The immediate differentiator between the Yamaha DX1 and DX7 is price and categorization. The DX7 was a mass-market synthesizer that launched in May 1983 at a ¥230,000 MSRP (just under $1,000 U.S ...

Kevin Boone writes about the Yamaha DX7, which changed everything when it turned up in the mid-1980s: "the 'Electric Piano 1' preset alone appeared in over 60% of album releases of 1986." It was ...

The synth is currently owned by Shane T Keller, a former Paisley Park Studios employee who worked with Prince between 1991 and 1996. Initially employed as a night receptionist, Keller worked his way ...

A typical synth sells for less than $1000. Prince's, which is up for auction, could fetch as much as $25,000. ... I'm Noel King. A typical Yamaha DX7 synthesizer sells for less than $1,000.

However, with our 'always glass half full' approach, we'd even argue that the DX7's negatives were important to its 'icon' status. The digital synths it kickstarted helped with the development of the ...

With three operators, no algorithms and a morphing filter, Pivot aims to make FM user-friendly – and you can try a Lite ...

The DX7 was a mass-market synthesizer that launched in May 1983 at a ¥230,000 MSRP (just under $1,000 U.S. at the time of release, which is almost $3,200 adjusted for inflation), while the DX1 ...

Musicians in the 1980s had a love-hate relationship with Yamaha’s DX7 synthesizer. Its digital sound engine was unlike the analog synths that came before it, and created a unique timbre, but the ...

The Korg M1 synth came out not long after the DX7 and sold millions. You can’t listen to 90s music without recognizing the M1’s iconic voices — the slap bass voice in the Seinfeld theme, ...

Dexed is a software implementation of the DX7 FM synthesizer, and MiniDexed makes use of Synth_Dexed which is an embeddable fork of that. There’s no samples involved as far as I’m aware.

Effectively, the result is a single-channel DX7 synth that plugs in via USB; or eight channels if you use the more powerful Zero 2W. [Kevin] ...