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Yamaha SY77 is a 16 voice multitimbral music workstation first produced by Yamaha Corporation in 1989. The SY77 is a synthesizer whose architecture combines AFM (Advanced Frequency Modulation) synthesis, AWM2 (Advanced Wave Memory 2) for ROM-borne sample-based synthesis, and the combination of these two methods christened Realtime Convolution and Modulation Synthesis (RCM).
Revisiting old work I did back in the 90's-when I did most of my composing work while also gigging with the SY. I have had to look over 50+ floppies, that I unfortunately was pretty sloppy with in terms of organizing-since I have probably every disk from Sound Source, Voice Crystal-public domain files etc.
In doing this work-I realized, had I matched the name of my composition with the specific multi I used with it-since the SY77 does not do that automatically unless you save (1) composition i…login to view the rest of this post