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Yamaha Gs1. Yamaha GS1 GS1 Keyboard Piano Brochure 1981 Reverb "This is a rare YAMAHA GS-1 DIGITAL FM SYNTHESIZER The GS1 shows the expected wear of a 40+ year old heavy instrument

Yamaha GS1 & DX1 The Birth, Rise & Further Rise Of FM Synthesis
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Very good electric pianos, metallic percussive sounds, DX brass, DX strings, great organic pads This is the first digital FM synthesizer made by Yamaha, and the forerunner of the Yamaha DX7.

Yamaha GS1 & DX1 The Birth, Rise & Further Rise Of FM Synthesis

I had a phone call with the former distribution manager of Yamaha and he told me, that only 50 - 100 GS1 have been produced (another source inside Yamaha says 70. "This is a rare YAMAHA GS-1 DIGITAL FM SYNTHESIZER The GS1 shows the expected wear of a 40+ year old heavy instrument

Yamaha GS1 & DX1 The Birth, Rise & Further Rise Of FM Synthesis. Introduced in 1980, the GS1 had an internal architecture consisting of 16-voice polyphony, with eight operators per voice.The project was a spin-off from an in-house Yamaha project known as. Yamaha's first commercially produced synth to use frequency modulation as its method of synthesis, preceding the much better known DX7 by about three years

Yamaha GS1 & DX1 The Birth, Rise & Further Rise Of FM Synthesis. This is the first digital FM synthesizer made by Yamaha, and the forerunner of the Yamaha DX7. Apparently fewer than 100 units were sold worldwide, so you can imagine how many still exist and are actually playable 42 years on.