{"id":219,"date":"2008-08-25T20:32:53","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T03:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/?p=219"},"modified":"2008-08-26T14:00:03","modified_gmt":"2008-08-26T21:00:03","slug":"my-first-keyboard-yamaha-psr-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/25\/my-first-keyboard-yamaha-psr-21\/","title":{"rendered":"… my first keyboard – Yamaha PSR-21 …"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve been thinking about my first musical instruments lately. <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

That makes 256 sounds! <\/p>\n

256 sounds that all sound strikingly similar to a bad digital waveform. I do remember liking the trumpet sound.<\/p>\n

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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<\/em> have to put that song up here … along with the original versions of “Eating Light Bulbs” and “Moth on Bass”.<\/p>\n

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

Maybe someday I’ll find the old PSR-21 … sample it … and turn it into a VSTi.<\/p>\n

Hmmm……<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 …<\/p>\n

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