I never did!gentleclockdivider wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2024 4:17 pmMost certainly not .
And you had one of the finest synths ever made , years in storage![]()
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My SY77 has always been in my rig, right behind me. Powered, all ready to go.
I just didn't have the time to play it as much as I used to. This thread has reignited my interest...
Honestly, the reverb and delay have nothing going for it. The worst effects in existence and I'm surprised to read that anyone would enjoy these on any sound.
The reverb rings in the most horrible way. It is hollow, metallic and fragmented, in any of the reverb modes.
The delays are extremely short and do not allow for any musical spread of delays.
Taken as a whole, this reverb + delay combo is detrimental to any and every sound. The FM/AFM/RCM sounds obtained from the SY77 can be sublime. It is a natural desire to want add some ambiance to a patch and store it together. Come back to the patch, load it, play it with some glorious effects, a nice reverberant space without having to switch the DAW 'on' and load your reverb of choice...but that's not possible since the reverb+delay are atrocious.
I mean, you could go back in time to some old, digital reverbs like the original Alesis, or Zoom ones (I still have Alesis Microverb 4 siting in my rack). Cheap, cheerful and some would argue full of that vintage-digital character, but this SY77 reverb ain't it. The Yamaha SPX90 has these infamous Yamaha metallic reverbs, with the plate reverb being used on snare, but the effects section in the SY77 isn't equivalent to the SPX90. In the SY77 we don't have some infamous, so-bad-that-they-are-good type of effects, we have bad-effects-that-are-bad.
Heaven help me! They want to smear the SY77 sounds in this horrible cacophony they call the 'SY77 reverb'.
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