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Yamaha TG33


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I just picked up a Yamaha TG33 last night from Craigslist. $100 including a Voice Card.

 

Here's a quick demo I made (all sounds are the TG33.)

 

http://soundcloud.com/astrozon/yamaha-tg33-demo

 

Interesting little box. I only used the Vector Control on the first sample.

 

There are D50 and Prophet sounds as well as funky FM stuff on the edges. All very mid-fi and a definitive move away from Yamaha's 80s stalwart FM sounds.

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Proud owner of a 33. Traded my SY22 with hardcase + $50 for the TG and a Korg DDD-1 drum machine a few months back. Some really cool sounds. I've got a few good all-TG songs (including a horribly cheesy version of "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" :D ) that I'll dig up if I can find them.

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The very first part was absolutely fantastic. Love such textures. Was it preset or did you program something your own?

 

 

Let's see...

The first part is a patch called SL*VCO and a tiny bit of SL:Mini (last 8th of each measure.) I was moving the joystick around as the sequence played.

 

And thanks for the other comments as well. Looks like we have quite the TG33 community here.

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my first synth was a new Yamaha SY35. I was better at guitar at that time so I was more into the sound programming. My buddy who played piano was checking it out one time and he was surprised by the sounds. He's says "what the hell do you play with this stuff?"

Years later I picked up a TG33 but the magic was gone for me :(

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I'm surprised to see so much love for the TG33. I like mine, but my impression was that most people saw it as the ugly half brother of the Wavestation.

 

 

Not ugly, but certainly not endearing in style either. It resembles a security camera control station.

 

I think every hardware synth has a fanbase of some sort. I did a quick search on SoundCloud for some of my nerd boxes:

 

Yamaha FB01: http://soundcloud.com/chaosmoon/schoorl-v1

 

Casio VL-Tone: http://soundcloud.com/micklh/casio-vl-tone-demo

 

Roland MT-32: http://soundcloud.com/lagezon/lagezon-mt32-pentamouse

 

Casio SK-1: http://soundcloud.com/ontheroadtodenver/casio-sk-1-1

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