Yamaha PSS-140 FM keyboard

OP-1 Patches
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Hi operators, fresh and happy owner of OP-1 here. This is my first ‘serious’ post and also a little ‘thank you’ gift for this amazing community. I’ve been reading through forums for some weeks now, learning a lot.


Here’s the first batch of Yamaha PSS-140 patches sampled into OP-1 and fine-tuned for this little genius box. Some samples are pretty lofi but that’s the nature of PSS-140, funny FM toy keyboard from 80’s. I’m yet about to circuit bend it so there might come more twisted patches in the future.

Vol. 1 is a selection of 21 patches with some touches (FX, G LFO, …) of OP-1 engine. Names don’t relate to original PSS-140 patch names. More sounds will follow as they get sampled.

Edit:
2015-10-13 - Vol. 2 added, patch list consolidated into a txt file

Patch list
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hnsukyvyt5a9l6z/pss-140_op-1_patchlist.txt?dl=0

Download
https://www.48.cz/music/yamaha-pss-140-patches-for-op-1-vol-1/
https://www.48.cz/music/yamaha-pss-140-patches-for-op-1-vol-2/

Listen
Excuse my poor playing skills.
https://soundcloud.com/cube48/pss-140-op-1-vol1
https://soundcloud.com/cube48/pss-140-op-1-vol2
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This is fantastic, thank you!

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Just added Vol. 2.

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This looks quite neat! I’m not familiar with this Yamaha, but I like the patches in your demo. Thanks for sharing.

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Awesome! My first Keyboard was a PSS 780. Nearly 30 Years ago. Never realize, that it was a cool FM Synth. When i was a child it sounds like crap to me :slight_smile: but now! Fantastic!

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I really like it : the cheap toy-like sounds of this synthesizer take a totally new face when it’s about tweaking them into the OP-1 !

:smiley:

Thank you @cube48, very well done !

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the PSS470 and maybe a few others give u like 5 edit sliders for the FM synth too.