Cashier: "That'll be $16.83" Me: *swipes Yamaha play card* Casheir: "...what?" Me: "This purchase is definitely worth at least ONE Dancing Queen."

@LanotaRitmo

5 жыл бұрын

BRAIN POWER

@Oblivion5367

4 жыл бұрын

200 IQ

@evavonblon2151

4 жыл бұрын

Peter Hart you forgot a few 9‘s

@evavonblon2151

4 жыл бұрын

Peter Hart 999999999999999… *2000 years later* …99999999999999999999 IQ

@evavonblon2151

4 жыл бұрын

**infinite 9‘s* IQ

ROM, 4K RAM, an Intel 8085, a SID, and dedicated I/O? This keyboard is basically an 80's PC!

@8BitKeys

6 жыл бұрын

Indeed it is.. Just missing a video chip. That's what I love about these old things.

@Chaos89P

6 жыл бұрын

mrjakeisnumber1 I'd love to see somebody take one of these Yamahas and turn them into a computer!

@greenaum

6 жыл бұрын

It's already a computer! And actually, Yamaha made some computers in the MSX standard. Lots of Japanese manufacturers made MSXes, and Yamaha's were more musical than most. I think there was some sort of crossover stuff, either a musical keyboard for the MSX, or a computer keyboard for the synth. Something along those lines.

@greenaum

6 жыл бұрын

Ah, Yamaha CX5M. Possible others?

@38911bytefree

6 жыл бұрын

So true ... add a couple of thing ad you got a VIC20

2:23 - castle stage from an Amiga platform game.

@davidmcgill1000

6 жыл бұрын

"Stones" from the Ultima series.

@zamsaraguth

4 жыл бұрын

Of course Salad Fingers would like keyboards.

@kaitojinn

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, a random comment on a random channel

@smittenthekitteninmittens2679

4 жыл бұрын

+David Firth Hey David we need new "The news hasn't happened yet" in these crazy crazy times!!

@fantacat8824

3 жыл бұрын

you are the last person I was expecting to see here

Now, all you have to do is to figure out how to encode a strip like that, and we can make some custom music for it. Are you game, David? :D

@8BitKeys

6 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a lot of research time needed!

@AndersEngerJensen

6 жыл бұрын

Hehe yeah, let's do it after Planet X3 then. :D

@AgentKilo

6 жыл бұрын

Tbh if I had the knowledge and time to do something like that, I would probably just try to encode Africa by Toto 😂

@Doellimann

6 жыл бұрын

Looks pretty similar to the Califone card master system

@ShaunDreclin

6 жыл бұрын

Maybe a job for ben heck :o he seems to dig reverse engineering stuff like that

Get a USB credit card reader, open notepad, and scan the card.

@danieldigital0

5 жыл бұрын

Good idea, but I'm afraid to say that a magnetic strip is the same as a cassette and therefore has to be stored as audio. We don't know how to decode the play-cards yet, because it's not like all cassettes that store data are encoded in the same format. Credit cards are stored in one way, and play-cards are probably stored as another way.

Give us the uncompressed audio file from the Playcard strip, so we can reverse-engineer it! :D

@8BitKeys

6 жыл бұрын

Send me a PM and I'll email you the WAV file.

@polluks2

6 жыл бұрын

Good luck!

@warp9988

6 жыл бұрын

Should be easy. Get gnu radio and all the basic audio to data codecs are built.

@ehalt2

6 жыл бұрын

Oh my god, the community around here is awesome!

@polluks2

6 жыл бұрын

Warp Overkill, mag stripe decoding is well-known

The Yamaha MR-1 uses the same cards. My father brought one home when I was 8 years old in 1985. I still have the MR-1 and a bunch of cards. I actually learned how to play on that "organ" and once I learned all the cards, I started making up my own songs. Eventually I became a professional musician and I travel the world playing music (mostly Hammond organ). Pretty crazy that it all started with those goofy songs on magnetic cards.

The 8-Bit Keys Remix is now available to listen to on my youtube channel! :). You can also download the song from my Soundcloud which has a link in the description. Thank you very much David for using my remix in your video! Really appreciate it!

@8BitKeys

6 жыл бұрын

You're welcome. It was a good remix.

@Oosystem

6 жыл бұрын

Really good remix :).

@dtolaas2456

6 жыл бұрын

are you norwegian

@xDecibelx

6 жыл бұрын

dtolaas yes I am :)

@vicr123

Жыл бұрын

Do you have a link to your SoundCloud? It seems to no longer be in the description :(

The reason that sheet music only has one line is because it's a lead sheet. They're common in jazz and the chord progression is notated above.

"now let's try the stereo symphonic" Watching this on a a monophonic phone ...

My childhood babysitter was also a Sunday school teacher, she owned one of these keyboards and I would end up playing it whenever I visited. Wish I'd been able to take formal music lessons. Thanks for bringing back a precious childhood memory.

There was an old timer who would set up the keyboard gigs at the big Sears and entertain everyone during the holidays. That keyboard was made to play Christmas tunes... Being a tech geek, that card system fascinated me to no end. I ended up finally getting a Casio PT50 but always dreamed enough lawn job money could get me that Yamaha...

I loved the pink panther theme!!!

@Lachlant1984

6 жыл бұрын

Is that what was playing on the Casio PT-80 keyboard?

@namenamename390

6 жыл бұрын

This song is my childhood... My heart gets warmer when I hear it.

@marianamilitaru8527

6 жыл бұрын

NAME NAMENAME Say what?

@pancake_the_pancake

6 жыл бұрын

my childhood

@aswisscheeseslice7184

5 жыл бұрын

I loved it so much

So glad to see a new video on the 8-Bit Keys Channel. Thank you so much for the upload. Really enjoy your content on both of your channels.

I really like that sound chip, it's got character.

The Square reader has a microcontroller inside it which sends digital information about an attempt to read a credit card, so what you captured is not the raw data off the card.

Cracked a grin at the Pink Panther part.

Thank you for uploading this :-) The sneak peak you gave last time really got me interested, and I am so happy you pushed through with this.

Why do I always get so mesmerized whenever I listen to "Stones" ?

I had forgot all about it, but I instantly knew what you were going to do with the note sheet. My cousin had a keyboard like this when I was just a small kid. Instant flashback. What a great video!

I really look forward to your videos on 8-bit keys and 8-bit guy! Hope to see one soon, i do recognize the amount of work you put into them.

never saw this kind of Yamaha small portable electronic keyboards back in the day ... looks quite neat even by today standards! love it!

Nice video! I remember the Play-cards from a previous video, but this is the time that I finally got to see them in action!

"So the only thing left to do now is to disassemble it." There was no way around it. It was inevitable. You had to. We understand, Dave. We understand.

I've been so hungry to see you take apart another keyboard. Thank you so much! I love these videos so much

Seeing these videos after a long day at work, just makes life worth it. Haha!

Thanks again my man! I haven't checked out your entire catalog here but I'm hoping now that you have some videos about Commodore computer music! And your playing was very nice, but the end of your video is probably kind of indicative of exactly how inspirational this keyboard is in general. Some of those rhythms sounded like some righteous cheese, as did a couple of those tones, anyway. Thanks again!

Just bought one of these thanks to this amazing review!

Are you using one of the old (unencrypted) Square readers? If you're using one of the newer ones with a chip inside, it's going to try to interpret the card data and encrypt it, which is going to completely mangle anything that isn't a credit card. I looked at your audio and it looks way too consistent in speed to be a raw recording of a manual swipe. The data itself looks pretty random but each of the first 3 blocks has the same header, and in general I don't think there's anywhere near enough data in here for a full song. I think we're seeing an encrypted message from the Square reader here, not the actual stripe data. Each of the first 3 blocks has ~1500 bits of data, of which only about ~1000 are not static padding, and ~200 at the beginning of each block are the same. The fourth block is at half the bit rate and contains exactly the same data as the third block. That makes no sense at all.

@evghenim1955

6 жыл бұрын

That is an "encrypted" square reader, as the data looks identical to what mine spits out if I swipe an actual credit card.

@TibiGamer3DS

3 жыл бұрын

wtf is that l o n g paragraph or something

@masterkamen371

2 жыл бұрын

@@TibiGamer3DS Learn to read.

@TibiGamer3DS

2 жыл бұрын

@@masterkamen371 i already know how to read but its too long

Some great new remixes of intro music in there. Good stuff Ole-Henrik

Really great content. Your channel and Markus Fuller's channel encouraged me to record the part exchange and internal cleaning of my Keyboard, which I will soon post on KZread because there is no decent video about it in Brazilian Portuguese.

I do have Yamaha PC-100 which is similar to this one, and it's amazing indeed. There is also one more feature -- if you play the melody along with lights, the *tempo will actually adjust* to the tempo you play this melody, in real time!

wow when you started to play UO I was brought back to a time . . . Thanks man

I really enjoyed this video, cheers 8Bit guy.

Love it when you upload on either channel, It's the highlight of my day!

@pappachook

6 жыл бұрын

James Sayian other channel? Do tell.

@8BitKeys

6 жыл бұрын

My main channel is known as "The 8-Bit Guy."

I love the sound of old keyboards. They sound like something straight out of a video game

Great video, interesting synthesizer too. I just got a DW-8000 myself and fixed a broken key and a messed up key contacts myself. It was really fun to pull apart, clean up, and repair. Completely inspired by your videos. Tons of fun. I really like the DW-8000 too.

@slipknotboy555

6 жыл бұрын

Bo Stout The DW-8000 is fantastic. One of my favorites (if not my favorite) of what I own. The keyboard doesn't feel great, but the sound is great, with its analog VCFs and VCAs, and the interface is actually pretty easy to use

I will thinking about getting one of these old keyboards, the sounds are gloriously retro.

Love your rendition of Stones from Ultima and other songs from the great series. Lifelong Ultima fan here too!

A keyboard I've been watching you to get your hands on is a Yamaha PSS-680. While it didn't sound particularly good, like a 2-3 operator FM synth. But it had a lot of great accompaniment options which was rather great for ideas. Also it was like a 61 key keyboard. Mini keys, yeah, but still great. BTW, mini keys are often what you see on "toy" keyboards, but a lot of pro synths and controllers now have just 2-3 octaves of mini keys. I guess studio desk space is at a premium.

Amazed by some of the stuff I learn on your ch.

You do a mean Pink Panther!

Awww .. love the musical part a lot. Great video

I love both of your channels and you should totally do more restorations

The music box it’s so relaxing... love it

The internal structure looks like a computer. And Amazing Play-card System :)

Thankyou for this informative video!!! I love this channel and it’s contents!!!

Nice. I already knew about this one, but still haven't seen one in person. It's a lovely looking keyboard, sort of like a miniature PS-6100 or PSR-6300 (this one was released later, though) in terms of aesthetics. If you have a MK-100 and a PS-55 and/or a PC-1000 you basically have the entire sound "library" that this family has to offer. The PC models also feature that Play-card system, IIRC (as does some other smaller models).

I always love it when you play Stones from the Ultima series...my favorite song from that game series :)

Wow! That new intro music is terrific!

I owned a PSS-450 as a kid. I used to love that keyboard.

I didn’t know Mitsubishi made computer chips. You learn something new everyday

Something a. BIt extra in how nice this keyboard sounds. I really like it!

This channel is an unlimited supply for Ultima remixes on obscure keyboards

Yay! You used my song! I also like how you sneakily extended it a bit 😁

@8BitKeys

6 жыл бұрын

hahah.. Yes.. It wasn't quite long enough for that one part.

You should seriously do more videos of playing music, David! Thank you so much!!

The IG10771 was also used in the PS-25 and 55 since my Aunt’s PS-25 (which I inherited after she passed away) has many of the same voices.

Yay another 8-Bit Guy video !

Hi i am a 10 yr old kid and I love your videos on both of your channels especially your restoration vids!!!!!

love when you disassemble those retro electronic devices and see what inside,,,, 😊😊😊💗💗💗💗

Hey David, those square card readers output encrypted information. I recognize that sound because I did the same thing myself. You will need to disable the encryption or use a different reader like the older readers which are just a tape head connected straight to the headphone out. The one you are using is like mine. I'm trying to mod it so it plays the raw audio from the head.

@blendpinexus1416

2 жыл бұрын

did you try cannibalizing a cassete reader to steal it's head?

@coondogtheman

2 жыл бұрын

@@blendpinexus1416 No but I took one from a cassette adapter.

A Truly Magnificent Keyboard 🎹

I just thought of something. If this thing is expecting sound from that read head, you should be able to solder a jack directly to that to allow for external input, or to read the output of the cards maybe? Imagine if you could write a program on some old computer of the era that would be able to encode to that format. that would be crazy.

@8BitKeys

6 жыл бұрын

Indeed.. With a little work, it wouldn't be that hard to read all of these cards to a modern PC for archival, and then be able to send them back to a modified keyboard. It should also be possible to decode the data and play the music on just about any computer.

I've seen this keyboard for sale another timeless video Dave!:)

You’re back! I love the 8-bit guy as much as the next guy, but 8-bit keys is where the REAL party is.

great video love the new intro music

Damn it, I had just talked myself out of buying one of these. But there is enough instruments in it that sound good with the style of music I make that i'm going to have buy one.

Wow amazing, great video, as always! Would love to study those play-card magnetic stripe.

Love the new intro

I'm not a keyboard expert at all, but that PCS-500 has a great sound. Good video, hope to see more soon.

Damn, you are rocking that keyboard!

Nice keyboard Dave. cool video

Wow this keyboard is amazing, i wish modern keyboards had things like that.

Wow, that music box sound is surprisingly good.

The organ instrument sounds really good.

Love the giggle at 0:43

Thank you for the great video!

dude you sure took me on an ultima flashback adventure there for a minute

This channel makes me want to buy one of these keyboards to whistle along to.

Dude, when you start the pink panther theme, i started snapping my fingers along and bobbing my head. :D

That was cool Dave:-) I haven't heard the Pink Panther theme in a while. Cheers!

Your pink panther was SWEET

This is really awesome

What a nice piece of nastalgia there. So moddable as well. You play these toys well.

The strip has to include the rhythm and cords, but it also has info about stopping points for the rhythm when they are necessary. This means that if you had a measure in the accompanyment part of a song where all the backing instruments hit a stacato beat and then have a rest, that info is there so the drums and stuff won't run through those points.

i wish you could do a compilation of the songs you know, i love listening to the tunes in your videos

I love that you can play the Ultima music.

this sounds so good

I think this is my favorite intro so far

An interesting machine! Thanks

Damn! That thing sounds good! I'm gonna try and recreate that in my DAW...

I remember using one of these. What I found funny was that the notes played, the melody, were the same as the vocals.

Thank you for blessing us with this new golden apple of a video 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@bluedragon3085

6 жыл бұрын

minecraft is bad

@someguystudios23

6 жыл бұрын

Blue Dragon why tho

@limestonebutter

6 жыл бұрын

Blue Dragon And that relates to...

I like your new introduction

Love this and your other channl

Love the video

PT-180 is my first keyboard. Nostalgic. :)

I love this channel. It needs more subs. Let's get David another KZread Play button!

Man I miss this channel. I hope it comes back soon.

an 8255, a common I/O chip of the era, 3x 8 bit ports A, B and C, with C divided in half (LO/HI nibbles [4 bits]) and used as handshaking lines for the ports A and B, or as another (I believe) bit-addressable port.