It's definitely a rebadged/repackaged Portasound. Yamaha-based keyboards like this were made avalible to be rebadged in the 90s, either by Yamaha themselves or by a bootleg manufacturer (I don't know which.) Either way, keyboards like this show up under all kinds of different brand names (Kawasaki, Letron, Fujitone, Fujiyama, Tristar, Angeltone, etc) but they're all Yamaha tech. Those switches and the cheesy sounds remind me of the early single-chip Portasounds like the 460/470. Yamaha made a lot of tech back then that was designed around easy modification, the same hardware was also used in the Sega Genesis and old Sound Blaster cards.
@keyhoarder
8 ай бұрын
Yamaha PSS 470/480 are FM keyboards, this one is definitely not, this sound is based on squarewave. I assume it's still some Yamaha chip with mods but It sounds like Yamaha PSS 30, 80, 100, 125, 130, series, or Yamaha Handysound HS 200/500.
@gelatinous6915
8 ай бұрын
It has FM drum sounds, my guess is it uses an FM and a square wave chip of some type . @@keyhoarder
@keyhoarder
8 ай бұрын
@@gelatinous6915 i think this drums are also made by some filtered squarewave, but i agree it sound similar to the FM drums in later keyboards from Medeli like 6A.
@jackmatthewtyson
8 ай бұрын
Found it. Letron
@gearfacts
8 ай бұрын
Yep that seems to be the consensus :) Letron.
@narenchris711
8 ай бұрын
@@gearfactsLetron, the pre-Medeli i think
@misteriosobanalise
7 ай бұрын
MC 38 is the name of the IC that is on the board, this keyboard was widely sold here in Brazil by the company CCE, which by the way no longer exists
@gearfacts
7 ай бұрын
Interesting!
@DanielOrtiz-fm5lq
8 ай бұрын
I like the asthetics. Serious,simple and up to certain point, elegant
@Alex-kk5yh
8 ай бұрын
Cool Letron Keyboard.... It sounds like a Commodore C-64 Sid Chip 😊 I think it was made by Medeli... Thank You for Sharing Mate!
@gearfacts
8 ай бұрын
You are right!
@pianokeyjoe
8 ай бұрын
In the USA there was a keyboard series named Westminister that was sold at toy stores like KB toys and Toys R US. This keyboard seems to be that same keyboard but with a more unbranded Chinese vibe.
@gearfacts
8 ай бұрын
Could be Italian, like Medeli perhaps
@dawnr8511
8 ай бұрын
It's a Letron? Emulates modified Commodore 64 sounds. There is info out there at a couple of sites and I would share except it is not secure. It's just fading into the synth abyss of little known and forgotten keyboards. Surely, one more odd synth for the GF archives.
@gearfacts
8 ай бұрын
Sure does have a C64 vibe. Shame it lacks variety in its sounds, my old Commodore 64 could do way more :)
@chrisjackson3750
8 ай бұрын
Sounds like its circuit bent from new 😂 ahead of the curve 😮, Merry Christmas to the gf family
@gearfacts
8 ай бұрын
Happy holidays!
@gabrielflorinrobciuc4331
8 ай бұрын
Hello there, I think it's a Yamaha keyboard.
@stefanimal5257
8 ай бұрын
I have one of these, surprisingly great!
@stefanimal5257
8 ай бұрын
Made a tune with it too - kzitem.info/news/bejne/27CXyYhpbnqghI4
@timothyverbist5795
8 ай бұрын
I think it's a Lethron (or is it Letron)
@gearfacts
4 ай бұрын
Most people are saying it’s Letron. Apparently it has a small cult following.
@RosalvoParadella
8 ай бұрын
Este modelo de teclado foi muito vendido no Brasil. Pela marca CCE.
@ukaszcichacz1419
8 ай бұрын
This is a Letron mc-38
@piafounetMarcoPesenti
2 ай бұрын
Auto Bass chords 3 greenish buttons were some of the fattest bass sounds I had heard at the time.
@keyhoarder
8 ай бұрын
it's not an FM, it's an digital 8-bit sounding squarewave synthesis. I think originally it was made by Medeli, common name heres in Poland for this keyboards are "Thompsonic". There were even full sized keys variant of this engine (but the older version, less sounds, rhytms and different vibrato): kzitem.info/news/bejne/qKCFznxmpIilmpg
@gearfacts
8 ай бұрын
I'm not sure what the diff between FM and 8-bit is, to be honest!
@keyhoarder
8 ай бұрын
@@gearfacts sorry i was unprecise. 8-bit could be also sampling, i meant more the character of a sound. It's digital squarewave synthesis. FM is also digital, but it's frequency modulation and base is sine wave. In a character of sounds it's quite different.
@gabo8861
12 күн бұрын
Tengo uno de esos pero lo estoy vendiendo, cuanto costaran actualmente
@gearfacts
6 күн бұрын
Give it a high price and offer postage. Collectors love it
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