Bad Gear - Yamaha DJX - Kid’s Keyboard???
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Welcome to Bad Gear, the show about the world's most hated audio tools. Today we are going to talk about the OG Yamaha DJX. Is it nothing but a Kid's Keyboard???
We used to have television now we have a Austrian guy talking about toys. Life is improving
Welcome to the future ;)
@Layton Ibrahim bot
Progress....they can’t stop it.
Someone once said that in the future professional studios and home computer users would be putting out entertainment of comparable production values. The future is now, baby! :D
No flying cars though...
I used to have to sell these! Toys R Us was my weekend job and I was the only person who could remotely play keyboards. It kept me entertained on quiet days in the shop!
That doesn't sound like a bad job at all ;)
@@AudioPilz No. I actually was impressed with it at the time it sounded really decent. The sampler sold it to a lot of people although I had to spend a lot of time clearing the sampler of swear words! after those pesky kids had found the sample function hilarious!
I absolutely love the terminology for the descriptions for the tunes cracks me up
Thank you!
I get back to this video occasionally after having sold it a year ago due to money problems. Bit sad but it's nice to know that it went to someone who also was very enthusiastic about its sounds as I was. I may have had it since I was pretty much born but it did get me into music production and as long as it can do that to others I hope it'll be handed down or sold onto other people in the many years to come.
I'm glad to have recorded and samples every single preset pattern and song too including intro and outro parts lol, they're fine cheese.
That's OK. Gear, it comes and goes...
Your attitude about that makes me feel warm and fuzzy lol
Just got this thing for $100 at GC and it felt like a steal compared to the other prices floating around online. ($300-450) It’s a great lo-fi/old school hip hop production instrument
Damn, I really wish your 𝗡𝗢 𝗤𝗨𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗔𝗦𝗞𝗘𝗗 𝗛𝗬𝗣𝗘𝗥-𝗘𝗡𝗘𝗥𝗚𝗘𝗧𝗜𝗖 𝟭𝟮𝟳 𝗩𝗘𝗟𝗢𝗖𝗜𝗧𝗬 𝗣𝗜𝗔𝗡𝗢 𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗦𝗘 𝗣𝗛𝗜𝗟𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗣𝗛𝗨𝗡𝗞 track was a full song! It's a banger!
No plug but: the full track is on Patreon ;)
@@AudioPilz 😏Sweet!
it bangs
That track actually slaps. Absolutely sick.
Love it too!!
Shout out to the "H" note on the keyboard. I thought we stopped using that centuries ago?! 2:39
Yeah, very continental ;)
What, your alphabet doesn't go in A-H-C-D-E-F-G order?
Most of the Germanic countries still use it to my knowledge. I was taught the German system in Swedish school back in the 90s at least, but then today it's very hard to find Swedish language music text books, so most of the widely available stuff uses the American system instead (hesitate to call it English system since we don't have quavers or crotchets or whatever either way, regardless of the note names we use 8ths, 16ths etc.).
@@Yuzuki1337 the German system does have a B too, it's just a semitone above A (or a whole step below C, which I believe is the point).
@@fisk0 Yep, in Germany it is H and B whereas elsewhere it is B and B-Flat. And all this just because some ancient monk didn't close the loop at the bottom of the "b" later misread as "h".
We've got two of it. The first one for my son, ebay 25 €, the second one get as gift, when I bought an acustic guitar , but yellow potis and keyboard, from a strong smoking musician. Good sounding machine.
True! Previous owners with bad habits add to the character of the machine;)
The song you made with it is fantastic!!! Made me dig mine out and use it again!!
Thanks!
AudioPilz nailing it. I use to make breakbeats with this machine in the early 2000s... Respekt AudioPillen für die Ausgrabung...nicht nur für Kinder!
Thanks! Is that what autotranslates makes out of my name? ;)
Thank you for all
Thanks for watching!!!
I accidentally bought used one 12 years ago. And I absolutely love it ... I still got it always waiting for me to be played ;)
How do you accidentally buy a synth? ;)
@@AudioPilz I was aiming to buy different one (CS1x), but bidding went too high. So, instantly I decided to buy something similar and there was auction for this one just ending in minutes with no bids... I bid and I won it! And I never regret it. Even my daughter loves our djx ...
I had one of these and a TX81Z as a teenager. I used to send the built-in patterns as MIDI out to the TX81Z, which certainly made the patterns sound much more alien that they sounded on the DJX.
TX81Z is actually really nice
Man, I sure loved mine and was sad when I had to sell it because I was moving out of state. Fun to revisit what a fun little keyboard this was, thanks so much for the memories!
Thanks for watching!
I love the cheese this synth puts out. Think I'm going to find a used one for my son. I also love how you make cheese sound like caviar :D
Thank you so much!
(I'm a little late to this one, but whatever.)
This is one of the few channels where I keep the notifications on. At the end of every increasingly stressful week of organic chemistry and writing intensive biology courses I check my phone and see a notification for a new Bad Gear episode and it illuminates my day. This channel has been a massive source of inspiration and growth for music production, and for challenging my creative approach with the gear I already own. A great medication for GAS. AudioPilz has cemented itself onto my list of creators to support on Patreon once I have a legitimate source of income.
Thank you :)
Thank you so much! It means a lot to me
the 127 velocity track sounds like a 90s track but with good quality sounds for that genre,very CS1xy
Thanks!
I am a huge Residents fan too. I knew you were cool for some reason, and now I know.
Happy to hear that, thanks!
Wish I still had mine. It was my first keyboard. Gave it away after acquiring some "real" synths. It was hard to really take advantage of its quirkiness. Glad you used the "voices" in the track.
It's quirky indeed
Literally last night I was looking up old Yamaha PSR and DJX keyboards and found Gearfacts' videos and then today you upload this...
Glynn was a real inspiration in that one!
Well it certainly did impress me as a 13 y. o. kid when I've had a chance to play it at a local Yamaha synth exhibition back in 1998
Maybe it was for the better that I DIDN'T get one of these as a teen ;)
digitakt + anything = pleasure zone 1000max
great job bro!
Thanks!
Another great video. As Wooden Allen would say, “you have the most”
Thanks!
I got that djx in 2000. I loved it was an upgrade from my Casio concertmate. I'm going to buy another 1 offline. I made some heat with it
Not bad.
I had more fun than I should have had ;)
This was the first keyboard I bought in like 1997-1998, it was super fun and I eventually upgraded to the RM1x in 1999 or 2000. I miss the ribbon controller. The fact that you couldn't save anything was a shortcoming.
RM1x is on top of my list. Such a great sequencer and super 90s sounds
@@AudioPilz I pulled it out when I was rebuilding my “studio” (read corner behind my desk chair). It powered up fine and all of my songs on floppy disk loaded properly. I always wanted an MC505 but couldn’t afford it. I’m happy with the RM1x though and eventually paired it up with a Korg Karma which was a whole different beast.
I went from the DJX to the RM1x too, but most of the latter's buttons stopped working after a while. It didn't occur to me at the time that I could have connected it to a DAW to use it as a sound module, so I ended up chucking it out. I still have the DJX in a cupboard somewhere, but wish I'd kept the RM1x instead!
Geez, I wish I had *that* as a kid. Yamaha’s PSS-130 was my entry. Thankfully that didn’t kill my music ambitions.
That one instantly turned you into the cool kid (I didn't have one of course;)
Sehr schönes Video, wie immer! :)
Ich mag den Sound vom DJX, aber dieses Gehäuse... Der DJX im Gehäuse des CS1x bzw. AN1x, das wär was
Besten Dank! Ja, da ist schon viel Plastik im Spiel😅
I'd love to find one at a garage sale for ten bucks. Finally, someone remembered to staple a filter onto the end of their ROMpler!
They're still quite affordable!
Geez , you just keep getting more and more cool , Residents fan !?!?! awesome!!!
Thanks! I even worked at one of their shows
@@AudioPilz did you get to wear a giant eyeball hat?
The DJX, and even better the DJXII, keyboard and desktop were some of Yamaha's best products near the top of that long list. Just plain fun to mess with. No manuals needed.
I have to admit that I had to read the manual twice for some aspects of the keyboard😂
In 2001, I worked for the major musical instruments dealer in Canada and we had the DJXII available to rent, so, I brought it home and sampled the shit out of it, into my E-MU E5000. There was some really nice stabs and other sounds in there, that at the time, were unique, yet wildly oldskool sounding, which was perfect for the Jungle tracks I was making . I still have these samples lying around to this day!
Totally liked the sound FX on this one!!!
Bought one last month mint condition boxed for £100 very happy
Cool, that one is a keeper!
I LOVE this keyboard. My old duo with Dino Felipe used this in conjunction with our, then hot, sexy and new Korg ES1s on our FANTASY ROXX disc in 2000. We were doing a kind of proto hypnagogic pop / vaporwave noise thing so, this was perfect. I miss it. Way too expensive now!!
True, prices are crazy
This was an awesome keyboard when it came out! I owned one, and loved it. It was very limited as a production unit (internally), but it was fun as hell to play! I always paired it up with other keyboards I owned at the time.
True, it really shines in a more complex setup
It's halfway stretch between minimalistic and versatile could actually work because that can force you to be extra creative. Combine such an instrument with a good multitrack solution and the world can still be your oyster. By the way: AWM (advanced Wave Memory) = Yamaha oldspeak for ROMpling. They used the term to paint over the fact that they where starting to wear out their FM advantage and had to start following others again. Not that the instruments which combined FM with AWM wheren't crackers. After the TX81Z and it's keyboard version (DX 100?) it provided an even better option to avoid FM's "dominant sinoid sustain syndrome". :-)
True! It was Yamaha's answer to Roland's LA synthesis
You're such a talented person bro!
Thanks!
Nice!
You made the video! I missed it today somehow!
Thanks for watching!!!
Say what you want I made several albums with this joint and even almost got signed in my opinion because of this keyboard I loved it!
Nice! Respect!
You make bad gear sound so... good.
Thanks!
I had the DJX-IIb with the grey, white keyboard. Seen at 4:31. Oh memories.
Well, it was way cheaper than the Quasimidi Sirius. :`(
I'm afraid it is just a matter of time😢
I was at that time the German PROMOTER at Yamaha for this Keyboard. Was my start in the PROMOTION wold. A hard hard way to learn... I ve done workshops and presentations in Stores and other events.... puh hard hard time
Oh, Mr. Acid! Tough job!
Oh ja, harte Schule. hat mich fürs leben geprägt...wirklich.
ah man, The Residents.commercial album, such a classic. everything Ralph records.
Legend!
Yamaha DJX 3! The world awaits.
Agreed!!!
Haha excellent entertainment once again as always keep em coming Mr Bad Gear you are on to a winner fo sho 😁👌
Thanks!
7:29 Sounds like something straight out of WarioWare (a Jimmy T. stage or something)
The game soundtrack feel is always strong with the jams
You may showcase Bad Gear... But your video production is *TOP SHELF* :)
Thank you so much!
The notes sticker on the keyboard is a cool touch. Are you learning how to play keyboard again?
Again? ;)
I've had an SK-1, A Yamaha PSS-480 and a variety of other "kids" or "consumer" keyboards. My favorite thing to do was to try and push them into nasty, crunchy territory where they were never meant to go. 90% of all presets on everything are hot garbage; even worse when you can't modify them at all.
Hook em up to a Marshall stack!!! ;)
Had one for couple weeks in the early 00s and traded it in for a Fizmo. Speaking of Bad Gear in need of review... 😄
I'd love a Fizmo, apparently super rare and hard to find nowadays, they only produced around 2000 units
Damn, these Fizmos have become so rare!!!
@@AudioPilz From wiki: 'An estimated 500-2,000 standard units were manufactured; an even smaller run of 100-500 rack units were produced'
Crazy. I just had a look on ebay and there's one going for 2500 UK pounds
Extra rare thanks to a bad power regulator frying a bunch! 😬 I unintentionally got in on the right side of the "who needs physical gear, computers are the future" craze that bottomed out the used markets.
@@ClifBratcher Yeah that was a funny time, things where so cheap. A friend told me she had an old 'organ' in her attic, and if I wanted it (this was around 15 years ago), anyway she got it from the attic and it was a Juno 6 (her family had no idea what it was) - needless to say I took it off her hands haha. At the time it was worth about 300 quid but now they go for over a grand. Not worth that at all, but that's the way it is I guess.
You should cover some European home keyboards.... the 90s GEMs were an absolute horror, as were the Elkas.
Great idea!!!
Wowww so my dad just brought my DJX from Christmas '98 over to my house last week, and now here we are. Unfortunately my knobs are all dead for some reason, as are the 1-4-7 row of numbers. Absolutely no idea what to do or how to fix that. >:(
I found some spare parts for the DJX2 maybe there are some available for the OG too
I still have mine and my kids use it.
So the title is not only clickbait;)
@@AudioPilz Thanks! I learned a lot from this video - never thought about connecting it to an external sequencer and effects. I’m not an advanced user but I love the music
Yep. It sounds like my CS1x. Given that it has more to offer than being just a synth, this toy is a bargain.
I also thought it to be very CS1xish
I had one in 1998! I loved it. Kinda..... 😝
I had more fun with it than I should have had ;)
Baffling kit, lol.
Fine irony aside you mnage to give those artifacts of their time a pretty respectful treatment overall. Classy (;
Thanks!
I have one of these puppies since the release (was a gift from my parents) and, I don't know, the sequencer may not be the best on earth, but I never had any major issues with it?!
It definitely works but I was barely able to get music out of it. Respect if you made it work for you!!!
@@AudioPilz Oh I'm not saying it is perfect :D But it did worked reasonably well for the need I had. It was way easier and more friendly than the sequencer of my Triton extreme, that I still don't know how to use xD
And for the DJX, for me it is clearly not a keyboard meant for "pianists" as unlike most keyboard it boot up in a mode where you need to press at least 6-7 keys to play some "piano", but I really enjoyed it as a way to play without annoying people around xD
(I don't remember the patch number for the main "GM" piano, but you need to press the two button to disable the part select and chord section, unset the "sync" mode that start the rhythm, then type the patch for the piano or whatever instrument you want to use (followed by enter to validate) that makes about 6-7 keys to press, which, I would have really liked it to not start with all of that setup, and there is no setting to change that :(
But for a pure ROMpler, the sounds are quite nice, the included rythms are not too cheesy, there were better one on the market even at that time, but for the price it was packed with a lot of things!
And I sadly don't have mine with me, but it had the same set of battery in it for more than 10 years and still have kept my stuff in it! (last time I checked which was more than a year ago now... thanks pandemic)
Nice channel! Less Tawk More Rawk!
Thank you!
So RM1X and SU200 next?
Damn, I really have to find an RM1X
What’s your favorite Local H song?
Me: 3:37
It's a European thing;)
Nice slippers 🐯
Thanks! Super cosy!!!
Me: Commented on every single video Florian has ever made on this channel except last week
Florian: He must be dead?! ...probably
Happy to know you're alive!!!
This was the first musical instrument i bought, already owned a cheesy yamaha psr something, which my parents got me for xmas, years previous, i bought the djx the day it was released.
I found the sequencer easy to use, but then i had nothing else to compare it to back then, and the memory was piss poor, you could make a half decent trance or techno track with it, but running out of memory was always in the back of your mind. But in all honesty, i loved my djx, made quite a few dance tracks on it back then and most of the sounds actually sounded pretty sweet back then!
DJX is a great piece of kit!
the yamaha djx2 is the bst keyboard i've ever had
👍
It's a 90's Yamaha keyboard so I have to ask this question:
Does it have a helicopter preset sound?
Of course it does. Isn't that part of the GM specification?
@@AudioPilz It is! I didn't know that much about general midi. So that's why they all have it
Yep I’m convinced: There’s no such thing as bad gear only bad musicians.... like myself 😅😅😅
Great video as usual. Keep ‘em coming!
Thank you so much!
me too...
"...only bad musicians... like myself" When I was a kid I wanted to play guitar really badly. Now, after 40 years of practice and performance, I play guitar really badly. :P
@@mrz80 lol
Naw man there's both lololol
I used the hell out of this keyboard from when I was like 18 years old up until I was about 27 when it finally died. I was into breakcore during those years and all I really cared about was having a synth with good drum kits for drum and bass and jungle and it did that. I would beat the living hell out of this thing and play live break core drums on it. It finally died a while back and my best friend Chris, also my band mate, cracked it open and circuit bent it and we recently made a track with it that will likely end up on my latest album. I have nothing but love for this toy and would own it again but i wouldn't pay more than 100 bucks for it these days
Here's footage from many moons ago of me performing drums with it, this was after my breakcore project, which there isn't a whole lot of footage of those shows online: ruclips.net/video/6fadB2R-nIg/видео.html
Yeah, prices have become a bit crazy
I sold mine for 60, because I might be moving to Austria. It just is so bloody big. I woulda kept it otherwise. Had it since 2000ish until last year.
@@hazmatforhumanity7318 1:35 is nuts! That's some Trent Reznor shit!
It is very interesting, at one time the second version of this tool, when it went on sale, I bought it for $ 100-150 a new one
Haha this was my first ever keyboard at 16
I used to go into the local music shop with my mate and annoy the owner by playing the 'rad' onboard presets. I asked the owner how to play it and he started playing Jazz with some shite organ sound, you can imagine the look of horror on the 2 Prodigy loving 16 year old faces.
Anyway, I begged my parents for it for Christmas, then when I did get it there was talk at my school for me doing a 'live' DJX set at the end of school party 😂
The other day I found a note from a friend in my school leaving book saying 'can't wait to you to smash it with your DJX at the party' - luckily that never happened, although for story's sake I wish it would have.
You were indeed the cooles kid at school
came for the 'synth' stayed for the stories.
Synth makers: here's this wonderful electronica machine.
Synth demoers: LETS PLAY JAZZ
@@DoctorNemmo Haha I think I was the intended market, young kids into dance music that wanted a keyboard with those kinds of patterns, and obviously too young to realize how pants it sounded. But it was all fun.
I think it was a first in the home keyboard world - all the other casio stuff aimed at kids at the time had stuff like 'waltz' & 'swing' etc as patterns
Haha, a good story :-D
We had one of these at school, definitely a trojan horse. Think we played a cover of zombie nation on this thing every lesson for 3 years.
Now I have to listen to that track for the rest of the evening ;)
At my school we had a Juno 106, a W30, a JV synth and a Yamaha MSX based computer.
@@chrishopkins209 So you probably forgot biography, maths and physics??? ;-}
@@R---66---R You had biography at school? i definitely remember other things like biology, but i don't think I've ever had biography class.... :o)
When I was 13 years old, I bought the djx at a used music store simply because it had filter and resonance knobs and an arpeggiator. It was the closest thing that I could find (and afford) to a synthesizer. Over twenty years later it sits in my kids’ playroom.
Passing down the torch!!!
You sure you're ready to raise some little Zoomer rave DJs or modular-synth addicts!? Cause having access to such a funky piece of gear as a little kid is gonna blow their minds in all the right ways and inspire them! I wish I had a mom or dad like you!
Not my first keyboard but the first one at age 13 that made me feel like I was actually creating something. Definitely ignited my obsession with electronic music and synthesizers.
This and Dance eJay
The snobbery from the comments in the video is missing the point that this sort of thing is supposed to be a less daunting gateway to electronic music production than giving a kid a modular , a Digitakt and a 32 track mixer and saying 'off you go'. First thing that got me interested in electronic music was my sister's crappy Casio sampling keyboard.
The great thing about the DJX is that if you got that as a kid you could still use it for real music production lateron
@@kristianTV1974 I love the snobbery in the comments just as much as I love my DJX 1&2....
@@AudioPilz
the arpeggiator presets are amazing, I saved the midi output and use it still to this day.
Absolutely!
true, I recently sold an XP10 keyboard, great arp!
The CS-series and later the AN series are the same
This morning I woke up, thinking: It's friday, almost weekend....OMG, tonight a new episode of Bad Gear. True story! Man, I love this show!
BTW, maybe it's time for a next Bad Gear jam?
Thank you so much! I'm currently struggling with Winter and 'rona restrictions but there's gonna be another one!
90s energy in here is so high that I had to do 8th grade biology homework. No answers given mr. President Captain Jack E-rotic post eurodance youtube core.
Thank you!!!
Oh man a Captain Jack reference.
@@billnetherlands AYK, dude, this whole video is a Captain Jack reference)
@@billnetherlands go to the Village in your
tie-dye jeans
Another one that I still own. Indeed it does have the same sound chip as the CS1X although Yamaha didn't admit to it at the time. There are extra sounds hidden on there which can be found with a little midi programming (voice / bank commands) :)
Yeah, the family resemblance is undeniable;)
meanwhile in Ben Jordan's house "it was right here officer"
Isn't he more of a Roland JX-305 guy? ;)
same thing 😆
i had no idea you liked The Residents! i’ve been working on finding out what synths they used this week. do you have any idea what drum machine they were using on their first few albums?
Not many drum machines around in the late 60s ;)
👁️
@@AudioPilz Most organs had them.. If you want crap gear, look at the Acetone Rhythm Ace. :)
@@AudioPilz I have a 1967 Vox Percussion King, other than the kick drum it's not bad!
Loved this video. My first keyboard. I still remember the crazy day I bought it. I was in Dubai at the time and it was one the hottest days of the year. It cost an arm and a leg, even for a 'toy', and was actually marketed as a 'pro synth'. I had to carry this rather heavy box with me to my friend's house because I had no money left to take a cab. Needless to say, I nearly passed out from the heat, and by the time I got to his place, I collapsed in front of the air conditioner, and slept through the day and night. Hah. Good old days. I eventually did sell the DJX when I moved to the US, but it was my first 'real' keyboard that I was able to make half decent demos on, and the sampler was a lot of fun. The goal was to make a whole album using the DJX (because I had no money to buy anything else), record it to consumer tape, and then send demos out to local record labels in Dubai. Ah, the naivete. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Now I want one again!
Arabian desert heat can be so relentless! I feel you!!!
Great story there
This channel proves that if you are motivated, you’ll make decent music on pretty much anything. My brother had the box version, where the entire interface was a few knobs and a CD for scratching. Demo song was ok, but I just couldn’t be arsed to even work it out
Unfortunately, the box version is much more limited
@@AudioPilz Did the box version have the same guts, just with fewer controls hooked up the PCB, or was it completely different guts?
If you comment here often, you may be a poor musician - but you're definitely an excellent artist!
Many poor musicians are ;)
I loved DJX. It was my first synth. I used it for years as my main MIDI controller, composing tool and practice keyboard. I left it behind when moving houses years ago, because the keys were beginning to break. I've been regretting it ever since...
First love is the deepest🥰
Ayee ive own my djx since 98 an i paired with a yamaha rm1x. An it works like a beast. The djx records in a linear fashion an for people who count notes you'll love it. Djx allows you to stack every effect it offers on every sound. To create a new sound which can be sampled then added to your own bank of sounds on your mpc etc. For people who want to create key groups djx can sample 1 tone then you have option on how to spread it out. Take those notes record them into your mpc bamm you got your own key group with pulling out hair try to figure what key it's in. I still today use my djx an rm1x for creating sound scape sample chop bam got my own trippy sound. The hands on part with knobs make design fun. If you are a creative manipulator the machine is timeless well not really. Honestly the sounds can be layered tuned pitched transposed right at you finger tip. Djx is a monster in the right hands. Much appreciated the video 👊👊✌.
Thanks!
As somebody who is trying to get into music and is about as knowledgeable of the topic as a rock lost in the vacuum of space I really find these videos inspiring. I'm noticing that there's a strict paradigm occurring; a daw is great if you know what you're setting out to do, but any dawless physical setup with its limitations grows creativity akin to something about monkeys and typewriters . This still doesn't mean that a midi equipped whoppie cushion is viable as the rule of garbage in garbage out still applies, but even with the badest of gear if you treat it like a tool you can hammer some nails. Sometimes just being able to start with something is less daunting than the existential dread inspiring blank screen of ableton live. Approachability is honestly one of the hardest parts of music, and I wonder if devices like the DJX are made to fill that role.
Well spoken but I would think again about the Whoopee Cushion part ruclips.net/video/wk-xphOwS90/видео.html
Check out the oldschool Bad Gear episode featuring the DJX2b ruclips.net/video/efmjwEu73u0/видео.html
and the full final track at www.patreon.com/audiopilz
THIS GUY MAKES EVERYTHING SOUND LIKE GOLD (: I love these mid - late 90s old sounds (: gives me n64/ps1 vibes (:
Thanks!
@@AudioPilz ❤️
"You're listening to Bad Gear." -- now I yearn for a 24/7 Bad Gear radio station to listen to...
Working on it ;)
There's currently a worldwide shortage of boxes to tick.
so i was doing something else during the video, but that piano in the final jam has such an iconic sound, i sincerely thought it was an classic greek pop/whitest-rap-you-ever-heard-of from my childhood, and i was like HUH?
That sound totally blew me away
It sounds quite nice. I remember bullying, scorning and mocking this keyboard users back then.
The DJX wasn't bad gear. I was... a bad person.
I wouldn't say that...
I bought one for £20 two weeks ago. Let’s hope it’s no that bad.
Great price!!!
It is not that bad. Some of the string sounds i still usable today if you use it like background pads in a metal, goth or synth/coldwave song with some effects, especially if you boost the right parts of the sound with a compressor or eq. This thing can ruin any bands badboy/girl image in 3 seconds, there is no clothing or make up to save anyone!
Bargain and you will enjoy it lots
The sampling sounds pretty cool. Lo-fi to an extent, but not in the same vein of classic 12-bit samplers. But still cool that it has its own sound.
It honestly sounds pretty good. I like a lot of these sounds and though the rhythms might be "dated," they're still actually pretty good. I could see myself having a lot of fun just with sampling alone.
That said, I'm not going to be seeking out one of these. It's interesting to a degree, but not super compelling. It sounds good, but maybe not amazing, although I can imagine a world 10 years from now where a synth like this becomes a big deal. I like a lot of it in theory but that design just seems to be more distracting than anything else. I applaud and admire anyone, including you, who uses it to make good music.
They have become quite rare (at least around here). It took me ages to find one. Maybe another good investment
Haha this is only the second piece of gear I’ve actually had ThAts been featured on your channel. I bought it new when it came out from musicians friend (I think) for around $250. I kept it until around 2007. Then sold it on eBay. I think I got about what I paid for it. But yea I agree with anything in this video. It’s a weird keyboard.
Yeah, prices are in that region again 😂
'Weird' is always great, because it's not 'mainstream'...
Wow, my school actually had this (and some other bizarre keyboards I don't remember) and I remember using it once or twice on an assignment! I lost the files to the song ages ago, but i do remember having a... *Time* with it. It was (technically) my first synthesizer too... It does sound nice though.
I think Yamaha made A LOT of money from selling DJXes to schools
This was the first keyboard I bought. I learned a lot from it. Sadly I sold it. I still miss the ugly crappy sounding synth. It was my first time learning midi. A few seconds of sample time. It blew my mind...and then I learned real music gear existed...and nostalgia makes me want it again.
You can still find them rather cheap - why not get another one?
At some point I will. Having kids put a damper in my music purchases for a long while. I'm still using a RM1X, SH-32, DX200, ER-1, EX-1 and Roland XP-30. Micro freak was my first purchase in over a decade. Thank you for responding!!! You and your channel are awesome!!!
Back in 98 I was 15 years old and I saw this keyboard in a music instruments fair in Santiago de Chile... I went twice just to play with that keyboard... For me it was the solution that I need it to make hiphop beats... At that time I was making music with an Atari computer... I even steal the instructions manual to see the functionality... The word "sampler" was like magic 🤣🤣🤣
This thing and an Atari is probably a pretty nice 90s setup for hip hop beat production
@@AudioPilz Yes, but at the end I got a compaq presario and a bunch of music software like rebirth, wavelab, acid pro, fruity loops... Good times 😁 btw I love your videos!
"Hellooooooo I'm the bad gear critic, I play it so you don't have to."
Always a pleasure!
based
Why not? ;)
More like Bassed.
Based on what?
I think the point about „bad gear“ is that very often only the UI or built-in sequencing was bad. In combination with new gear (e.g. Beatstep Pro, Digitakt) you seem to get a lot out of these old boxes, if at least the MIDI-implementation was ok and they pack at least some character (even here you can add some later).. so does that mean I need a ROMpler haha?!
So true but I was really struggling with the Beatstep Pro because the program change management is not as flexible as the one that can be found on the digitakt
The sequencer might have been rough to use, but this keyboard combined with some old freeware called "Amen" to remix drum loops was my first step into music production. Within a year I had it connected to cakewalk and moved all my sequencing to that. This has some surprisingly good sounds, and remember using the sampler constantly. Nothing but love for this thing, but also wouldn't lose any sleep replacing it with a plugin.
Cool, I have to check that freeware out
Amazing...35 minutes ago my friend told me he'd bought one for his kid to use from eBay....and I asked if AudioPilz had done one of these yet...well...
There are no coincidences ;)
@@AudioPilz Indeed...
NO, this is NOT bad gear , the DJX has awesome organ sounds , i think i still even have one somewhere i kept for the kids !
It's a nice electronic music gateway drug for kids!!!