[HN Gopher] Yamaha PSR-60 Portasound
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Yamaha PSR-60 Portasound
Author : omnibrain
Score : 27 points
Date : 2021-07-02 16:19 UTC (1 days ago)
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| darig wrote:
| Sound crackly and distorted to me
| wazoox wrote:
| Amusingly, there's one real PSR-60 that someone abandoned in the
| trash shed in my residence. It's been there for a week, I think
| I'll grab it and see if something still works in there.
| tartoran wrote:
| Take it! Even if it has issues , if you restore it you could
| resell it for nice money.
| tweetle_beetle wrote:
| The market for discontinued hardware has become frankly
| ridiculous in the last ten or fifteen years. Budget models in
| ok condition which never even had much of a cult status are
| selling for many times what they originally cost.
| [deleted]
| klodolph wrote:
| The PSR line has always been great.
|
| A couple years ago, Yamaha released the PSS-A50, PSS-F30, and
| PSS-E30. They're three-octave keyboards with smaller keys...
| something that Yamaha hasn't had in their product lineup for a
| while. They compete with other miniature keyboards like the Casio
| SA-46, Alesis Melody 32, or other low-end keyboards.
|
| What I like about the PSS-A50 is that it makes it easy to grab a
| keyboard, go somewhere, and make music. The sounds are
| respectable and the key action is the same as the higher-end
| miniature keyboards like the Yamaha Reface series (and I've
| always liked Yamaha keyboard action). You can play the PSS-A50 by
| itself, or you can plug it into a computer, and it runs off AA
| batteries. The "low battery" indicator even works correctly with
| rechargeable NiMH batteries.
|
| The PSS series cost $100, which puts them above well above the
| price of their competitors. But they're just so nice, and they
| straddle the line really well between "make it fun to play" and
| "make it useful for musicians".
| tgv wrote:
| Doesn't work well. It stutters on Firefox, and doesn't produce
| sound on Safari and Chromium...
| megameter wrote:
| I often use plogue's Portasound VSTi for FM tones. It's actually
| quite a bit more powerful than a real one since it can layer
| sounds and do some additional modulation.
| kstrauser wrote:
| Wow! That was my very first non-piano keyboard.
|
| A few years later, I begged my parents for a synthesizer. I
| pictured a DX7, but on Christmas morning I opened a TX81Z and a
| MIDI cable. Downside: _enormous_ learning curve. Upside: no one
| told me that managing patches through the front menu, or learning
| the basics of FM synthesis, was hard. I picked up an awful lot of
| low-level technical information simply because I didn 't know I
| couldn't.
| danielrpa wrote:
| That's hilarious. A TX81Z won't work without something to send
| the MIDI data, so I suppose you already had a
| controller/computer? Kudos to your parents for figuring out it
| would work if that's the case, most parents aren't that
| technical :).
| kstrauser wrote:
| Yeah, I had the PSR-60. It was an _alright_ MIDI controller,
| except that it lacked velocity signals and only sent note-on,
| note-off. I think they probably talked to a decent salesman
| who listened to the situation and gave them a reasonable,
| decently affordable solution.
|
| I got an Amiga later and was very happy to use its MIDI to
| drive everything.
| ghusbands wrote:
| Do you mean an Atari ST? The Amiga didn't have built-in
| MIDI and the Atari did.
| kstrauser wrote:
| There were any number of $50 MIDI interfaces for the
| Amiga, and I had one. The ST had it built in, which was
| very cool, but they're not very complicated devices.
| amelius wrote:
| What do they mean by "Scanner: Internet Archive Python library
| 1.9.9"?
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