumes
Contact revival of the terminals
Matte black paint of screws

MIDI is not installed.
It takes 3 to 5 minutes for the sound to stabilize.

Comes with:
Interface (Power supply) unit
Connecting cable (about 9 m)
Leather strap
Instruction manual (English)"

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Eurorack Keytar?

Well this is a fun way to play your modular! @takumi_ogata strumming the Chance #QuBit pic.twitter.com/JnoStFUOeo

— Qu-Bit (@qubitelectronix) February 7, 2019

Update: Now on YouTube with additional details:

Eurorack Guitar

Published on Feb 7, 2019 Takumi Ogata

Follow-up to this post.

"DIY plucking module and strip sensor module.

Signal Flow
1. pitched sawtooth wave outputted by the strip sensor module
2. VCA (CV from the plucking module for volume)
3. Rings (CV from Chance for subtle modulation)
4. DAW"