Bad Gear - Yamaha SU10 Sampling Unit - Too LoFi???

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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 Yamaha SU10 Sampling Unit. Is it too lo-fi???

[roterodamus]

That "Lo-fi af slightly off the grid wonky dystopian" beat is fire!

[DjNikGnashers]

This is RAD GEAR not bad.
I had one in the late 90's, it was brilliant, and I used to sample old ladies chatting on the bus, and make tunes on the spot in headphones.
It was genuinely great.

[z.verdadero]

playing on top of a volcano is a total mood. i'm with björk here.
also i think that lo-fi af slightly off the grid wonky distopian hip hop instrumental is my new favourite musical genre

[ChainsawRosary]

It looks like the kind of thing you'd find in a pawn shop with the wrong cables and a mystery crust on the corners of the screen.

[Halfpipesaur]

"Look son, this is how Volca Sample looked like when I was your age"

[wellurban]

The fact that Björk used it as a sketch pad for ideas when working on Homogenic is enough on it’s own for this to deserve a place in music history.

[JamesParatiiArts]

I love my SU -10! i bought one in 1999 and i still have it, I have made about 3 albums of music with it, Hip Hop and evil distorted Jungle (all between 99-2003). I used to trigger the samples by hand and record to minidisc, jamming the tune until i had great sections and then chop up sections on the minidisc edtor function I shit you not! that is how i made 3 records! all on batteries ! amazing!

[ni-mod]

New bad gear vid - another not bad friday evening

[meretrix]

It's criminal that this channel doesn't already have a million subs

[mitchellborne]

That Lo-Fi AF Slightly Off The Grid Wonky Dystopian jam was crunchy as chips. Id listen to that on my free time.

[CaptainAlbatross]

Can we all just take a moment to appreciate the awesome video-editing that goes into these video's? Great stuff again, those tracks are ganz super!

[chikinfrydsteak]

Honestly this thing looks fucking dope. I want one. Yamaha (or some clone maker like Behringer) should remake this with the same interface and updated internals. Fix a few of the limitations and re-release it

[fisk]

Fun fact, the Yamaha SU/QY line of this era is the exact same form factor as Korg's Volca line, so they fit perfectly in a Volca stand along with other Volcas. Only issue is that the ports are on the "top"/back instead of the face, so in some stands, like the official Sequenz Volca stands, you can only place them in the upmost row, as the others block the MIDI and audio jacks.

[HazyJ]

"only" 10k views and over 500 comments. That's how you know your content absolutely slaps. YouTube would be a much shittier place without you, and I appreciate the time you take to make this dope content. Thank you.

[TheMagicStatic]

Great video! This was my first sampler. I didn't care much about sound quality at the time, I was recording on a cassette 4-track. There was a record store in my area that was getting rid of all their vinyl stock, 5 for 1 dollar and I bought so much just cheesy random stuff, specifically for sampling. I had so much fun. I'll always love this sampler.

[vinylarchaeologist]

How little this show has changed in 2 years. It‘s all here already, the concept, the structure, the execution. Wonderfully timeless, I‘d say!

[NeverToBeSeenAgain]

this thing is honestly my favorite sampler. If there was a modern version with the same workflow, the ability to save and load projects, and about double the sample memory per project, I would be all over that. Model:Samples is the closest thing.

[finebalance]

This was my first sampler which I bought at the end of 1997. I remember how liberating it was for me to to finally be able to incorporate sound form the outside world into my music. These were the first truly afforable samplers. Before the mid nineties samplers were horrendously expemsive, even second hand ones.

These units were among the first samplers to use flash RAM so samples stayed in memory after powering the unit down, which was just as well because saving samples over MIDI SDS was very slow and pretty much impossible. I used to just save my sampes as audio files on cassette and sample them back in when I needed them, it was much easier!

[solidkeys]

"Too lo-fi?"
Only makes me like samplers more. The trashier the sound, the better

[pdm]

Pretty sure I saw Bjork using one of these live - think it was a Gilles Peterson curated multi-artist show. I was in the crowd stood next to a woman with a hoodie and backpack. At a point in proceedings she nonchalantly walked to the stage and got on up, revealed her identity and pulled out this little sampler from her backpack, plugged in and knocked out a couple of sparse, glitchy and haunting numbers.