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 ...

From the '70s onward, synthesizers have been just as integral to pop music as electric guitars. Yamaha (along with a handful of other brands like Roland, Korg and Sequential) has served as an industry ...

Music Tech Showcase 2021: The DX7 has claimed its rightful and prominent place in synthesizer history for a range of reasons, good and bad. On the one hand it harnessed a novel type of all-digital ...

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 thing ...

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 release. You may not think it's the best synth of all time – ...

A nostalgic look at South African bubblegum music, the digital synthesiser that made it possible, and whether the genre still has its fingerprints on the country’s contemporary music. In the early ...

Yamaha’s v1.3 OS update for its YC series stage keyboards might be full of new features, but it turns out that many of them are inspired by instruments from the company’s past. In response to requests ...

MIDI is 30 years old and showing no signs of obsolescence. Nor is the first instrument ever to support it: the Yamaha DX7 MIDI means "Musical Instrument Digital Interface" and that's exactly what it ...

Behringer has teased a model prototype for a new hybrid synth that features a built-in CS-80 analogue filter and a drum machine. In a Facebook post made on Friday ...

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 ...

According to Music Radar, the vintage Yamaha DX7 synthesiser was played by the late icon on the classic 1984 record and its subsequent live tour. Handwritten preset labels including “Kiss LP”, “Dope ...

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 ...