[sdiy] OT: What happened to Yamaha?...

[Richard Wentk]

Yamaha are still doing interesting stuff. The Vocaloid vocal synth has been an *epic* success in Japan, with almost literal cult status and some really quite impressive music.

Also, this:

http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/21/yamaha-vocaloid-keyboard/

But synths are stagnant because there's no real synth market anymore. Soft synths and workstations have mostly killed it, and what little there is is owned by Access and a few other niche/boutique hardware makers.

So even if Yamaha produced liketotallythemostawesomest synth ever, it's unlikely it would get much interest.

Meanwhile...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17764056

Richard

On 26 Apr 2012, at 12:14, Steff <steff at steff.name> wrote:

> On 26 April 2012 08:24, Oakley Sound <oakleylist at btinternet.com> wrote:
>>> This from the company that gave us the CS-80. Faceless workstations.
>> 
>> I understand where you're coming from. But, if you look at the old Yamahas
>> they were preset machines, even the CS-80. Oboes, flutes, pianos and so on.
> 
> I've always taken it that there's a division of responsibility going
> on here - Yamaha do fairly trad musical instruments* (they make very
> fine pianos for example) but own a large stake in Korg, who have
> always done the more outré electronics (and continue to do so - see
> the Monotron, with its publish circuit diagrams and
> carefully-marked-for-modding PCB). Seems perfectly reasonable to me, I
> just keep a closer eye on Korg than I do Yamaha.
> 
> *with occasional tentative forays into awesomeness - I love my RS7000
> for example - it's me-too Akai MPC but done very well indeed.
> 
> S
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