Imagine the excellent sonic characteristics of the DX11 synthesizer or TX-81Z sound module. The V50 is the ultimate 4-Operator FM synth workstation comprising 16-note polyphony, a dual effects processor (with distortion), a large dual line, backlit LCD display, a drum machine, a 16,000 note sequencer and a 3.5in floppy drive to save your songs and voices!

The DVA function and built in voice-based pitch delay are two interesting features in this synth. It's great for percussive sounds such as short bass sounds, marimbas, clavinets, etc and should one pitch an operator really high and work with the pitch bender, one gets very cool ambient effects. It's very rare yet cheap in today's 2nd-hand market and coupled with an outboard (analog) filter it makes an unbeatable digital FM synth!

The V50 has been used by Sin.

Dennis Degler

July 18, 2012 @ 7:16 am

Bought my V50 brand new in March 1990. Career got very demanding, and after the V50 developed a fault I put it on one side, determined to fix it, and never got to it. The fault: with touch sensitivity activated the bottom note came out several times louder than any other note. Someone asked about adding a good grand piano sound: tested out Steinberg's "The Grand 3" installed on my son's PC, connected to V50 by midi. Highly recommended! I am now retired, and looking to restart repair operations. The internal battery ran out and I never saved Internal Voices to disk -anyone let me have a copy?

Wardell Brown

May 11, 2012 @ 6:41 am

I bought my V50 about 2 year ago for $50 due to a busted key and dead battery. I solder a new battery in it but did a sloppy job(2nd attempt, 1st attempt was trying to unsolder a battery in a Korg DW-8000 which I learned to unsolder from the board because, I blew the battery and part of the circuit board up!! Destroying the Korg). Anyhow, last week I Got the Broken Key repaired and a Battery holder installed!! It's like new! I've reset to voices and Midi out of my Yamaha Piano to it I like it.

KRM

April 19, 2012 @ 3:17 pm

The specifications here state that the V50 has only one LFO, but the OPZ-II chip, which the V50 is built around, contains two LFOs. I don't have my V50 with me to check but i would suspect highly that the V50 has two LFOs.

Edwin Balzan

April 13, 2012 @ 11:28 am

Finally got a Gotek USB to floppy device on mine. You also need a technician or try to buy a specific floppy cable since Yamaha had the proprietary floppy cable which is different than what computers used to have. Took some time to transfer all my old songs and synth sounds via system exclusive but now I can finally load and save sounds and songs on a USB pen drive!

Shawn

March 3, 2012 @ 11:49 pm

I have a V50. Great workstation to have. I just got it fixed due to a dead watch battery. The best part was the sounds were able to reload themselves. Just with a few clicks and I was back in business. I remember asking a music store once about getting it fixed and they said something about charging me to put the sound back into it. I'm glad I didnt.

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