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 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 ...

The Yamaha DX7 was released in 1983, with its FM synthesis engine completely revolutionizing the electronic music world at the time. It didn’t come cheap, and still doesn’t today, but w… ...

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 ...

In 1983 it released the DX7. With it, Yamaha had discovered a “magic potion”, says Mark Vail, a synthesiser historian. The combination of digital FM technology and Yamaha’s expertise ...

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 ...

It's the 40th anniversary of the Yamaha DX7, so the ideal time to look back at its impact, legacy, and what reviewers thought of it on its ... The DX7 is going to be a winner, and I reckon would be ...

And, let’s face it, said sound is a bit of a classic, and has actually undergone something of a renaissance itself as modern producers have mined the music of the ‘80s and ‘90s for musical inspiration ...

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." ...

For better or worse, this synthesizer was king in the 1980s music scene. Sure, there had been synthesizers before, but none acheived the sudden popularity of Yamaha’s DX7. “Take on Me?&… ...