Yamaha Reface Keyboards

[Wiu]

youtu.be/ol2xUFtrNSw

youtu.be/gR47UZNwxlM

youtu.be/1DUs8We12EY

youtu.be/yyf-2A1ePCY

I think the DX one would be my choice. That said, I'm a sucker for a nice bit of organ.

They seem to be getting a fair amount of hate for having minikeys and the pricing though. £347 each, but that will probably fall to about £300 quite quickly I reckon.

[PixelKind]

The DX looks really nice! And the CS doesnt sound too bad either.

Gear4Music has them for £289 which is ok I think
http://www.gear4music.com/Keyboards-and ... sizer/1BGW

[Lost to the Void]

What a lovely set of synths.

CP is tempting, I do love a nice electric piano.

DX is pretty cool too, I'm an FM lover.
CP gets gnarly.

Yeah, I dig em. 289 each is a great price.

[Koichi]

I'm sold on these - DX7 2nd hand is cheaper though but of course the reface looks way easier to program and won't be 25+ yrs old!

[msl]

Hum very interesting, kinda doubtful about the editing interface on the DX.... but great idea, Yamaha has such great legacy products it inly makes total sense.

[helloitsmeagain]

Yeah, these are awesome, though that data entry screen on the DX looks like it won't last the week... But I'd love one anyway.

[msl]

Yeah I would of preferred real sliders on the DX ala the old PSR ones, super simple and effective...


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[A.M.Smith]

looks like the touch sliders become buttons when working w the looper, might be one big reason for touch screens over sliders...but I'd prefer sliders and drop the looper myself...thing is though you can have something like an Ultra Nova for about the same price...the CS looks OK if you just really need some outboard bread and butter sounds

the DX one is the most tempting only because it seems to make FM programming a bit more accessible in hardware land and I would dig being able to morph the patch so much while a sequence was playing

[Mslwte]

From what I've seen so far I would still prefer a dx200 over a dx reface. But I'll go and have a play with these when they are in my local shop.

Lol that it has taken nearly 30 years to add a few extra controls to a dx

[PixelKind]

Yeah they could have added more controls to it. Watched some more videos and I really like the sound of the DX

[Mslwte]

I quite like the sound of the cs if I'm honest. Easily achievable mad sounds and lots of faders to mess with on the fly.

[A.M.Smith]

I quite like the sound of the cs if I'm honest. Easily achievable mad sounds and lots of faders to mess with on the fly.

I'll give you this, but it just seems not a lot for the money. I'll pick one up when a bucket load of em inevitably end up dumped on eBay for 200 dollars

at 400 USD new I'd rather have nice FX unit to spice up the synths I already own. I'm rather Spartan about my hardware setup and would rather have fewer and better pieces. I tried the whole fill my studio with budget gear and detritus route...dint ever work out for me...but then again I'm the kinda asshole that will buy a sports car with an automatic transmission.

I'll wait to make a final judgement when we get some real user demos, but the sounds didn't strick me as insta-buy.

[Lost to the Void]

I quite like the sound of the cs if I'm honest. Easily achievable mad sounds and lots of faders to mess with on the fly.

Me too, it`s got that CS sound, metallic and clunky, I really used to like the AN1 that this is apparently based around.
It would fit in to my live PA quite well. Nice and small.

[skan360]

the touch slider on DX is not good. Why they didn't use simple sliders, i want to feel it in my hand.

[Lost to the Void]

i want to feel it in my hand.

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[melkvor]

not impressed. all things considered they're simply not worth it.

however, the organ/piano biz is quite exciting.

still not worth the price tag however. disappointed. yamaha have really lost the plot.

[Wiu]

Yeah right. Fucking manufacturers should be charging like £75 tops for this kind of thing. Maybe less actually. Cunts. I want some cheaply built piece of shit that will likely fall apart after a few years of mild use. I want a noisy headphone output, not dedicated 1/4" outputs ffs! I want something that's so light that as soon as I press a key it starts sliding across the fucking desk. I absolutely need analog where applicable. Everyone knows that analog sounds like 5000% better. Also, it's too fucking big! Bollocks to those long mini keys, I want fucking micro keys a newborn child would struggle to play. I want tiny little dials and faders for my big man sized hands which will encourage those happy accidents that always sound so damn great. Everyone knows better music is made when you hate the instrument you're using and want nothing more than to throw it against a wall, set on fire and call a piece of shit. Fucking Yamaha. The damn cheek I tells ya!!

[Lost to the Void]

Yeah right. Fucking manufacturers should be charging like £75 tops for this kind of thing. Maybe less actually. Cunts. I want some cheaply built piece of shit that will likely fall apart after a few years of mild use. I want a noisy headphone output, not dedicated 1/4" outputs ffs! I want something that's so light that as soon as I press a key it starts sliding across the fucking desk. I absolutely need analog where applicable. Everyone knows that analog sounds like 5000% better. Also, it's too fucking big! Bollocks to those long mini keys, I want fucking micro keys a newborn child would struggle to play. I want tiny little dials and faders for my big man sized hands which will encourage those happy accidents that always sound so damn great. Everyone knows better music is made when you hate the instrument you're using and want nothing more than to throw it against a wall, set on fire and call a piece of shit. Fucking Yamaha. The damn cheek I tells ya!!

that was epic

[Mslwte]

Do I smell a man period?

[melkvor]

Fucking manufacturers should be charging like £75 tops for this kind of thing. Maybe less actually... I want some cheaply built piece of shit... Also, it's too fucking big! Bollocks to those long mini keys, I want fucking micro keys a newborn child would struggle to play.... I want tiny little dials and faders for my big man sized hands which will encourage those happy accidents that always sound so damn great...

Thing is, it should have all these things. This is the market that yamaha is trying to enter - volca's, 'tribes/'trons, etc. These units should cost a third of their price.

nice rant tho