Yamaha DX7 Classic Vintage Digital Polyphonic FM Synthesizer

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Yamaha DX7 Classic Vintage Digital Polyphonic FM Synthesizer

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Yamaha DX7 Digital Programmable Algorithm Synthesizer

 

Legendary vintage polyphonic FM synthesizer. Very good condition, just a few scratches and marks. Fully working. The plastic cover from one of the sliders is missing, but it still works fine.Internal battery good (reading is 4.5 volts)Includes 2 x cartridges3-pin UK plugHeadphones not included
Collection only from Cornwall (Lostwithiel)

 

 

Description

 

 

The Yamaha DX7 is a synthesizer manufactured by the Yamaha Corporation from 1983 to 1989. It was the first commercially successful digital synthesizer and became one of the bestselling synthesizers in history, selling over 200,000 units.

In the early 1980s, the synthesizer market was dominated by analog synthesizers. Frequency modulation (FM) synthesis, a means of generating sounds digitally with different results, was developed by John Chowning at Stanford University, California. Yamaha licensed the technology to create the DX7, combining it with very-large-scale integration chips to lower manufacturing costs.

With its digital display, complex menus, and lack of conventional controls, few learned to program the DX7 in depth. However, its preset sounds became staples of 1980s pop music, used by artists including A-ha, Kenny Loggins, Kool & the Gang, Whitney Houston, Chicago, Phil Collins, Luther Vandross, and Billy Ocean. Its piano sound was particularly widely used, especially in power ballads. Producer Brian Eno mastered the programming and it was instrumental to his work in ambient music.

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Category: Musical Instruments:Pro Audio Equipment:Synthesisers and Sound Modules
Location: Lostwithiel, Cornwall