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C12 – Wah-Wah Clavinet
Clavinet through a wah-wah pedal - a classic funk sound.
C13 - Amped Clav 1
Clavinet through a guitar amp on overdrive.
C14 - Amped Clav 2
Overdriven, amped clavinet sound.
C15 - Amped Clav 3
Clavinet through a different guitar amp.
C16 - Amped Clav 4
Clavinet through amp with slight overdrive.
YAMAHA KEYBOARDS D1 thru D11
With groundbreaking FM instruments like the GS1 and GS2, its
mega-selling DX series of synths and its innovative CP electric grand
pianos, Yamaha easily lived up to the claim made by one of its DX7
wall posters, which promoted the DX7 as being just as significant an
invention as the light bulb. Many companies claim to have products in
development for a significant time before they come to market, but in
Yamaha's case development was (and continues to be) years ahead
of a product's actual release. Sometimes as many as ten years.
A very astute young Yamaha engineer by the name of Mr. Ichimura
was dispatched to Stanford University in 1971 to observe a form of
synthesis invented by electronic music teacher John Chowning.
Chowning's associates had convinced him that his synthesis method,
called FM (Frequency Modulation) might be of interest to organ
companies. Chowning had approached several other organ
manufacturers, none of whom were either interested or even
understood what it was. Mr. Ichimura understood, and the result was
that Yamaha took a ten-year license out on FM technology. The first
commercial FM product was the GS1, released in 1982. Its asking
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