Yamaha S08 88 Key Synthesizer Workstation Piano

Amazing Yamaha keyboard synthesizer in very good condition. All keys and buttons working flawlessly.

Yamaha describe the S08 as an 88-note weighted-action synthesizer, although this doesn't really explain what could be viewed as the baby brother of Yamaha's S80 workstation. Sonically, the S08 features over 700 bread-and-butter GM2 and XG-compatible AWM2 sample-based sounds (with the basic architecture and some waveforms culled from the S80), 64-voice polyphony and 16-part multitimbrality. The S08 also features a custom Yamaha DSP chip to provide 24-bit effects in the form of a reverb unit, chorus unit, and what Yamaha describe as a Variation effect. This can be thought of like insert effects, where the reverb and chorus are basically sends, including delay and distortion, for example.

There's also a built-in Mac and Windows-compatible USB MIDI interface, along with an onboard MIDI file player for playing files stored on a SmartMedia memory card that can be inserted directly into the S08 (see the box on the last page of this article). The back panel also has connections for headphones, stereo audio out, a foot controller and a footswitch (for the sustain pedal), MIDI In, Out and Thru ports, and a DC input for the separate power supply.