YMO's Synth Drum kit and Mr. Hideki Matsutake

Published on Nov 21, 2014 karenevil

"Mr. Hideki Matsutake tries the setup of YMO's synthesizer drum kit (1979) for the exhibition. He was a member of YMO's world tour in 1979, as a synthesizer programmer (for Moog modular and Roland MC8, etc).
Shot by ZOOM Q4 at Gakki Fair 2014 (Musical instruments Fair) in Japan."

ULT-Sound DS-4 behind him. Not sure what he's tweaking. Moog modular in the background.

Update via Stephen Teller in the comments: "He's tweaking the Syndrum Quad by Pollard"

Rydeen

YouTube via tm19661015

"データを整理してたらこんなん出てきました。アップするつもりで撮ったのではありませんが・・・アップしました。下手糞でごめーんね。ちなみにPCは
penⅢで超古いです 現在はcore i7-920でProphet-600/YAMAHA CS-10/MOTU MIDI Exp128/BEHRINGERなどの機材も増えました。"

And the original:

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YMO - Solid State Survivor (cover)

YouTube via EnvelopeGenerator | September 29, 2010

"Blank tongues ablaze!

Here's a fancy version of Solid State Survivor (ソリッド・ステイト・サヴァイヴァー) by Yellow Magic Orchestra, complete with a very silly video of greenscreen, some of my film photos, Super 8 footage, video feedback and a few shots of YMO I found on Google Images.

This is also my first HD video despite the fact that I still don't have an HD camera - the video clips are stitched together from multiple SD shots (if you look closely at the first shot you can see the seams). This is also probably going to be the last video I make for a while because I'm going to university next week, so enjoy - it could possibly be the last ever Envelope Generator production!

Song by Yukihiro Takahashi with lyrics by Chris Mosdell."

YMO-RYDEEN-(cover)

Published on Jun 11, 2017 Tosh Ara
Update: Re-Published on Apr 14, 2018

Re-Published on Oct 10, 2017 Tosh Ara

"ピッチを修正しました(^^;)"

"Fixed the pitch (^ ^;)"

Two KORG ARP Odysseys & DSI Prophet-6 & Prophet '08.


And the original:

YMO - Rydeen (Budokan 1980)

Uploaded on Dec 1, 2006

music by Yukihiro Takahashi
"Yellow Magic Orchestra World Tour '80 From Tokio To Tokyo"
Live at Budokan (Dec.27,1980)

Korg MonoPoly Demo & YMO Day Tripper

YouTube via naokidel | January 29, 2009

"最近、オークションで手に入れました。
さすがに４VCOで、太い音が出ます。
クロスモジュレーションも強烈です。"

Googlish:
"Recently, I got at auction.
4VCO Indeed, I get the deep sound.
Cross-modulation is strong too."

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Synthe Club Japan Magazine Book 1983 w/ YMO

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via this auction

BTW, if you are not familiar with YMO, see here.

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Roland SH-32 synthesizer/ YMO 東風 and technopolis / debussy and bach

Published on Feb 2, 2020 HAGIWO modular synthesizer channel

"My first time impression.

0:00 東風(tong poo)/yellow magic orchestra
0:25 Air on the G string BWV1068/ J.S.Bach
1:19 technopolis/yellow magic orchestra
2:08 Clair de Lune/Debussy
2:39 八重の桜/坂本龍一(ryuichi sakamoto)
3:13 黄土高原/坂本龍一(ryuichi sakamoto)
3:47 behind the mask / michael jackson or YMO or ric clapton

Analog model synthesizer."

YMO Rydeen Cover on Synth1

Click here for a pretty amazing cover of YMO's Rydeen done with Ichiro Toda's free VST Synth1. Scroll down for the link when you get there. You can get the VST here.

via Elhardt on AH.

The Beatles YMO - Day Tripper - Korg DS-10

Published on Sep 13, 2014

The Beatles Day Tripper
arranged by YMO
KORG DS-10 cover

Nintendo 3DS on eBay | Nintendo 3DS on Amazon
DS-10 on eBay | DS-10 on Amazon

Performance Music Systems SYNTAR Turns 40

it’s been 40 years since the Performance Music Systems SYNTAR was introduced at the #namm show in #1980 by george mattson - bob #moog even got to try it out #keytar #namm2020 #eml #analog #synthesizer #ymo #rydeen #cover pic.twitter.com/mXVY8ypfP8

— sdf (@sdf_pubnix) January 19, 2020

via @sdf_pubnix

"it’s been 40 years since the Performance Music Systems SYNTAR was introduced at the #namm show in #1980 by george mattson - bob #moog even got to try it out #keytar #namm2020 #eml #analog #synthesizer #ymo #rydeen #cover"

Check out previous posts featuring the Syntar here.

The Syntar was the first self-contained synthesizer keytar. Before the Syntar, keytars were controllers. The Syntar was created by George Mattson of Mattson Mini Modular. There was a keyboardless version of the Syntar called the SWAN, or Syntar Without a Neck. A SWAN II was announced back in 2018, under development with Division 6.

Update: you can find a great article on the Syntar at Carbon111.com here, and an interview I did with George Mattson way back in 2006 here.

MATSUTAKE / YMO CLICK

YouTube via moog3p.

Be sure to check out these posts for more YMO. See this post.
"Hideki Matsutake is a Japanese composer, arranger, and computer programmer.He is a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra in the fourth.Isao Tomita is his mentor."

YMO - The End of Asia (Live)

YouTube via hardy2006us. Title link takes you to more.

Previous YMO Posts.

YMO - Firecracker (Budokan 1980)

YouTube via tfgts10 | Dec 7, 2006 |
I spy and EMU modular.
"music by Martin Denny
"Yellow Magic Orchestra World Tour '80 From Tokio To Tokyo"
Live at Budokan (Dec.27,1980)

a.k.a. "Computer Games" in U.S.


Jennifer Lopez "I'm Real""

Thanks goes to @Chris_Randall for this one.

Update: via the world of next tuesday in the comments: "Actually "Computer Games - Theme from The Circus" is the intro piece before "Firecracker". It's made up of "The Circus" arcade game sounds which then segue without a break into "Firecracker". Though I'm thinking it's likely that some non-Japanese singles might combine the two as "Computer Games" rather than name the single "Firecracker" or use a longer title. In Japan it wasn't a single.

Also the New York Post made the claim that Mariah Carey was working on a track featuring YMO's riff as a loop only to discover J-Lo had just completed her song with the same riff and that it might have precipitated her big breakdown back then."

YMO Rydeen 松武秀樹氏 Niceボケ

YouTube via 645sh505. Anyone know if YMO ever used any Japanese synths?
See the comments in this post for updates.

YMO The End of Asia(Rehearsal)

Published on Aug 12, 2016 Tosh Ara

"YMOコピバンリハ収録です。いよいよコピバン準備始めました。(^ ^)
この他に数曲ですが、時間をかけて準備したいと思います！"

Ult Sound DS-4 Toyo Gakki Drum Synthesizer Demo

Published on Nov 26, 2013 kanallı kanal·36 videos

Googlish description further below.

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坂本美雨 - CUE (YMO Cover)

YouTube Uploaded by tsukucoma on Jul 4, 2011

"シンセサイザー：松武秀樹・相沢舞・飯野賢治
【ニコ生】松武秀樹・相沢舞の『テクノスクール』
http://www.music-airport.com/techno-school/"

Roland synths & Moog modular.

Update via the world of next tuesday in the comments: "that's Miu Sakamoto, Ryuichi's daughter singing and Hideki (Logic System) Matsutake with the Moog he played with YMO."

AtomoSynth Krakken YMO Rydeen cover

YouTube via atomolab | February 16, 2011 |

"Hello, it is my version of YMO Rydeen played on the AtomoSynth Krakken keyboard analog synthesizer."

And a KORG KAOSSillator on the side.

Kirin Lager Meets YMO in Akira Kurosawa's Dreams

Click image to launch video. Title link takes you to the Kirin Promo site with a very nice image of YMO.

DSI Prophet12 How to make YMO sound

Published on Nov 4, 2013 nicolai maruhama·93 videos

"I tried to make poly moog sound that YMO prof. Sakamoto used to use it.
Prophet 12 has a lot of special functions.
Especially ｔhe oscillator sound is good for vintage strings!

If you are not satisfied with your virtual analog synth to make vintage strings sound, I recommend to use Prophet 12 to you!!

That's really great and maniac sound.
I really LOVE this machine.

坂本教授が使ってたPolymoogのサウンドに挑戦しました。
Prophet12は、特殊な機能が沢山あり、特にオシレータがヴィンテージ系のスト­リングスサウンドにもってこい！

もしヴィンテージ系のストリングスサウンドを作るのに手持ちのヴァーチャルアナログシ­ンセで満足できなかったら、Prophet12をお勧めしまする！！

まじですごいマニアなサウンドですよん、ぼくはこのマシンLoveです。

nicolai maruhama"

Dave Smith Prophet 12s on eBay