Yamaha surprised the market with dueling back-to-back synthesizer releases, the DX7 and DX1, only months apart, but the differences were massive.

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 ...

Tech Synths "To say its arrival was earth-shaking would be no exaggeration": why, 40 years on, the Yamaha DX7 was the most important release in synth history, even though it did "make your head ...

Good morning. I'm Noel King. A typical Yamaha DX7 synthesizer sells for less than $1,000. But this isn't any old DX7. It's the one Prince used on his 1984 album "Purple Rain." It's up for auction ...

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

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 ...

[Kevin] over at Simple DIY ElectroMusic Projects has released a complete DIY modular design for simulating the classic 80s Yamaha TX816 DX/FM modular digital synthesizer. This beast of a synth was … ...

Evolution of the Synth The legendary Yamaha DX7, the sound of plasticky 80s synthpop As the technology behind synths matured, it took popular culture right along with it.

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.

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 ...

Yamaha surprised the market with dueling back-to-back synthesizer releases, the DX7 and DX1, only months apart, but the differences were massive.

Yamaha, in turn, took the research and unleashed the first big digital synthesizer, the DX7, in 1983. If video killed the radio star, then Chowning killed analog. He made digital instruments possible.