Love it. What a great sounding organ! And it sounds unusually great when it gets dense. Like, a lot of synths nowadays seems to be having problem mixing polyphony in a way that makes sense. This sounds very natural as the polyphony goes high.
cuckoomusic that's a really good point. I think the huge recent expansion of new synths has forced a lot of aggressive cost-cutting. It makes a korg triton feel like a muscle car.
Lol.. I keep listening to this over and over again :) Surprisingly, I find this one the most "true to what it is", and the most compelling of the four new Reface Yamaha mini keyboards. I did absolutely not expect that.
Now, two years later, do you still feel the same way about the YC? I ended up purchasing the CP and the YC. As you stated above, it seems like these two are quite true to their specific instrument. I think a lot of people will be mad they missed out on these when they're gone.
@@pcuimac I just ordered both, the CP had to come from overseas but the YC was in country, so I should have it within days, and that's the one I'm most excited about. The Lesliie simulation alone has me weak at the knees. I've only ever played them in music shops, in the early 70s, when the prospect of having access to one was about as plausble as having a ski run with Jean Claude Killy.
But what my budget did run to, and my first "adult" (teen) purchase, was a YC20, and it was fantastic. And the same colour as this, incluing the drawbars and sliders...
I own 2 original YC series organs, and I absolutely love the idea of bringing them back, even in a digital context, but I can't do shit with 3 octaves of mini-keys. Come on Yamaha! Make a 5 or 6 octave full size version of this and I'm sold!
I was hoping by now someone had a module conversion kit for the Reface series. Imagine losing the mini keys and placing the sound engine inside a smaller box with proper midi in's and out's. Who knows Yamaha may do their own boutique modules.
Well, after all the dust has settled and the hype has begun to die down, pre-release, I have to say the demo videos of these Reface keyboards have really sold me on sound. They look a bit basic on the face of it but the sound quality is excellent and the features seem to open up the easy. Nice work Yamaha, I will be investing.
+Yamaha Corporation of America I bought the 1st DX of the first batch that came to the north east of Scotland today. It'll be with me very shortly. very excited. I have a silly amount of synths but I haven't been this excited since the FS1r for an FM. thanks.
This is great news. If you share any videos feel free to let us know and we can check them out. We are excited to hear about your first experiences with reface!
This is pretty awesome. Hard to find a nice tweakable organ at this price and it sounds great though it would be very very cool if they offered it in a few colours.
Sounds are great. Would be an excellent portable busking keyboard. I wonder how many of these sell in high density cities in Asia where space is a premium? Some of the naysayers maybe haven't thought through who the market for these are? The user interface seems really well thought out.
shabbee I 100% agree! I have the Korg Krome as well and it does everything! It's basically a Kronos w/ a different name. I'm thinking of getting this alongside my Nord Piano 3 since I don't care for none of the organs on there. Just waiting what my gyrl thinks. She approves all my equipments. 😌
The whole point (it seems to me) is being able to reprofile the sound in real time while performing, according to the emotional and environmental exigencies of that moment in time, and for that, modern interfaces (touch screens and menus) frankly suck.
Is there a looper, too? If not. Why does not Yamaha licence a proper looper technology from Phil Tipping? Sequetron by Phil Tipping is a phenomenal looper, so contact Phil and check if you can license this original technology? All reface users who do not want to wait for Yamaha licensing or adding a powerful looper into reface, simply check Sequetron by Phil Tipping. It can force to scale, chords, held notes and much more, there is nothing like it I know. Vangelis and Tangerine Dreamers will love it.
@@NiRo_90125 Thanks, I get it. Actually I owned one, come to think of it. As a teenager, it was my first major purchase after my Honda 90. I'm surprised you didn't include me in your list ;-)
@@Gottenhimfella Well I didn't include myself either lol. I got the YC-45D. It's my favorite organ and I use it as my main keyboard instrument. It's a boat anchor to lug around though.
It looks like a toy, but then so were combo keyboards :) I will keep my Motif which can do good enough combo organs, but heck, if you loved combo organs back in the day and need a mini version, maybe this is for you
One of the coolest in the ReFace family. But the fuzz sounds like noise. The fuzz on the original YC-45D was growling and biting! th-cam.com/video/60ptrEncP-U/w-d-xo.htmlm39s
Sorry have a YC 30 and think this Organ sounds not like the original. I think the sound character is too thin and cold. The YC has a more warm sound. I am sorry but for me the "YC-imitation" has failed
It's also not that fucking authentic, wadsmitter. Some people don't want to wire together a frankenstein facsimile of an instrument, they want a real instrument.
Compared to the Nord Stage 2, this compares less favourably than the CP pianos version, which actually sounds better than some of the older Nord piano libraries! The YC interface looks nice with those retro coloured switches but it sounds like a fraud.
Why does this even exist? A serious Organ player wouldnt touch those keys in a million years, and you dont play organ unless your a serious player...maybe Westminster Cathedral has a USB midi input?
Vince Watson "you dont play organ unless your a serious player" I don't understand how you came to this conclusion. Maybe someone wants to learn the keyboard but they prefer organ sounds over piano sounds. You seem to believe there's only one kind of musician when in fact everyone is a musician. The Casiotones of the 1980s were a hit for a reason, meditate on the truth of this.
Rhombus Labs My point was that Organ's in 2015 are generally played by proper keyboard musicians or sessions players. Perhaps your confusing 1980's new with 2015's. If you honestly believe any young aspiring musicians who have been brought up with iPads, are going to spend the paper round savings on this instead of something else i.e Omnisphere 2 (WHICH IS CHEAPER)...then good luck with your meditations, you might be there a while looking for the truths you seek thats for sure.
It's not for me but if someone wants to hit those NY gospel house notes, it's not a bad organ for them. Same with the FM keyboard that is shamelessly 80's; nothing there for me but there will be people screaming for that sound.
the wimpiest of the series. most digital artificial sounding, with lifeless leslie sim and overdrive sounding more like distorting a solid state amp. the CP sounds but a notch better, but also terrible modelling on the overdrive. reface dx is the only true standout of the four, imo. especially combined with a midi ctrl.
Where did you forget the CS?This and DX and CP are the best ones,YC is no slouch at all,but I'm not into organs,so skipped on this one,but have the other three refaces.
Horrible, cheesy sounding organ, this. I'm not looking forward to hearing these all over the place - I hope that doesn't happen. The drawbars are nice, and attracted me until I heard the thing. Odd no-one ever seems to ask if you can use it as a two manual organ when you plug your full-size keyboard in via MIDI. Surely they've thought of that - plugging two keyboards in and allocating a different sound to each? If not, you're better getting an old organ off ebay for £20 or less, which is what I did. Mine's got bass pedals, too, which they don't seem to have thought of either.
Well, I suppose if you have one of these Reface things, portability is an advantage when everyone gets sick of hearing it. ;) For portable organ sounds, though, I'd use a Casio CTK900 - full sized five octave keyboard, but very light, and excellent organ sounds with the option of editable parameters.
good sound,,organ type hammond,,farfisa,,vox continental yamaha organ rotary percusion effect,,overdrive,,,,,,,,,,,,very very bad mini keys,,,3 oktav???????????? home hobbi studio,,,,,,toys
Love it. What a great sounding organ! And it sounds unusually great when it gets dense. Like, a lot of synths nowadays seems to be having problem mixing polyphony in a way that makes sense. This sounds very natural as the polyphony goes high.
cuckoomusic that's a really good point. I think the huge recent expansion of new synths has forced a lot of aggressive cost-cutting. It makes a korg triton feel like a muscle car.
cuckoomusic Glad you are enjoying what you hear.
i realize it's pretty randomly asking but do anybody know a good website to watch newly released tv shows online?
@Tanner Marley ehh I'd suggest Flixportal. Just google for it :) -roberto
@Roberto Torin thank you, signed up and it seems to work :) I really appreciate it!
Lol.. I keep listening to this over and over again :) Surprisingly, I find this one the most "true to what it is", and the most compelling of the four new Reface Yamaha mini keyboards. I did absolutely not expect that.
Now, two years later, do you still feel the same way about the YC? I ended up purchasing the CP and the YC. As you stated above, it seems like these two are quite true to their specific instrument. I think a lot of people will be mad they missed out on these when they're gone.
I'd be curious how this compares with the Ferrofish B4000+
Rich Newman Already got the CP. YC is next on my list!
@@pcuimac I just ordered both, the CP had to come from overseas but the YC was in country, so I should have it within days, and that's the one I'm most excited about. The Lesliie simulation alone has me weak at the knees. I've only ever played them in music shops, in the early 70s, when the prospect of having access to one was about as plausble as having a ski run with Jean Claude Killy.
But what my budget did run to, and my first "adult" (teen) purchase, was a YC20, and it was fantastic. And the same colour as this, incluing the drawbars and sliders...
Loved that ambient SYNTH + grandious dance pad take at the end
That’s how it’s done thank you sir! Wonderful playing and positive personality.
Looks like two brothers lol.
I own 2 original YC series organs, and I absolutely love the idea of bringing them back, even in a digital context, but I can't do shit with 3 octaves of mini-keys. Come on Yamaha! Make a 5 or 6 octave full size version of this and I'm sold!
I was hoping by now someone had a module conversion kit for the Reface series. Imagine losing the mini keys and placing the sound engine inside a smaller box with proper midi in's and out's. Who knows Yamaha may do their own boutique modules.
its red, with built in Vibrator... :)
ollilaboratories wonder if batteries are included? :)
Jackson Reindl he meant what he wrote.
+ollilaboratories Multiple organs! lol
...and you have to finger it. :P
Well, after all the dust has settled and the hype has begun to die down, pre-release, I have to say the demo videos of these Reface keyboards have really sold me on sound. They look a bit basic on the face of it but the sound quality is excellent and the features seem to open up the easy. Nice work Yamaha, I will be investing.
We appreciate your support. Glad you love it!
+Yamaha Corporation of America I bought the 1st DX of the first batch that came to the north east of Scotland today. It'll be with me very shortly. very excited. I have a silly amount of synths but I haven't been this excited since the FS1r for an FM. thanks.
This is great news. If you share any videos feel free to let us know and we can check them out. We are excited to hear about your first experiences with reface!
This is pretty awesome. Hard to find a nice tweakable organ at this price and it sounds great though it would be very very cool if they offered it in a few colours.
Sounds are great. Would be an excellent portable busking keyboard. I wonder how many of these sell in high density cities in Asia where space is a premium? Some of the naysayers maybe haven't thought through who the market for these are? The user interface seems really well thought out.
You can use NiMH accumulators instead of normal one-way batteries.
Amazing sounding rig!
If I were a "little person," this would be perfect! Come on Yamaha.
Dude with glasses:Beautiful colour
The other dude :Thank you
Dude with glasses:uhm I was talking about the keyboard
The other dude :Thank you
🤣
It appears that Yamaha are taking on Bontempi!
astrophonix Actually Yamaha has a long history with Organs.
Please. . . take all four and make them modules with proper ins/outs and just call it a day.
The dongle is a USBMIDI DIN adapter? I can hear some fists being jangled furiously in Bristol!
sounds pretty good!
Thanks!
"Vee-bra-toe. It's safer." Classic.
very endearing the whole range! but suddenly I realise that a Korg KROME will do everything in one board. Full size keys, touch screen etc
shabbee I 100% agree! I have the Korg Krome as well and it does everything! It's basically a Kronos w/ a different name. I'm thinking of getting this alongside my Nord Piano 3 since I don't care for none of the organs on there. Just waiting what my gyrl thinks. She approves all my equipments. 😌
The whole point (it seems to me) is being able to reprofile the sound in real time while performing, according to the emotional and environmental exigencies of that moment in time, and for that, modern interfaces (touch screens and menus) frankly suck.
Again, 1u rack format please :) *We are already overfeed with desktops and other keys*
Just what I was thinking. Otherwise I can see an opportunity for some enterprising third party to creat a 'reface module kit'.
Nick, will you be doing a proper review of this and the CP?
Is there a looper, too? If not.
Why does not Yamaha licence a proper looper technology from Phil Tipping? Sequetron by Phil Tipping is a phenomenal looper, so contact Phil and check if you can license this original technology? All reface users who do not want to wait for Yamaha licensing or adding a powerful looper into reface, simply check Sequetron by Phil Tipping. It can force to scale, chords, held notes and much more, there is nothing like it I know. Vangelis and Tangerine Dreamers will love it.
It's portable red can use with 2hands takes batteries and has vibrator? I think they might have a crack in the market for this
YAMAHA, please make a full size Reface YC?
You mean, the YC61, 73 and 88?
@@Gottenhimfella He means the original 70's YC combo organs. The ones used by Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Miles Davis, Donald Fagen and so on.
@@NiRo_90125 Thanks, I get it.
Actually I owned one, come to think of it. As a teenager, it was my first major purchase after my Honda 90. I'm surprised you didn't include me in your list ;-)
@@Gottenhimfella Well I didn't include myself either lol. I got the YC-45D. It's my favorite organ and I use it as my main keyboard instrument. It's a boat anchor to lug around though.
Great, I've got one. Sounds amazing, but, NO SPLIT!!! How about a firmware update?
Bert looks like he's played with quite a few organs..
It looks like a toy, but then so were combo keyboards :) I will keep my Motif which can do good enough combo organs, but heck, if you loved combo organs back in the day and need a mini version, maybe this is for you
One of the coolest in the ReFace family. But the fuzz sounds like noise. The fuzz on the original YC-45D was growling and biting!
th-cam.com/video/60ptrEncP-U/w-d-xo.htmlm39s
Sorry have a YC 30 and think this Organ sounds not like the original. I think the sound character is too thin and cold. The YC has a more warm sound. I am sorry but for me the "YC-imitation" has failed
How does it sound without external speakers?
hey amigo muy bueno saludos desde tijuana
Why didn't they make a dual manual minikey organ? I would have bought it just to give a lil bro to my Nord C2D!
Manuel Giorgi just but two...
Five different kind of organs: stomach, liver, kidneys, lungs and heart. :-))
LMAO "whats that lil doo-dah"
Sounds good. Not enough keys and they're too little. Sticking with my Nord C2 :)
It's perfect for me. same specs as my accordion.
@@Phillip-y6d same here :)
Its sad that everywhere is out of stock on all the Yamaha Reface Pianos
I got a CP from Sweetwater a few days back (at least, they took my order)
@@Gottenhimfella I got a used one off of replay website, oh its everything I wanted in a portable synth
My YC is finally shipping. Ordered it back in November.
It sounds very nice and... I am tired of the weight of mi Nord.
W.A.N.T.
Vibrator?
Full some!
Does it feel like a toy?
Actually from memory, its pretty well built
Not at all.
Bert lookslike he's played with quite a few organs..
Yamaha finally makes a clonewheel.... and then slaps on mini keys.
Fucking facepalm, Yamaha. Facepalm.
It's also not that fucking authentic, wadsmitter. Some people don't want to wire together a frankenstein facsimile of an instrument, they want a real instrument.
Compared to the Nord Stage 2, this compares less favourably than the CP pianos version, which actually sounds better than some of the older Nord piano libraries! The YC interface looks nice with those retro coloured switches but it sounds like a fraud.
The clean sounds are pretty nice but when it comes to distortion I had to puke.
Bert seems like he's played with quite a few organs..
10s of thousands of mini keyboards and none with Farfisa...really stupid.
It sounds thin, almost like a toy.
Why does this even exist? A serious Organ player wouldnt touch those keys in a million years, and you dont play organ unless your a serious player...maybe Westminster Cathedral has a USB midi input?
Vince Watson "you dont play organ unless your a serious player" I don't understand how you came to this conclusion. Maybe someone wants to learn the keyboard but they prefer organ sounds over piano sounds. You seem to believe there's only one kind of musician when in fact everyone is a musician. The Casiotones of the 1980s were a hit for a reason, meditate on the truth of this.
Rhombus Labs My point was that Organ's in 2015 are generally played by proper keyboard musicians or sessions players. Perhaps your confusing 1980's new with 2015's. If you honestly believe any young aspiring musicians who have been brought up with iPads, are going to spend the paper round savings on this instead of something else i.e Omnisphere 2 (WHICH IS CHEAPER)...then good luck with your meditations, you might be there a while looking for the truths you seek thats for sure.
Amazing that you've spent your time trolling every instrument! Why? Is your time worth so little?
jamie munro Trolling? I watched all 4 video's and commented on them. How is that trolling exactly? Because my opinion isn the same as yours?
It's not for me but if someone wants to hit those NY gospel house notes, it's not a bad organ for them. Same with the FM keyboard that is shamelessly 80's; nothing there for me but there will be people screaming for that sound.
Completely wrong form-factor for anyone remotely interested in an organ-only instrument, IMHO.
the wimpiest of the series. most digital artificial sounding, with lifeless leslie sim and overdrive sounding more like distorting a solid state amp.
the CP sounds but a notch better, but also terrible modelling on the overdrive.
reface dx is the only true standout of the four, imo. especially combined with a midi ctrl.
Where did you forget the CS?This and DX and CP are the best ones,YC is no slouch at all,but I'm not into organs,so skipped on this one,but have the other three refaces.
Bert is kinda creepy.
He's trying to sell something.
That's always creepy.
Too bad this has mini keys. DUMBEST IDEA EVER IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND.
Just connect a midi controller keyboard to it.
Once again, Yamaha gets it wrong...
Horrible, cheesy sounding organ, this. I'm not looking forward to hearing these all over the place - I hope that doesn't happen. The drawbars are nice, and attracted me until I heard the thing. Odd no-one ever seems to ask if you can use it as a two manual organ when you plug your full-size keyboard in via MIDI. Surely they've thought of that - plugging two keyboards in and allocating a different sound to each? If not, you're better getting an old organ off ebay for £20 or less, which is what I did. Mine's got bass pedals, too, which they don't seem to have thought of either.
Well, I suppose if you have one of these Reface things, portability is an advantage when everyone gets sick of hearing it. ;) For portable organ sounds, though, I'd use a Casio CTK900 - full sized five octave keyboard, but very light, and excellent organ sounds with the option of editable parameters.
for the price, just buy two
Does have Yamaha ReFaces ANALOG or DIGITAL oscilators? If digital, I dont need another poor china rompler toy, I am a musician...
+Countrymetalman sorry, but the nature of your oscilators dont make you a musician. I think they are analog, btw
If you have to ask...
@@notazx digital
good sound,,organ type hammond,,farfisa,,vox continental yamaha organ rotary percusion effect,,overdrive,,,,,,,,,,,,very very bad mini keys,,,3 oktav???????????? home hobbi studio,,,,,,toys
you're allowed to end a sentence
Instant Flop