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Yamaha PSR-60 Portasound
- darig 5y agoSound crackly and distorted to me
- wazoox 5y agoAmusingly, 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 5y agoTake it! Even if it has issues , if you restore it you could resell it for nice money.
- tweetle_beetle 5y agoThe 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.
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- klodolph 5y agoThe 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 5y agoDoesn't work well. It stutters on Firefox, and doesn't produce sound on Safari and Chromium...
- kstrauser 5y agoWow! 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 5y agoThat'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 5y agoYeah, 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.
- megameter 5y agoI 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.
- amelius 5y agoWhat do they mean by "Scanner: Internet Archive Python library 1.9.9"?