I while ago I had an SY-35 4 pole vector synth that combined 4 sounds together to make a patch. In a progamming mode you could get to the individual samples dry/no effects-lots of blips, beeps, and such. With that synth I could never create a decent sound from scratch because a lot of synth sounds half rely on the sample edit, and the other half on effects edit. I always had to edit an exhisting one, and even then they didn't sound good. Thing is that it was an early attempt by Yamaha to combine 2 kinds of synthesis PCM & FM on one synth. So it probably contributed in some way in the development of the Motif. The Joy stick on that synth was a great idea-isolating and mixing all 4 samples. Too bad they didn't incorporate that on the motif. With the Joystick you could really get some interesting swirling pads going epecially when used in conjunction with the mod wheel.

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Originally posted by FAEbGBD:
I just wonder if there are some nice hidden voices inside that s900 that we just can't get to. My brother had an old Yamaha something or other and I can't remember what model. But there was some weird thing we used to do with the sequencer; where we could actually skip past anything we had sequenced. There was a bunch of just random sounding stuff and there were different voices. Even a couple different styles. If you stopped the sequencer at the right spot, then just pressed the start button as if you were going to play, you could use these new styles and voices. It was the strangest thing ever, and it was so long ago that I don't remember how exactly we did it. But there were definitely other things in that keyboard that you couldn't get to in normal operation.