Yamaha S5531
- SYN WAVE 1
Yamaha S5531 Syn Wave 1 audio demos in .mp3 format:
Sound card set composed of the D5531-01 data card and W5531 waveform card. Expands the SY/TG55 with 64 new patches and 16 new waveforms. Focus in on synth waveforms. In particular, "NewroStr" is a great synth string waveform:
| No. | Name | Audio examples | My comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| C01 | 1990th | Voices 1-8.mp3 | Brass sound that is curiously analog and realistic sounding at the same time. |
| C02 | Majesty | Lush and full synth strings. | |
| C03 | Active | Early 80's polyphonic analog synth style brass sound. | |
| C04 | Heavy | Another synth bass sound. | |
| C05 | Pluck'n | Synth bass from the 80's. | |
| C06 | DreamPd | String pad. | |
| C07 | Noble | Nice Baroque strings for scoring. | |
| C08 | Sunrise | Slightly detuned synthesizer sound reminiscent of Keith Emerson style. The sun rises with the MW. | |
| C09 | Synfony | Voices 9-16.mp3 | Great Moog emulation. Lots of reverb. |
| C10 | Glassy | Sparkling Rhodes sound. | |
| C11 | Twinbel | Cool percussion/marimba sound. | |
| C12 | Dazling | Digital sounding comp synth. | |
| C13 | Elepian | Not so special electric piano. | |
| C14 | "Hit!!" | Orchestra hit + crash. | |
| C15 | Grandum | Synth horns with filtered attack. | |
| C16 | KeenBR | Brass and metal noise. | |
| C17 | Mild. | Voices 17-24.mp3 | Gentler analog brass. |
| C18 | Tight | Fast envelope synth brass. | |
| C19 | +Horn | And yet another synth brass sound! | |
| C20 | Metaliz | Too many synth brass sounds in this card... | |
| C21 | Pop. | They just won't stop. | |
| C22 | Rezo | Cool Techno bass with resonance. | |
| C23 | Metal | FM'ish synth bass. | |
| C24 | Kick! | Moog'ish synth bass. | |
| C25 | SynEGtr | Voices 25-32.mp3 | Definitely not a synth electric guitar, if that's what the programmer meant in the abbreviation. Come on, it's another synth brass sound! |
| C26 | StrDust | Aaah... Here's a great one! I'm a sucker for these kinds of dreamy, romantic sounds! | |
| C27 | Drop | Quick, somebody call the plumber to fix the drain pipe! | |
| C28 | Twiligt | Maybe it's because I like Ennio Morricone a lot, but strings and synth strings... I love them all. These have a choir in them, too. | |
| C29 | Wind | ...chimes, I suppose. | |
| C30 | DigiGtr | Sounds like a... digi guitar! | |
| C31 | OldPoly | Too clean and digital too sound like an old analog poly. | |
| C32 | ResoClv | Synth clavi sound that works as a bass, too. | |
| C33 | PanPipe | Voices 33-40.mp3 | Good for those drunken renditions of "El Condor Pasa". Or for New Age. |
| C34 | Mellow | What's this? Another synth brass mixed with acoustic guitar? | |
| C35 | Melanco | 70's style synthesizer. | |
| C36 | Lonely | Chiffy and nice synth pad. | |
| C37 | SparkCH | A choir with an electric piano attack. | |
| C38 | Woody | Good to score a scene of a Disney cartoon. | |
| C39 | Glsphon | Nice percussive sound with breathy attack. | |
| C40 | Dulcium | A strange plucked sound, a cross between a harpsichord, a piano and a guitar. | |
| C41 | Clicker | Voices 41-48.mp3 | Does what it says. |
| C42 | Glsimba | Nice. Glass marimba. | |
| C43 | ItoChim | The Itopia sample + a chime sound. | |
| C44 | SynWave | Cool sound effect, with pitch slide and warbly filter effect. | |
| C45 | Success | The synth brass sounds are back! | |
| C46 | Apollo | Nice spacey sound, good to score Sci-Fi, lost in space kind of movies. | |
| C47 | Illusion | Okay solo sound. | |
| C48 | Be Hot! | Great emulation of a Hammond, 60's style. | |
| C49 | Steel | Voices 49-56.mp3 | Very metallic acoustic piano. |
| C50 | Cutting | Piano with a click. | |
| C51 | StrngPF | Good ol' piano+strings sound. | |
| C52 | MIDI PF | A cross between an acoustic and an electric piano. | |
| C53 | Fairy | Breathy electric piano. | |
| C54 | Shinin' | Another glassy electric piano | |
| C55 | Fredy | Scary sound for scary scenes. | |
| C56 | Stadium | Bass and snare with reverse gate reverb. | |
| C57 | BD&SD | Voices 57-64.mp3 | Processed bass and snare drums. |
| C58 | HiHats | Processed open and closed hi-hats | |
| C59 | Pc&Reso | Analog conga and zap sounds. | |
| C60 | Claves | Claves with nice reverb. | |
| C61 | Claps | Synthetic sounding hand claps. | |
| C62 | Cowbel | The TR-808 cowbell. | |
| C63 | Electry | Electronic sounding processed drum-set. | |
| C64 | Dance | Nice, tight drums. |
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