… my first keyboard – Yamaha PSR-21 …

I’ve been thinking about my first musical instruments lately.

In 1986, my mom bought my a Yamaha PSR-21. This baby had 16 totally awesome built in sounds like “Cosmic” and “Funksynth”. It had four waveforms for each sound and four variations of a amplifier envelope as well.

That makes 256 sounds!

256 sounds that all sound strikingly similar to a bad digital waveform. I do remember liking the trumpet sound.

It also had a (slightly) programmable drum sequencer. I remember tapping out the disco rhythm for my first song “Nuclear Toxic Sludge” in 1989 on this baby. I really have to put that song up here … along with the original versions of “Eating Light Bulbs” and “Moth on Bass”.

I had a copy of the “Pseudo Echo” cover of “Funky Town” I taped off the radio and I would JAM with that tune all day long. If you have no idea what I am talking about, click on the Youtube video above.

Maybe someday I’ll find the old PSR-21 … sample it … and turn it into a VSTi.

Hmmm……