The Yamaha AN1x Synthesizer mailing list

From: <tomfinegan@...>

> --- In AN1x-list@egroups.com, "Peter Korsten" <peterk@i...> wrote:
> > Additive synthesis in the Kawai K5000 (alas, also no longer
> > available) works
> > The Yamaha FS1r is the latest example of the sort,
>
> Speaking of these two. I\ufffdve read some reviews on harmony-central.com
> about the K5000 and a lot of ppl said, that the FS1r sounds like a
> K5000. Is it because of the intensive use of formants?

I really wouldn't know. I think the presets of the K5000 are boring, and I
can't be bothered to learn to program it. I also can't be bothered to learn
to program the FS1r, but it's got some 1500 presets, some of them very nice,
and you can use all the thousands and thousands of DX7 patches available.

> > Well, both are out of production anyway. :)
> Really the EX5 also? What\ufffds gonna be next?

CS2x, SU700. It's rather simple: take a Yamaha product, and about two years
later it's out of production. It's not necesary to have a replacement, as
the AN1x and EX5 show.

- Peter