Selected Tracks From Synthesizers Demos Vol​.​1

Published on Dec 4, 2018 Nacho Marty Meyer

high-quality download: https://nacho80.bandcamp.com/album/se...

01. Yamaha TX216 - TF1 Dream
02. Ensoniq ESQ-M - HARD_CEM3379
03. Kawai XS-1 - MAPA_3
04. Casio CZ-5000 - Adrenalynn_7
05. Roland MT-100 - Orange Buildings
06. E-MU Vintage Keys - Hidden People
07. Yamaha FB-01 - Peleadores
08. Roland MKS-70 - ETIONS
09. Kawai K4r - Factory Outside
10. Kawai 100F - The Arabian Dude

Selected Tracks From Synthesizers Demos Vol.2

Published on Dec 8, 2018

Published on Dec 8, 2018 Nacho Marty Meyer

high-quality download: https://nacho80.bandcamp.com/album/se...

01. Commodore 64 - SID_B 00:00
02. Oberheim Matrix-1000 - Her Bodas 00:26
03. Casio CZ-5000 - Lucy en el telo con amantes 8:13
04. Yamaha FB-01 - Dubbian Dub 10:04
05. Roland MKS-70 - Oceanfront 14:28
06. Yamaha TX216 - Looking For Robox 17:29
07. Roland M-VS1 - Room 5_1979 22:21
08. Kawai XD-5 - Mapa Incorrecto 25:06
09. Yamaha TG33 - Afternoon Road Show 27:00
10. Korg EX-800 & AKAI S2000 - Octakorg 29:03
11. Roland MKS-70 - Telefunk70 31:21
12. Roland JV-1080 - Gaming The Ghetto 34:03

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NYZ - NTE GDN => Behind the scenes with the Yamaha FB-01

Photo Credit: Calum Gunn * all other pix by NYZ *

"The new NYZ - NTE GDN tape on Conditional is just out [limited edition of 50 copies]! Matrix heard on the synth grapevine that it heavily featured the Yamaha FB-01 operating in a secret sysex mode, so he asked me if I'd write a little about how it was used. You can check the album out on the Conditional Bandcamp page here, release date July 6th =>

and have a listen while reading. Its also available from Boomkat [with track previews] =>

Boomkat review => "Blinding new batch of synth and computer music chaos from Dave Burraston’s cultishly regarded NYZ. With such a wild variation to his purist approach it’s perhaps silly to draw comparisons or contrasts, but these are patently some of NYZ’s sweeter treats, such as the curdled harmonics of ‘ARTOFNYZbitcompander’ and the funky lil’ vamps of ‘RLD syncs’ for more insatiable and curious listeners. In other words it’s fucking ace!"

and Norman Records =>

Norman Records review => "9/10 Conditional unleash this beautifully wild and playful tape from David Burraston aka NYZ. Here he harnesses the spectrum splitting potential of John Chowning’s FM synthesis to birth and animate ludicrously cute and cuddly synthetic creatures that come to life before our very ears. What even are these little mutant alien lifeforms? Where is this strange place in which they dwell?

The overall experience of imbibing these sounds is a lot like an experience I once had watching Teletubbies on acid, where I thought the little blighters were actually communicating directly to me. This world NYZ has created and its inhabitants are clearly fantasy, but it’s so brilliantly, vividly realised and skillfully executed that if you just let go of the shackles of reality and submit yourself, it can be an authentic place where these things live and breathe, eat and sleep and go through their life cycle. We get to hang out with them as they speak, sing, laugh and cry. I’d much rather hang out with these chirpy little fellows because humans are the absolute worst. For music to get a miserable, misanthropic, curmudgeon bastard like me to grin like a child holding a cookie the size of its head is quite an achievement.

This tape is just so much fun - it's like a little utopia for the most part, but there are occasional darker moments - at times it feels like the big bad wolf or some kind of predator is lurking with intent to gobble up our little friends. Burraston’s custom-built MANIAC Cellular Automata Sequencer is instrumental in giving life to these sounds - a tool that gives this work a unique voice and an unpredictable energy that seems to organically flow through his machines. This music is most certainly unconventional even by avant-garde standards, and although on the surface is definitely weird and kinda eccentric, it taps into something deeper. Like Victor Frankenstein’s unorthodox scientific experiment in Mary Shelley's novel where scientist becomes an architect of life. This place, it's lifeforms and their language seems bewilderingly genuine - a sonic virtual reality -- a hybrid analogue/digital world where what is “real” and synthetic is blurred."


So why am I interested in the strange and esoteric Yamaha FB-01, and what are these secret sysex codes? Well, first up its a nice little 8 voice FM synth, and I'm well known for being a bit obsessed with FM [see the NYZ - DRN4 Declassified article]. Secondly, its a kind of in-between synth, arriving after the first 4 operator synths, such the DX21, but before the TX81Z which featured a full microtonal tuning table. Its this inbetweeness that really interested me, and its really the only first gen sine wave only 4op that can be micro-tuned, albeit in a very roundabout way via some secret sysex codes.

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Yamaha FB-01 | A Cult Classic!

video by Espen Kraft

"Yamaha FB-01 from 1986. By many considered cheap and bad, but it's the opposite. Just like the TX81Z, it has the ability to really cut through a track, especially in the important mid frequencies.

The first multi timbral sound module from Yamaha at the time, (the TX816 can be considered multi timbral though) and flexible in how you wanted to set up the midi channels and polyphony, but then the Roland MT-32 came along and blew this out of the water and the FB-01 was discontinued just the year after, in 1987. However.....
.....In the years to come afterwards, this little module has gained somewhat of a cult following. Websites dedicated to its worship came along and different genres within synth music started using it and modding it. Mods to reduce the noise, mods to increase the output gain and other stuff.

I'm using the FB-01 editor you can find here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/fb01...
Some of the patches I use in the video can be found here: http://mmmazes.blogspot.com/2010/05/f...

The demo track is only FB-01 except for the drums. All the sounds are either factory presets or sounds found through the banks above.

Cheaper than a TX81Z, but for how long?"

Yamaha FB-01 Editor for Windows

Yamaha FB-01 Editor for Windows - Explained

Published on Jan 11, 2014 midierror·63 videos

"A summary of the FB-01 editor I made using Max/MSP."


Published on Jan 11, 2014

Yamaha FB-01s on eBay (image below via this auction).  It's great to see a dedicated editor for the FB-01.

Yamaha FB-01 patch editing with Patch Base

Published on Nov 30, 2016 Coffeeshopped

"Yamaha FB-01 patch editing with Patch Base on iPad. Patch Base is a full-featured patch editor and librarian for new and vintage synthesizers.

Patch Base is used for all patch editing in the video.
The Yamaha FB-01 is being sequenced by Little MIDI Machine app on the iPad.
The iPad is connected to the FB-01 with the iConnectMIDI1"

iTunes:
Patch Base - Coffeeshopped LLC

YAMAHA FB-01 Factory Presets demo

YouTube Uploaded by wolfgangSvukan on Apr 23, 2011

"Yamaha FB-01 synthesizer

This is a factory presets from underrated Yamaha FB-01. Still sound very cool. Enjoy!

All sounds are recorded directly from FB-01 to EMU Sound Card, without any FX or signal processing.

Specifications:
4 Operator FM module
8 voices
8 part multitimbral
240 factory presets (5 banks x 48)
96 user presets (2 banks x 48)
2 outs
MIDI in/out/thru

www.vukan.net"

YAMAHA FB-01 (1986) Demos by Nacho Marty Meyer

Published on Dec 4, 2012 Nacho Marty Meyer

https://soundcloud.com/nacho-marty

YAMAHA FB-01 (1986) Part 2

Published on May 27, 2017

"Yamaha FB-01 processed (only a few times) with the Yamaha REX50 (some reverb, chorus, flanger, compressor, etc.)"

FIELD KIT FX, FIELD KIT, VOLCA BASS, YAMAHA FB-01

Published on Mar 9, 2018 KOMA Elektronik

"Wouter has been working on his 2018 setup lately, which consists out of a Field Kit, a Korg Volca with MIDI Out mod controlling a Yamaha FB-01 soundmodule and a Field Kit FX for all the effects. In this video the Yamaha FB-01 is ran through the Frequency Shifter and the Aux from the Field Kit runs through the Digital Delay and 4ch mixer on the Field Kit FX! So many possibilities!"

FB-01 Trials

All Yamaha FB-01. "The sounds at the end are what you get if you feed it too much sysex at once!"

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Side note: the FB-01 shares the same sound engine as the CX5M. See this post. You can find additional posts featuring the FB-01 here and here. Unfortunately, Blogger treats dashes differently, so FB-01 and FB01 bring up different results. Go Blogger! :)

FB-01 Vs MT-32 | History and Combat

video upload by Espen Kraft

"Yamaha FB-01 from 1986 and Roland MT-32 from 1987. Two modules that over time has gained a cult classic status. For different reasons. Before any of them became that, they were 2 multi timbral sound modules that fought for the money of the happy amateur musician in the mid-to late 80s.

00:00 Intro
00:34 Rumours about the MT-32
01:00 The D-50 is released
01:26 The MT-32
02:24 The FB-01
04:40 Sound comparison
10:42 Gaming
11:45 Outro/Conclusion

The MT-32 had 32 voices of polyphony and had a simplified D-50 sound, effects and drums. The Polyphony came with one "downside", if the voices were made up of the maximum of 4 partials, the total polyphony was only 8 voices. The voices/partials were dynamically allocated so you didn't have to keep track of the numbers though.
The FB-01 has a total polyphony of 8 voices, but you can distribute those as you wish in a quite flexible way. 8 mono voices over 8 different midi channels was very new in 1986.
None of the modules made it possible to edit sounds on the front panel, so you needed a sysex editor for that."

KORG DS-8 voice polyphonic FM synthesizer

via this auction

"KORG DS-8 is an 8-voice polyphonic FM synthesizer. KORG used YAMAHA FB-01 / DX21's FM synthesis engine, and fashioned it with a unique interface that makes it look like a Virtual Analog synthesizer

The DS-8 is Korg's contender among synths like the Roland D-50 and Yamaha DX7. It is a digital FM synthesizer with 4-operators per voice, 8 voices of polyphony and 8 parts multitimbrality. It's good for percussive, strange effect noises and such because its sound (similar to the DX7) is so unique. It has some digital effects such as chorus, flange, delay and analog-like controls for modulators, envelopes and the LFO. A joystick provides control of modulation and pitch bending. It also has a performance section for quick edits on the fly using (3) real-time sliders to control timbre, EG1 and EG2. A nice alternative to the common DX-7

The Korg DS-8 is a 61-key FM synthesizer produced by Korg in 1987. It is a 4-operator 8-voice, 8-part-multitimbral synthesizer with a 61-note keyboard that has velocity and aftertouch sensitivity. It has no filter and only the basic delay, chorus, flanger, and double effects. It was released to compete against synthesizers such as the Yamaha DX7 and TX81Z. At the time, Yamaha probably didn’t care that they had a competitor in the FM synthesis arena – After all, Korg licensed the technology from them.

Korg released the DS-8 in 1986 to compete with the Yamaha DX7. The DS-8 is a FM synth which uses the same 4 operator synth engine as in the Yamaha 4 op synths like the DX21 and TX81Z. However, the DS-8 included a few digital effects such as chorus, flange, delay and also analog-like controls for modulators and envelopes. The DS-8 features 8 voices of polyphony and is 8 parts multi timbrel, a 5 octave 61 note velocity and aftertouch keyboard and it stores 100 programs and 10 combinations. The first time we heard the word "combis".

In 1987 Korg followed up the DS-8 with the release of the Korg 707. A four octave keyboard that also included strap on hooks so you could play it guitar style. Probably one of the first remote keyboard controllers that I can think of. The synth engine is similar to the DS-8 without the on-board effects. As in most FM synths, the DS-8 and Korg 707 are good at producing Basses, E-Pianos, Synths and Effects so we tried to focus on those types of sounds in putting together our collection

The Korg DS-8 is an expandable FM synthesizer released by KORG in 1986 which used the Yamaha FB-01 FM synthesis engine with 4 sine wave oscillators. 61 Keys in length with both initial and aftertouch capabilities it stores up to 100 programs and 10 combinations. At $1400 RRP the DS-8 was a revolutionary, cheap and affordable product for its time.

The DS-8 features one joystick controller for bending pitch, timbre and modulation speed, 1 card slot for the MCR-01, MCR-02 and MCR-03 KORG RAM Cards, MIDI IN/OUT/THRU jacks, a damper pedal, assignable pedal, assignable switch, program up pedal, 1 balance slider, four keyboard modes (Single, Layer, Double and Multi) and two slider controls which indicate the ability to edit the 2 oscillators from fast to slow. The three editable banks shown on the right side of the board (Function, Voice Parameter and Combi Parameter) provide multiple ways in which the user can edit the programs, banks and patches."

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Kawai K1 & Yamaha FB-01 Sample Pack for Prophet X and SF2

video upload by Espen Kraft

"A new patch bank for the Prophet X. Also available in the SF2 format for Logic and the Tal Sampler.
50 multi-samples from the Kawai K1 and Yamaha FB-01. Great sounds to add texture and depth to your music and productions.

The samples were originally meant for MY Prophet X, for my live needs. A way of having all my vintage synths in one keyboard when doing live gigs doing MY own songs as faithful as possible to my albums.
Every sample in here has been recorded by me personally and sounds exactly how I want them to sound. They've all been recorded through the Yamaha DMP7 digital mixer for extra mojo.
Many of the samples are velocity layered multi samples, some upwards of 30-50 samples per set.
Be aware that this pack is the multi-samples only.
IMPORTANT info for Prophet X users: This sample user add-on pack is imported like this : px/u01

If you want to purchase this bank, please send me an email and I'll give you the download details.
Please specify if you want the Prophet X or SF2 bank. They cost the same.

My CONTACT email address is this: espenkraft69@gmail.com
Price is $15 USD or €15 Euros if that's your preferred currency. PayPal only. * The above email is NOT the one to use for payment. That will be given upon ordering.

If you haven't already bought my big epic Prophet X sample- and patch bank from before, I'll be happy to offer both that AND this new one in a bundled price of $40 USD (or €40 Euros) combined. Let me know in the email."

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Yamaha FB-01 Multi-Timbral MIDI FM Synth SN 14973

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via this auction

Check out the just released NYZ - NTE GDN => Behind the scenes with the Yamaha FB-01 for what an FB-01 can sound like.

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Yamaha FB-01 Demo

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YouTube Published on May 30, 2012 by anode8

"Released in All but one of the sounds used in the video are factory presets. I only used sounds recorded in mono from the FB-01 into Pro Tools. I have not applied any additional effects, only adjusted levels and panning.

Patches Used:
-ElectDr
-SnareD2
-SolBass
-Timpani
-Racing
-SynClav4
-COrgan2
-NewEP4
-Custom patch based on modified Harp"

Yamaha FB-01s on eBay

YAMAHA FB-01 !!!ACID DEMO!!!

Published on Sep 16, 2013 Leoš Hort·23 videos

"all sounds come straight from Yamaha FB-01, once in a while theres a bit of echo.
http://hrtl.bandcamp.com/"

YAMAHA FB-01 FM synthesizer DX7 TX81z volca opsix

video upload by KAI neutrino

KORG volca fm も
使いこなしていないのに
KORG volca fm2
¥19380税込
YAMAHA FB-01
49,800 円(税抜)
があるので我慢、、、

ELKA PM-13 MIDI Basspedals

YouTube via hilltree. Note the audio is the Yamaha FB-01
"Short test of my Elka PM 13 Bass pedals version B.
This version has a reset button and a different programming than version A
The MIDI pedals are controlling a cheap Yamaha FB-01 Synthesizer module.
Sorry for the bad vid/audio sync.
A short manual for download and more at www.groenewoudnet.nl"

FB01 custom sounds example

YouTube Uploaded by alexmauer on Mar 14, 2010

"This is a demonstration of the custom sounds I made for my Yamaha FB-01 using the Atari ST program "Caged Artist FB01 Editor". As you can see... its possible create drum sounds similar to what you'd hear on a drum synth, as well as create typical FM sounds... and even a very clear sounding square wave. I am sure someone will comment with "this sounds like Sega Genesis" and I agree mostly.

PS - there are no external effects applied... not that it sounds like there are"

FB01 custom drums (analog)

Uploaded by alexmauer on Mar 28, 2010

"These are custom sounds created using the "Caged Artist" Atari-ST editor for the Yamaha FB-01. Specifically this demo showcases analog drum machine type sounds. If you ask me, these sounds sound better than a Korg Electribe drum synth."

YAMAHA FB-01 synth PAIR in factory rack chassis

via this auction

"This is a PAIR of Yamaha FB-01 synthesizers nested in a rare factory rack enclosure designed to house the two units."

FM40P mkIII by NYZ

"Originally released January 17, 2022 available as limited physical edition CDr & name your price abridged digital on Psøma Psi Phi => pspsph.bandcamp.com/album/fm40p-mkiii

Unabridged digital only edition.

https://noyzelab.bandcamp.com/album/fm40p-mkiii

'In a third volume of his ongoing FM40P series of recordings, Dave Burraston continues to explore a myriad of tangents and timbres within the Yamaha V50, TX81Z and FB-01 machines - all of them uniquely apart from one another, their commonality being their identities as four-operator digital FM synthesizers. FM synthesis is well known for both its ability to convey otherwise impossible sounds and its general unapproachability as pure programming and sound design. Through this lens of context, Burraston's ability to direct these machines towards unforeseen and inexplicable pathways says much about the rarity of recordings like these. On a deeper level, Burraston is perhaps always testing, measuring, adjusting and analyzing, interacting with synthesis and its many vessels. Acting with the interests of both musician and scientist, NYZ brings us always to fresh perspectives and sonic locations that feel as if they are entirely new, often alien, but never predictable or repetitive. It's a lot to consider, as music and also as concept, but at the end of the day, you can always count on NYZ recordings for their utterly uncompromising sense of displacement and dizzying enchantment.'

released January 17, 2022

Generated during various sessions on 1-3 Jan 2021, 24 Feb 2021 and Oct 2013 at Noyzelab. Yamaha V50, Yamaha TX81Z, Yamaha FB-01 and MANIAC [custom sysex code for fractional note tuning/timings]. Mixed early Jan 2022 at Noyzelab in the hazement annex. Text and cover design by ABM&D. This is Psoma Psi Phi number NYZ-XVII. David Burraston and the Noyzelab logo appear courtesy of Noyzelab."