Yamaha PSS-560 Drum Samples
July 2nd, 2008 No Comments
A little while ago I acquired a Yamaha PortaSound PSS-560. I bought it mainly for nostalgic reasons - it was the first keyboard I owned (actually the second if you include the Casio PT-1) and also my first introduction to FM synthesis.
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Birdsong
July 19th, 2007 No Comments
The other day I happened to be awake as the Sun was rising so I took the opportunity to record the sound of the local wildlife from my window.
I guess bird sounds are kind of a cliché with regard to field recordings, but maybe it’s still a useful sample to someone.
Download: r09_birdsong.mp3 (6.86 MB)
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Yamaha PSS-80 Rhythm Loops
March 31st, 2007 1 Comment
I picked up a PortaSound PSS-80 off Ebay, figuring it would be a good candidate for some circuit-bending experimentation (Click here for a YouTube video of a circuit-bent PSS-80 in action).
I sampled its built in percussion loops - there’s no headphone socket or line output (yet) so I recorded them using an Edirol R-09 pointed at the device’s speaker, then cleaned them up a bit. Unlike some of the keyboards in the PortaSound range, the percussion sounds aren’t PCM samples so they sound quite synthetic. The samples are 48kHz/16bit, tempo is roughly 124 BPM.
Download: pss-80_rhythm_loops.zip (630 KB)
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Casio VL-Tone Piano Soundfont
March 23rd, 2007 5 Comments
I made a soundfont based on the Casio VL-Tone (or VL-1) piano preset.
All 53 notes in the instrument’s range (G2 to B6) were individually sampled via the VL-Tone’s line output at 96kHz/24bit then down converted to 48kHz/16bit.
Download: vl-tone_piano.zip (6.28 MB)
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