I can only imagine how mind blowing this thing was in 1975!

Best example of one of these in action, IMHO, is Keith Emerson on Fanfare for the Common Man with ELP. Coincidentally, the track was recorded in Montreaux, Switzerland.

After 45 years, only Yamaha can live up to this sucker! Only a multi-manual keyboard or synthesizer can cut it. Newer synth engines might have the capacity to duplicate what’s in the GX1, but it takes more than just keyboard splitting to pull it off. It’s got to have an organ-inspired chassis.

@NuisanceMan

Жыл бұрын

Given that it's analog and has, I think, 36 oscillators, it's pretty hard to duplicate even now. Approximate, maybe.

@Shred_The_Weapon

Жыл бұрын

Thirty-six, @@NuisanceMan? I could’ve sworn each of the two 8-note sections only had a single oscillator per note! Thought the GX one only had 20 at the most!

4:59 hot damn I love the sound of this rhythm unit, I wonder if there was ever a standalone version of it or something really similar and if it was programmable

@takashi69z

2 жыл бұрын

I am not sure about a stand alone version, but I know the ELC,-02 allows one to program what ever rhythm you like or precise instrument.

this man is on fire! He just blasts off to space on this spaceship of a synth!

Amazing machine and great look back in time thanks for posting

What we can see here is a highly skilled musician using the preset FART TRUMPET. I'm lucky I got into synths in the mid-80s.

Emerson .Lake .Palmer live 1977 Montreal.. Keith R.I.P.

Abba‘s Benny Andersons favorite synth used on last 2 Abba records

@pogsquatch

2 жыл бұрын

Check out "ABBA - Summer Night City (ABBA In Concert - SVT" for a glorious Benny GX-1 intro.

@Taevas___

2 жыл бұрын

@@pogsquatch Or the opening song of their 1979 concerts called 'Gammal Fäbodpsalm'. Absolutely wonderful

This is wonderful historic video.

Of course he is happy, playing that thing.

This video - among others -- shows something that I call the "revolution of affordability" which made making music available to the masses. In the 70ies and 80ies both instruments (especially electronic), stage equipment and especially recording equipement where not affordable for amateurs or home musicians. This has changed totally. The "democratisation" of music has happened! THIS is the context in which we have to look at pioneer-instruments like the GX1. Yamaha has taken huge steps to create music technology - the GX1 is historical milestone. Today we can have it all. What great times (concerning music).

@russelblacker2562

2 жыл бұрын

yeah one would think that because of that more talented people can get heir hands on amazing instruments and compose lots of good music. However, the opposite is the case. Music is more primitive than ever before. Turns out a lot about music is actually a learned skill that takes years to develop.

@MrCrrispy

Жыл бұрын

This one was was not really affordable 😅

@NuisanceMan

Жыл бұрын

The fact remains, there isn't an affordable (or any) instrument being made now that's like the GX1. It's a one-of-a-kind deal and only maybe a few dozen were manufactured.

This would look sooooo nice in my living room! :)

War schon ein tolles Instrument und vorbildlich von Georges Fleury gespielt. Kompliment...

I feel sorry for the people who had to move that huge GX organ. Not only its price was impressive. Its weight was as well. At 951 kilos it weighed almost literally a ton !!! Yes: nine hundred and fifty one kilos. Not a typo.......

@filoudegris7970

6 ай бұрын

950 Kilo was Together With The 4 Speakers....i Think 🤔

@rot_studios

20 күн бұрын

@@filoudegris7970 yeah it's the total with the speakers... Still though! That's a LOT

That was cool. I like Yamahas.

George Fleury und Joy Flemming live in Duisburg: 1987......ein top Musiker.

@klausfehse2000

3 жыл бұрын

Leider nur viel zu wenig Gäste...

@emeraude.music.france6799

3 жыл бұрын

@@klausfehse2000 ja das stimmt, die Gäste wurden von Joy auch animiert auf die Bühne zu kommen. Das war in der Mercatorhalle Duisburg.

this dream machine is the mothership of all synths!

Wonderful machine. All that was missing velocity sensitivity! It's got such a warm, yet, buzzy character. I wonder what possessed Yamaha to make it, at such enormous cost. Clearly meant as a studio keyboard.

@Straydogger

7 ай бұрын

It did have velocity sensitivity. The two main keyboards have 61 (velocity sensitive!) keys each, and are supplemented by a smaller (3/4 scale, pressure sensitive).

Funky Georges = BOSS!!

bravo👍

Alten Kumpel George!

money well spent, I'd say... worth every penny

The song he demos sounds like and old Goodson-Todman game show theme.

@Shred_The_Weapon

4 жыл бұрын

Something other than Family Feud?

@cannedmusic

4 жыл бұрын

@@Shred_The_Weapon Match Game esque, music that's played during The Price Is Right

Wasn't this the first true polyphonic synth?

@lundsweden

Ай бұрын

Yes

This is how drum‘ bass started

what does he playing with his foot downside?

@kiskadar69

4 жыл бұрын

Bass.

@napomania

4 жыл бұрын

@@kiskadar69 that's a hard playing. really impressive

Der kann wenigstens spielen! Und das sehr gut! Heute programmieren sich viele ihre sequenzen irgendwie zusammen ohne zu wissen was sie da tun.....

7:55 のアッパーキーでベンドしているが、gx1に実装されているんだろうか?

@jmt4533

Жыл бұрын

リボンベンダーがあったんですね。

Das Instrument von Stevie Wonder, Keith Emerson (ELP) und Wolfgang Adrian (ART)

@davidw5993

Жыл бұрын

And John Paul Jones as well.

6:05 Like A Professor Reiko Kashiwagi !!

Ah, the heady and hirsute 1970s, when shirt lapels spanned continents.

Thought a kiss was looming at 0:3

@pepinillosazucarados6743

4 жыл бұрын

Mike Speed there was something going on between these two ...

スティービー・ワンダーさんは、GXかFXどっち弾いていたのかな?!

Stevie Wonder had one of those Yamaha's

@davcar23

4 жыл бұрын

Two of them, actually, one for each coast.

@nickpaddock6137

3 жыл бұрын

I think one of Steveies gx1’s is at madam Tussaud’s in Las Vegas

$56,000 from 1975 is about $275,978.96 of todays money.

@magmasunburst9331

4 жыл бұрын

I would much rather have a $250,000 synth than a $250,000 car.

@BUJU2007

4 жыл бұрын

@@magmasunburst9331 what about a house?

@rubenperalta3226

4 жыл бұрын

@@magmasunburst9331 want mine ?

Barbara Dennerlein dürfte ihn lieben und Georges Fleury wiederum sie 😂 .

Bontempi anyone? ;-))))

Das weckt die Erinnerung, das mein Vater lange damit geliebäugelt eine Dr. Böhm oder Wersi zu bauen. Ich bin froh das nie was draus wurde. Wer weiß was für ein Desaster das geworden wäre. Wir hatten alle keine Ahnung von Elektronik. Ich glaube nicht das es so einfach wie beworben war. Reichen ja schon kalte Lötstellen für "Spaß" bei der Fehlersuche. Na ja, der Klang war auch noch lange nicht der, von dem ich träumte. Das änderte sich erst als sich das Sampling auch im preiswerten Bereich durchsetzte. Und auch dann habe ich ewig gezögert mir ein digitales Klavier zu kaufen. Kann das wirklich mit einem richtigen mithalten? (Kann es, dennn ich bin nur Hobbyist, der keine Ansprüche wie ein Profi hat.) Dann aber kam ruckzuck noch eine kleine digitale Pfeifenorgel im Keyboardformat hinzu. Mit der früheren Mono- oder eingeschränkten Poliphonie hätte ich mich nie arrangieren können. Das gibt es am Klavier nicht. Natürlich kann die moderne Technik nicht so etwas wie die hier gezeigte ersetzen. (OK, wenn man alles incl. Zugreglerbedienung etc. nachbildet. Aber dann kann man gleich das analoge Original nehmen.) Macht nichts, denn die dazu passenden Musikrichtungen spiele ich ohnehin nicht.

@mrdali67

Жыл бұрын

Das selbsbau von Böhm und Wersi war wahnsinn.. Ich hatte auch den traum einer Wersi zu bauen. Viel später arfarte ich von ein Dänishe Wersi specialist wie viele selbst gebaute Orgeln Wersi reparierte. Ein Helios/Galaxis hatte etwa 30-40.000 componente..Eine kalte lötung und das ding ist tot und keiner amatur hatte ein chance das vehler zu finden. 😖

KÄÄÄÄSE!

@ralfjung4156

4 жыл бұрын

Troll !

@Bagatellamusic

4 жыл бұрын

@@ralfjung4156 No, just a cheese detector. :)

Und Heute, gibt es Die Sonic OAX 1

And in 2019, yamaha still the best

@hansmuller1980

4 жыл бұрын

du lügst doch wie gedruckt

@HalberKeks_

4 жыл бұрын

Hans Müller ich stimme Joseph zu 😋

Mum. Dad. Can i have one for x-mas. Pleeeeeease.

@tsitracommunications2884

4 жыл бұрын

Try Ebay

@napomania

4 жыл бұрын

@Yadgar ok i will bought one to you, but you have to rent a truck driver and a company to just move it ouside.... :-)

@francoisbasquin6974

4 жыл бұрын

40 built (some sources say up to 100), 13 known to went out of Japan, good luck finding one in a working state.

Ja, zehr gut! Used by bands like, ABBA, Led Zeppelin and ELP, and way ahead of its time.

The presenter looks like michael fassbender

@reginaldbowls7180

4 жыл бұрын

he's guilty

@MrKeys57

4 жыл бұрын

Lol

georges fleury

We are all lucky there was also "prog rock" and this instrument ended up rocking instead of doing elevator music ;)

He looks like King Charles X Gustav of Sweden

7:34

An electone Jeidi.

No Averguenze al Musico El Marins

Klang damals schon grausam.....

Er kuckt irgendwie sehr pickiert

Now for sale at a goodwill near you for a low price of 19.99 and it still sits for a month until I come along and buy it.

@sonicaids

4 жыл бұрын

I cry thinking about all the yamaha organs that died on the curbside or went to landfill.

only the privilege musician could afford it

töten würde ich für ne gx 1..

Keine Anschlagdynamik aber Horizontaltouch

Der Moderator ist doch ein sehr unprofessioneller Kasperl

@ralfjung4156

4 жыл бұрын

*Das WAR früher so !* Wie alt bist du ?

@RayyMusik

4 жыл бұрын

Ja, das war früher so. Das heißt aber nicht, dass diese betuliche Art einen vom Hocker gerissen hat.

@ralfjung4156

4 жыл бұрын

@Albert Rieder Wenn du 58 bist, dann sag mir doch mal, welche Live Sendung damals ub deb 70'er professionell war. Ich bin übrigens 52, und zwar wirklich 52.

@ralfjung4156

4 жыл бұрын

@Albert Rieder Ok, dann glaube ich dir das mal. Aber du hast mich falsch verstanden. Kottan ermittelt war eine Serie, die nach Drehbuch gedreht wurde. Ich aber habe von einer Live Übertragung gesprochen, die waren damals nun mal so. Ich denke da zum Beispiel an Die Pyramide, oder Dalli Dalli, oder am Laufenden Band, usw. Alles tolle Shows, keine Frage. Aber ken Produzent würde das heute so senden, was mir ehrlich gesagt sehr fehlt.

@texacomann

4 жыл бұрын

@@RayyMusik tuts heute immer noch nicht. Aber ja man kann ja in der heutigen zeit irgenwie alles studieren und lernen, so gibt es inzwischen für alles ein Förmchen wo alles reinpassen darf. Deshalb erscheint der Moderator auch insgesamt etwas merkwürdig aus dem Quark.

Not an Organ.

@napomania

4 жыл бұрын

organ emulator.. :-)

@Luthiart

4 жыл бұрын

@@napomania Synthesizer.

@simonbeck7446

3 жыл бұрын

Polyphonic analogue synthesiser. Solo manual: monophonic, 1 oscillator; Upper manual: 8-note polyphonic, 16 oscillators; Lower manual: 8-note polyphonic, 16 oscillators; Pedalboard: monophonic, 3 oscillators;; Analogue drum machine. No organ controls or voicings - 100% synthesiser.

„Orgel“ 😂😂😂

Wie so häufig erweist sich der Moderator als ein Schwachkopf.

Monsters of Organ War! 😎🤣Steel Drums waren dies in Trinidad! 👍👍 Ein Genos kann's heute besser, leichter und billiger! 🌈🤗 Good playin, horrible Sounds! Like Casio! 😘 The upper manuel springs like Boris Becker in a tennis match! Never mind, I fit a Wersi and a Dr. Boehm at this time.......much better! Much money for less sound!

@KlausDieterReese

6 ай бұрын

Man beachte doch mal wann das war!!!

My initial gut reaction: Ridiculous. One second later, after thinking Yamaha's legacy: This ridiculous organ-like ugliness paved the way for CS-80..

Ich kann nicht fassen, dass der Clown sich über dieses Instrument lustig macht…

Shitty advertisement-typed jazz...

Jedes Keyboard für 300 Euro klingt heute besser ;-)

@GroenalundMusic

4 жыл бұрын

Das Gegenteil ist richtig: kein heute gebauter Synthesizer kommt an diesen Sound ran. Die GX 1 kann weitaus mehr, als "Alleinunterhalterorgel". Man hört sie z.B. auf den drei letzten Abba-Alben sehr prominent.

@RayEttler

4 жыл бұрын

@@GroenalundMusic er holt nix raus, klar kann die mehr. aber nicht wirklich und bei aller analog liebe, ein 300 euro synth kann vieles besser, abba hin oder her. vor allem das schlagzeug klingt superbillig nach farfisa.

@GroenalundMusic

4 жыл бұрын

@@RayEttlerEs geht nicht um die Drums, sondern um den Grundsound. Und zeig mir einen modernen Synth, der mit der komplexen Stimmenarchitektur der GX1 mithalten kann. Von der Lebendigkeit des Klangs, oder vom echten Ensemblesound mit frei schwingenden LFOs pro Stimme ganz zu schweigen.

@jakspin

4 жыл бұрын

Ja die 300 euro Keyboards können heute realistischer Instrumente imitieren. Dafür würde heute niemand einen GX1 nehmen. Aber für die elektronischen Klänge. In dem Bereich gilt er praktisch als heiliger Gral.

@ulfsoderlund7100

4 жыл бұрын

The Yamaha GX-1 is able to produce some really nice analog synth textures that even by todays standards are considered top notch - this however, requires programming your own sounds. For example, here is the GX-1 #5088 with custom sounds playing the string parts in ABBA - I Let The Music Speak: kzread.info/dash/bejne/gK2a2M5ufJmwfrg.html or more recently the synth parts in Ane Brun - Hero: kzread.info/dash/bejne/l32K0qt8l8y2ebw.html Even though the drum machine at its time was considered "...the most realistically voiced electronic drummer I've heard..." (George Gibbs/International Musician And Recording World/February 1976) it is really not that useful today - it was actually removed from both Benny Anderssons's and Keith Emerson's units to lessen the strain on the power supply.

Great musician but I'm not impressed with the instrument at all

@orion681

4 жыл бұрын

That thing is so rammed full of cool tech it isn't funny. This guy didn't really give a great demonstration of the GX1's capabilities. This thing was pretty much a combination of every bit of synth and electronic organ technology Yamaha had at the time rammed into a huge case.

@ernstlieber4340

4 жыл бұрын

You have to be aware of the time when this instrument was created! Dig a little into synthesizer-history and you will be overwhelmed by the progress that has been made. To look at this instruments with the eyes of today is simply not doing it justice. It is a museum-piece!

Hitler was Austrian.