I spent a summer cleaning school buses so I could buy one of these in 1984. It seemed *so* advanced compared to other mini keyboards at that time, with its modifiable waveforms and rudimentary sequencer. 14-year-old me loved the hell out of it. Graduated to a DX7 two years later and sold the Mk100 to help pay for a Proteus 1 in 1990. I was *so sure* I'd be playing synths professionally for the rests of my life back then! And then the Proteus 1 was the last synth I ever bought. l went to law school and that was that. I wonder what 14-year-old me would think of 52-year old me. I think he'd be kinda pissed.

@resynthesizer4565

5 ай бұрын

52 year old you is probably making a much better living than 14 year old you ever would have :)

The lighting, video angles and layout made this nice to watch. I like the setup!

@quincyfinnley2653

3 жыл бұрын

you prolly dont give a shit but if you are stoned like me atm you can watch all of the new series on Instaflixxer. Have been watching with my brother for the last months xD

@wilsonstetson5261

3 жыл бұрын

@Quincy Finnley Yea, I have been watching on instaflixxer for months myself =)

I have it, I especially love the quality of the buttons, how it feels, the detail of the metronome LEDs and it is very robust; I use it with alkaline batteries and they last a lot I recommend it. You can also make split and play two voices in keyboard: 1- activate the accompaniment mode "fingered mode" 2-mute drums 3-choose bass voice in "bass voice vari." and play it on the bass zone of the keyboard 4-choose main instrument and play it on the right side of the keyboard Please more vids! I enjoyed! ☺️

@alfonsemusic

3 жыл бұрын

That's a good tip! Thanks. :) There's one more with this keyboard coming up next week...

Very interesting voice editor, especially the part with waveforms. Layered violin sounds cool! Good job :-)

@alfonsemusic

3 жыл бұрын

Thought it was worth going into a little extra detail on the multi-menu - it's a fairly unique feature.

Hey, thankyou..... I had this keyboard in 1984, I was 9 years old. I remember trying to play the soundtrack to the film "Never ending Story" after seeing it at the cinemas.

Fantastic video and I love you 💯💯💯💯💯🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹

I have it and also no plan for selling. So many capabilities not seen in newer Yamaha keyboard in this range. It remind me a little of Yamaha DJX in flexibility and fun. Also sound is original because its digital, but has warm, analog character in sound. Im planning to make some video about it on my channel. As always great vid, pleasure to watch.

@alfonsemusic

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks :) Yes, great warm sound and they really came up with something one-off with that menu, not just in the fact it spins round...

Amazing and interesting to see the Multi Menu in a Portasound range keyboard when it was prerogative or the Electone range organs. Thanks for sharing.

@alfonsemusic

3 жыл бұрын

Ah, I wondered where the idea came from. Cheers :)

@musk771

3 жыл бұрын

​@@alfonsemusic After watching this I'm not sure anymore if the first application came from the MK-100. I know the implementation on circa 1985 to 1989 Electone Organs for their programmable featured and or accessing more variety of sounds and rhythms (my HS-8 has 12 page Multi Menu). What year coming from the MK-100? By the way I love your multitracking of such old little home keyboards with tasteful and interesting unique masterpieces.

@alfonsemusic

3 жыл бұрын

@@musk771 the MK100 came out in 1984, so maybe it was an idea they decided worked better for the organs, which presumably cost a lot more. Thanks :)

@musk771

3 жыл бұрын

@@alfonsemusic Keyboards and organ of that period has personality and unique synthesized sounds. Sometimes I prefer them to the late 80s or 90s sample based instruments. The HS-8 organ has mixed FM and AWM voices and yes, costed lot more than a keyboard at the time, something like a little car.

Ha ha ha. A definite thumbs up. Who knew that this synth could do so much. Well done on covering so much in so little time, and without making it seem complicated - which is quite an achievement. In terms of flexibility, this seems pretty close to a pss-380 (but completely different sound). I wonder if they would actually compliment each other well in a multitrack tune - different speciality sounds. ;)

@alfonsemusic

3 жыл бұрын

But how could we possibly find that out...? :D

@WeeInnovate-uk

3 жыл бұрын

@@alfonsemusic hmmm. I wonder.. ha ha ha ha

It sound better than I imagined. It's in my top 3 of my searching list together with the Casio 1000P and Yamaha DSR 2000. I own all the other desirable programmable synths/home keyboards.

@alfonsemusic

3 жыл бұрын

Cool - hope you find it to complete the collection :D

@b19records51

3 жыл бұрын

I have all three, except I have a DSR 1000 which is not velocity sensitive but is otherwise almost identical. Also my 1000p broke :( - great collection, my favourite is the 1000p.

It is absolutely awesome. The only sad thing is the dynamic touch missing, but even in 2023, this is an expensive and rare feature (but so important)

Yamaha released such great little "toy" keyboards back in the day!

@alfonsemusic

3 жыл бұрын

They did - and they still have plenty of charm after all these years.

@jackcimino8822

3 жыл бұрын

The Mk-100 wasn't really a toy but more of the early 80s version of the Roland JD-Xi

Ahhhh, there's my lovely MK-100 pop organ. Thanks :D Great that you demystify that infamous Multi-Menu. The thing is a true little workstation with great pop sounds. Prices will syrocket on Ebay now. I won't sell mine though :P And your disco beat shows one of the best features of these old things: the auto-accomp accepts any kind of (dis)harmonies for its patterns. From the late 80s on it was just a few accepted basic chords, and sometimes they even simply ignore your keypresses -- how very impolite! Also, lucky you for having three hands. Two left thumbs, though...

@alfonsemusic

3 жыл бұрын

Three hands essential when marshalling Tomy robots for video shoots - those things have a mind of their own... :D Yes, it's annoying when an auto-accomp refuses to acknowledge there are more than just major and minor triads, but this one is more willing to get involved. Definitely hang on to yours!

@jackcimino8822

3 жыл бұрын

Selling one that I bought for $36 in 2017 was a mistake

@f.d.3289

3 жыл бұрын

@@alfonsemusic Def'nit'ly, it is my favourite Yamaha keyboard, even topping the PSS-680. When I die, I want it buried with me. You're right, I think this one doesn't accept every chord key combination either, it's a Yamaha... That's why the early Casios are so great, they have a very simple auto-accomp logic and ALWAYS do at least SOMETHING with your accomp key. You can get great dissonant patterns. Haha, yeah, the Tomy robots were great :D

@f.d.3289

3 жыл бұрын

@@jackcimino8822 Selling ANY 80s home keyboard in 2017 was a mistake :) Well I wasn't buying much then, but when I got back to collecting keyboards in 2020, I realized that boy, the prices had doubled since 2012 or so. In fact, selling ANY keyboard WHENSOEVER is a mistake ;)

@jackcimino8822

3 жыл бұрын

@@f.d.3289 The only toys I have now are a Casio SA-20 and a Yamaha PSS-140. They are some of the best ever made. I used to have some Kawai keyboards, but the K1 VST satisfies my needs for that kind of sound.

WOW .SUPER MINI KEYBOARD.Analog perc.Wspaniały dźwięk.Brakuje mi tylko tych robocików małych. Pewnie mają urlop :)

@alfonsemusic

3 жыл бұрын

:D Yeah, they were exhausted from the rave last week...

@keyhoarder

3 жыл бұрын

Perc isn't analog, its digital but its sound quite analog.

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Thank you for this I have owned mine for some time and believe it or not I had not figured out how to program the custom drummer. Have you ever used the save/load to tape?

@alfonsemusic

3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome. :) I didn't try the save to tape feature while I had it - it's gone back to its regular owner now... :(

I see the "Custom"-Button....but how is the programmed voice actually saved to the internal memory? And what is the deal with those "star"-symbol buttons (no. 3 and no. 12)?

@alfonsemusic

3 жыл бұрын

The changes sit in the "custom" slot for whichever preset voice you initially chose (e.g. organ) until you overwrite them again. You can switch between custom and preset at any time. When you switch to another preset (e.g. trumpet), you can build another custom voice there, etc. The star symbols are blanks - i.e. those buttons do nothing in that particular rotation of the menu.

@sauermusicDE

3 жыл бұрын

@@alfonsemusic Thanks! :-)

Can you please tell how did you connect it to your computer???!!!

@alfonsemusic

2 жыл бұрын

There's a headphone output at the front left. I plugged a stereo splitter cable into that and the other ends into inputs on my audio interface attached to the computer.

@sumantoroy8587

2 жыл бұрын

@@alfonsemusic thanks ...it worked

Yeah.... I won't be selling mine anytime soon.

@alfonsemusic

3 жыл бұрын

Seems like there are quite a few people who have them tucked away somewhere! Good move.

just bought one for 18$

This sound marginally like my PSS-100

@alfonsemusic

3 жыл бұрын

It's that squarewave sound at the heart of it, I guess. If you could layer up a PSS100 like this they'd probably get closer still.

I've had one of these on Gumtree for sale at a silly price for months. I don't get why nobody wants it, especially with all this analogue is king talk.

@alfonsemusic

Ай бұрын

I guess it's not that well-known, but you would think someone with some familiarity would have spotted it by now.