The Yamaha HX1

Click here for a site dedicated to the Yamaha HX1, including samples, sent my way via Loscha. The site also includes the following modules: CVS-10, AVS-10, MDR-2/3/4/10, FVX-1, AVX-1, VEX-1/VEX-10, MBS-10 and more.

"The Yamaha HX is an electronic organ (musical instrument with keyboards) usually refered as an Electone - electronic tone (sound) generator. It is used not only for playing church pieces as with traditional organ or harmonium, but also for contemporary music such as jazz, rock etc. along with auto accompaniment and rhythm patterns. The first HX was introduced in 1987 and was the first electone equiped with Yamaha's new AWM tone generator (sampeled acoustinc sound). (EL and AR series are almost entirely AWM based).

The HX has warm sounds and beutiful figure (as can be seen in the Modular page). The tone generators of that series supported FM (Frequant Modulation),WM (Wave Memory - sampled organ sounds) and AWM (Advenced Wave Memory - sampled acoustinc sounds). As far as I know, only the HX (and FVX-1) series had 8/16 operatores for each FM sound, the famouse Yamaha DX-7 and SY-77 had only 6 operatores for each FM/AFM element. The HX has:
- 90 presets + 8 user (programmable) FM polyphonic voices (8 op. each),
- 54 presets + 6 user (programmable) FM monophonic voices (16 (!!) op. each),
- 16 presets + 16 user (programmable) WM polyphonic voices (Sampeled Drawbars),
- 5 presets AWM polyphonic voices (U/L keyboard),
- 5 presets AWM monophonic voices (bass),
- 60 Percussion AWM sounds."

Yamaha CVS-10 Synth Module Combination Voice Expander

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"Yamaha CVS-10 Synth Module Combination Voice Expander Rare Electone MIDI GM."

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"Bridge of promises" - on Yamaha HE-8

YouTube via organfairy

"This is a very early Jean Michel Jarre composition that seems to have two titles. Sometimes it is called "Blackbird" but I haven't been able to confirm what the real title is supposed to be.

Anyway I play it on the Yamaha HE-8 organ with CVS-10 expander, Roland Rhytm Arranger for the drum sounds, and Roland JX-8P for the 'fairy dust'."

Happy Halloween!

YouTube via organfairy.

Remember to click on the holiday label below for more Halloween posts. If you have 'em, send 'em in.
"A while ago I experimented with making some mildly scary music. And I decided to make a little video to go with it. The weird colours that some of the pictures have is a result of using a set of coloured filters that I bought many years ago to my old film camera. But I thought they suited the purpose - after all halloween is a quite colourfull and at the same time dark occation.

The music is played on Rhytm Ace drum machine, Yamaha HE-8 organ with CVS-10 expander, Roland JX-8P synthesizer and the little Music Time 300 toy keyboard."

A melody about a disaster.

YouTube Uploaded by organfairy on Apr 26, 2011

"Sorry for being a bit melodramatic here. But some years ago I suddenly felt the urge to make a melody with a disaster theme after watching a documentary called "Life after people". And considering what happened 25 years ago today (26th of April) I think the time is right for uploading this.

The music is played on Yamaha HE-8 organ with CVS-10 expander, Korg Rhythm 55 drum machine and Roland JX-8P synthesizer. The soundeffects at the beginning and end is recorded with my little digital camera and modified in Cool Edit Pro 2.0."