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 we are blessed ...

The Yamaha DX7 was released in 1983, and turned out to be one of the most popular digital synths ever created. You can pretty much name any song released in the 80's and early 90's and it likely used ...

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The DX7 runs on a Hitachi HD63B03RP CPU. Among other things, the DX7's firmware is responsible for handling user input, MIDI I/O, and processing the synth's LFO, pitch, and operator amplitude ...

THE 1980s was, by any measure, an eclectic musical decade. It was a time for kohl-eyed kids to strike poses to electro-pop and for the mullet-haired to raise a clenched fist while listening to glam ...

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 ...

Few instruments influenced the music of the 1980s as profoundly as the Yamaha DX7. Depeche Mode, New Order, Tears For Fears, Kenny Loggins, the Pet Shop Boys and Hall and Oates – all were assisted by ...

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?” “Highway to ...