wiki says

"In the early 21st century, the premier TT racing bikes complete the Snaefell course at an average speed exceeding 120 mph (190 km/h). Record holders include David Jefferies who set a lap record of 127.29 mph (204.85 km/h) in 2002. This was surpassed by John McGuinness during the 2004 TT on a Yamaha R1 setting a time of 17 min 43.8 s; an average lap speed of 127.68 mph (205.48 km/h). McGuinness lowered this even further at the 2007 TT, setting a time of 17:21.99 for an average speed of 130.354 mph (209.784 km/h) becoming the first rider to break the 130 mph limit on the Snaefell Mountain circuit. The most successful rider was Joey Dunlop who won 26 times in various classes from 1977 to 2000. For 2009, the Manx government added a new event to the June race schedule. The Time Trial eXtreme Grand Prix (TTXGP) was billed as the first zero-emissions motorcycle race. While any technology could enter, as a practical matter zero emissions means electric.[34]"

I've been playing drums semi-pro for about 40 years. This kid's got chops and a good ear to boot. Very musical. I'm thinking of selling my Yamaha Recording Custom kit and getting a Whirlpool. Probably easier to haul to gigs.

Tellingly on the auto-tune front @TheSluiceGate, @LukinStone, I asked on the youtube video of this whether it was used, and they have moderation turned on... well, they haven't put up my question or an answer, yet have put up others that have come through since.

Also, there's a fan who set up a page at 'ragtube' (never heard of it before), which seems to have his old youtube channel description on it:

Mike's setup:

Martin DC-16RGTE Aura 6-string guitar, Guild F-512 12-string guitar, into Yamaha 01x into HP laptop (via firewire) running Cubase 3. Mike's vocal mic is a Neumann KMS105.

Jeff's setup:

Fender 5 string Jazz Bass (Mexico) into Universal Audio LA-610 Pre amp/compressor
Jeff's vocal mic is a Neumann KMS104.

The audio is recorded dry, then mixed in Cubase 6, using mostly UAD-2 plug-ins. No Auto-Tune is used (since people occasionally ask). The audio mix is then synced to the video in Sony Vegas. The video camera is a Canon Vixia HF100 (for the more recent HD videos)

>> ^antonye:

Looks like he outbraked himself.
It's lovely to see such very rare footage of the mating ritual of the lesser-striped Yamaha. Almost hypnotic in their twirling, they embrace in a feverish dance, spinning wildly as they lock horns. The air is electric as they tussle until, almost unnoticed, the male lets out a triumphant puff of blue smoke to signal he is finished. Finally they collapse on the floor, still panting for breath. Such graceful creatures.


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Looks like he outbraked himself.

It's lovely to see such very rare footage of the mating ritual of the lesser-striped Yamaha. Almost hypnotic in their twirling, they embrace in a feverish dance, spinning wildly as they lock horns. The air is electric as they tussle until, almost unnoticed, the male lets out a triumphant puff of blue smoke to signal he is finished. Finally they collapse on the floor, still panting for breath. Such graceful creatures.

>> ^westy:

Its a shame we dont have Humanoid robots to perform this sort of stuff yet maby another 10-20 years we will.
I'm suprized we don't have stuff close to this in western culture as in the end its all just motivated out of capitalism and its a fairly eficent reliable low cost and convenant way of making money out of music I guess gorilaz is the only thing like this in uk


There was a video floating around where they synched a humanoid robots mouth to a hatsune song, but she looked nothing like hatsune so it kinda ruined it. Also it really lacked the mouth movements needed to be a convincing singer robot.

As for why we havn't seen much of this over here, its kinda depressing but the only software doing this is yamahas Vocaloid 2 (and 1, but no one uses it now) package. Also the package and singers are predominantly japanese, with only one of them sounding any good in english. Apparently we will see a hatsune english voice pack in the near future. Also vocaloid 3 is in the works and I imagine at that point is when we may see some serious mainstream use of vocaloids.

I don't know if anyone makes that style player piano these days. Yamaha makes their Disklavier pianos. But I think if I was to invest into a nice grand piano, I would want to get a Bösendorfer CEUS system... heck just a Bösendorfer itself would be grand... Although in the CEUS system at least, I think somebody actually needs to sit down and play it first for it to be recorded.

>> ^MilkmanDan:

I want to see this on one of those player pianos with the holes-in-paper feeding...
Edit: Then again, there might be more hole than paper there near the finale.

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Don't forget to vote for this one too:

http://videosift.com/video/Crazy-Russian-Commute-Yamaha-R1

Indeed. By the end I was kinda hoping someone would open up their car door.>> ^robbersdog49:

What a cock.

Her name is Claire Huangci, and she is either 19 or 20 yrs old, depending on which source is correct:

http://www.karstenwitt.com/en/artist/claire_huangci/biography/
http://www.yamaha.com/yamahavgn/CDA/ContentDetail/PressReleaseDetail.html?CNTID=5105394&CTID=560001

The future looks pretty damn bright for her, I must say.

same same....this ain't the site to push the envelope with regard to what is universally appropriate for users here...given the rabble-I treat news like some prohibitionist, closet lesbian in 1925, go figger!?!

Personally???...I like the chick that rides the Yamaha around the farm in the film, Vanishing Point-She could take or leave a bike or man, and is there to show you all how to chill and have a great time, regardless of yer current state of mind/dilemma...All she needs is gas and drugs...a, kindred-spirit if you will....(foods a drug too, baby, eat a few more helpings of mashed potatoes!)

David is about to reach 1,000,000 hits on his Yamaha Studio Kit

First, let me say that I'm sick and tired of the crowd that says, "since I can't do it, it must be fake." So I'm going to take this time to give you all a reason to shut the hell up.

Now that we have that out of the way, let's get some information in here to stop all the speculation. The instrument in question is more than capable of producing the sounds you hear. It is called a Yamaha Electone STAGEA ELS-01X electronic organ. The STAGEA features over 180 digital effects with the ability to add in rhythm and accompaniment.

If you want to hear what it is capable of in the hands of a virtuoso, check out Qi Zhang's performance at TED. I'm pretty sure they can't get away with any camera trickery there.

You timeshifting morons. She's playing with her feet too.
http://www.cameratim.com/reviews/audio/yamaha-d30-organ/images/yamaha-d30-organ.jpeg