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 ...

Huge thanks to Yamaha's synthesizer team for helping me put this video together. They gave me a ton of resources and helped me with my researches. This video wouldn't have happened without them.

That is down to the influence of a single instrument: the Yamaha DX7 synthesiser. The DX7 can lay claim to being one of the most important advances in the history of modern popular music.

A website uses AI to generate usable patches for Yamaha's classic DX7 synthesizer.

Musician and YouTuber Pierre Piscitelli, though, argues that “so many people hate this thing” for another reason - specifically, the DX7’s super-schmaltzy electric piano tone.

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Yamaha’s DX synths have been recreated many times before, but with its OPS7 plugin, Plogue might ...

The Yamaha DX7 leads off the '80s; it used FM synthesis rather than the typical approach of subtractive synthesis, resulting in bell-like tones and the snappy, percussive bass in songs like Mr ...

Yamaha’s reface collection is a set of keyboards designed to give you legendary sounds from the company’s history, squeezed into tiny portable packages. The DX is all black and moody, drawing ...