ANDY WEBSTER
An advert from 1982 describes Yamaha’s Portasound Keyboard series as being like travel machines, the strapline saying “my Portasound took me from ‘London Bridge’ to Bridge Over Troubled Water’ in one afternoon.
The PSS series was released not for the specialist pro-synth enthusiast market but for the ordinary home player – a time travel machine for the common people. A constant feature found on all the keyboards throughout the series was the demo track – in essence a demo for the demos.
From the PSS-30 (1982) to the PSS-7 (1997) charts a chronological evolution of the demos.