{"id":2854,"date":"2025-08-05T18:57:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T22:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/syner-g.no-ip.biz\/mymusic\/?p=2854"},"modified":"2025-08-05T20:29:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T00:29:36","slug":"fb-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/syner-g.no-ip.biz\/mymusic\/fb-01\/","title":{"rendered":"FB-01 Sound Module"},"content":{"rendered":"

August 5, 2025<\/p>\n

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I’ve had this module a long time. \u00a0I actually picked it up in Pennsylvania while I was on a playing gig as a very young man back in 1986. \u00a0Back then I had worked for 2 weeks and I basically gave up almost all that pay to purchase this module.\u00a0 I then used it in a lot of the songs that I recorded on my Yamaha 4-track cassette recorder.<\/p>\n

Fun facts: \u00a0It was only made for 2 years (1986-1987). The Yamaha FB-01 is a digital FM sound module, known for its eight-part multi-timbrality and use of the YM2164 FM chip. \u00a0At the time it was the top of the line, taken from the famous Yamaha DX-100 line.<\/p>\n

\"Yamaha<\/p>\n

Today it is legacy, vintage… its old<\/strong>, yet some of the sounds are still fun.<\/p>\n

After sitting on my music shelf for a few years, I decided to pull it out and hook it up, but with a twist. \u00a0This is a MIDI device and I dedicated a fader channel to it on my Mackie 1640i. \u00a0On the MIDI side I connected a CME Widi Jack to it, so suddenly it had a wireless MIDI connection… but to what?<\/p>\n

\"CME<\/p>\n

Well, it first connects to my iPad (to MidiWrench, where it echos all MIDI signals back and forth), and at the other end, I had my FR-8X ready to send it the signals to trigger it all, again from a wireless MIDI transmitter. \u00a0I chose channel one on the FB-01 and with nothing more other than raising the gain and channel fader on the Mackie mixer, I had the sounds of this old FB-01 coming through my speakers!<\/p>\n

It will make a nice addition in terms of different sounds as I make my multitracks in the future, should I wish.<\/p>\n

As I was playing and testing it, I noticed that the 8X sent it’s usual MIDI volume changes thanks to the aftertouch feature… I did not like nor want this feature, so I disabled the 8X’s ability to send MIDI expression code and raised the output value to 127 (maximum) on the FB-01. \u00a0I’ll control volume via the DAW in post processing.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Here is a song that I recorded back in 1986 on my Elkavox, Programmer 24 and the Fb-01.\u00a0 The song is called “You Don’t Have to Say you Love Me”… those are some nice sounds!<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/syner-g.no-ip.biz\/mymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Believe-Me-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n

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