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Vintage Yamaha Portasound PSS-260 Keyboard 1986 with AC Adapter
Vintage Yamaha Portasound PSS-260 Keyboard 1986 with AC Adapter
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Yamaha Portasound PSS-260 Keyboard.
Has some surfaces scratches and wear but in working order.This keyboard from 1985 has a digital dual waveform timbres those imitate FM and resemble much the bright Yamaha PC-100 sounds. The most interesting feature is the realtime programmable drum pattern ("custom drummer") with very electronic sounding blip percussion, which in a limited way can be also abused as a tekkno drum computer.
main features:
- 49 midsize keys
- built-in 10cm speaker (sounds bright and a little thin)
- main voice polyphony 8 notes (only 3 with accompaniment or manual bass)
- 12 OBS preset sounds {jazz organ, flute, saxophone, oboe, trumpet, violin, pipe organ, piano, electric piano, guitar, harpsichord, synth} (selected through easy going slide switch)
- 8 OBS preset rhythms {pops, disco, 16 beat, bossanova, swing, slow rock, march/polka, waltz} (selected through easy going slide switch)
- volume slider
- accompaniment (with rhythm) volume slide switch (6 steps including off)
- vibrato switch
- sustain switch {off, reverb, sustain}
- tempo slider
- accompaniment in single finger, fingered and manual bass mode (manual chord mode with rhythm off)
- 6 percussion sounds {base, snare, open hihat, close hihat, bongo, conga} of unique electronic style.
- realtime programmable rhythm pattern ("custom drummer")
- main voice sound is based on 2 layered static digital waveforms with independent simple envelope; with some low tones mild sample aliasing noise gets audible.
- CPU= "8612AX, XY502A0 259" (64 pin zigzag DIL, crystal clocked), separate sound IC= "Yamaha IG10771, 87114, 8609 Z25" (64 pin DIL)
- battery alarm (plays 2 notes when not played for a minute - also when mains operated)
- demo melody (Mozart's "Rondo alla Turca", cycles through different rhythms & sounds)
- jacks for AC- adapter, headphone & line out
| base, conga, bongo | = sine wave (?) blips |
| snare | = "conga" + shift register noise |
| open cymbal | = unique semi- metallic hissing electronic timbre |
| closed cym. | = dto.' with shorter envelope |
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