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 ...

The Yamaha DX7 is one of the most iconic synthesizers that emerged in the early 1980s, and is still very popular today. That said, with even the newest of these having left the factory back in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s all because of that FM electric piano, reckons Pierre Piscitelli When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Released in 1983, Yamaha ...

The Japanese instrument maker has made compact versions of iconic keyboards from decades past, though some have questioned the use of mini keys. Yamaha says, "Try them out." Luke Westaway is a senior ...

We’re used to seeing firmware updates for synths released in the recent past, but how about one for an instrument that came to market 40 years ago? We’re talking about the DX9, a Yamaha synth that was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...