The Original Yamaha DX7 Vintage Synthesizer
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2017
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70% of all the DX7s are now in Mexico being used in Cumbia bands.
Hey... That is true hahaha I am mexican.
lol i notice that
And brian eno
MI BANDA EL MEXICANO !
Eso sí 😂😂😂
And there we were in '83, trying to make it sound like a damn piano.
I suspect some people pulled it off.
True. Though I take that over this guy doing a disservice to the DX7 by trying tap out the most uncreative genre ever: EDM
Could've been worse. They could've tried to make it sound like a synthesizer.
HAHAHAHAHAH
best comment ever my friend
lol
Actually, the DX7 can bring forth a piano sound like no other vintage synth.
I'm 15 and my dad owns a dx7 and juno-60 and I never realised how special they were until I got older, he let's me use the sounds and I love them so much.
You simply HAVE to learn music production and create some amazing 80s music :)
@@VintageFlowers Will do 😊
That’s awesome!
Yo same lmfao
dude what the fuck take ADVANTAGE of that shit
The DX7's synth chip, the YM2612, was also used in the SEGA Mega Drive (or Genesis)
Basically the big brother to the Genesis
Love it :)
That’s why when I play the Sonic the hedgehog theme on my DX, it sounds great lol
the dx7 did not have an ym2612 chip in it. its full of many separate components that make up its engine. the OPN2 and all the other single chip engines came about much later.
MAKES PERFECT SENSE NOW
No the YM2612 is based on the DX7 but the DX7 itself used many chips.
Its like how a lot of famiclones intergrated all of the NES's components onto a single chip, but the original NES itself used a lot more components
The presets in the DX-7 pretty much dominated 80s pop until the sounds became too cliche. But now they're fun again, yay!
the fun part comes when you learn how to program your own sounds , you can even give them funny names
god damn preset junkies
@@sonacphotos right, most of edm and electronic music is generic bs since everybody uses the same presets. It's almost as if somebody who learn the very basics of synthesis already has the power of pioneering a genre since everyone else is so lazy!
@@clintwestwood4545 Those who aren't lazy chose more demanding genres in the first place.
It's all about the mix though, isn't it?
Great synth i've owned mine for almost 27 years and still going strong it's been so reliable.
Wow! 27 years and still going! That's awesome!
Thanks, i have always looked after it, never dropped maybe that's helped lol.
Had the "grey matter chip" installed...now it can send and receive in 16 midi channels..and still be a DX7!
chiperta lucky...
@@Doctormix I’ve had mine for 37 years. Bought it in 1985. It’s still alive making company with a Nord Stage 3
Yamaha DX7 the legend.
Doctor Mix the new legend of the 21st century!
Jim Jones wtf!?
m1 korg d50 roland too
i came up on B-3, but i LOVED my Dx-7...i was playing it outside in the rain in a july 4th parade around '93 or '94...some water got inside and wiped out 85% of the programming...which i could not retrieve. i'm an asshole...i STILL miss that board. i use a Roland VR 700 now-which plays great- but that Yamaha really rocked...
Jim Jones lmao wtf, why'd you say that
A friend of mine saw this under development. It was two equipment racks the size of telephone booths stuffed full of circuitry that Yamaha managed to scale down into the DX7 chipset.
Brings back a lot of memories. Regret that I had to sell mine back in 2013 as I hadn't played it for a few years and needed cash. Purchased it new in 1985 and it worked flawlessly the entire time I owned it. Great video!
I just learned that this was the instrument that made the Taco Bell bell sound
Are you serious?
C-Ringe Yup! Tubular Bells was patch used for it. :)
Run for the border!
Tubular bell played at E
I figured that out on my own playing with Dexed
having a DX7 in year 1986, is like having a Montage in 2017.
Instrumentalists Jade right!? They had to be hella expensive!?
@@hayabusa5306 $1600 shipped. Most I ever paid for any musical instrument.
Dx7 i think is unknow in many countries in 2020 🤔
I literally saw it for 100 dollars used the other day 😂
@@perspective4882
I'd like to see where that is. Must be just the empty box or something.
the sounds this synth produces are incredible. That Pad at 2:00 is out of this world and makes me really longing for the 80s. Great Video!
omg, i recognize that sound from one of Toto's (Takin'in back) songs. I came here because i heard Steve Porcaro talk about ow he loved the dx7.
Amazing what complex sounds one can achieve with just frequency modulation and sine waves. The 80's owes a debt of gratitude to John Chowning at Stanford who sold his research to Yamaha who popularized the DX7
Richard Smith . Wow your response is so under informed, that it does not even deserve a response. I will simply!y leave it here for all to see.
licensed, not sold.
According to publications, Yamaha did acquire the rights to this additive synthesis technology from John Chowning.
On some level, an even deeper debt is owed to Laurens Hammond -or whomever it was that invented the Hammond Organ, which was in reality the first ever additive synthesizer.
is that cunty response necessary?
@@lennardvillasenor5151
There are multiple types of additive synthesis, for example, the Casio CZ-101 (I still have the one I purchased new in Jan.1987) uses PD (Phase Distorsion) synthesis. The DX7, DX100 (I used to own one of the latter) used FM (Frequency Modulation) synthesis which was, in fact, invented by John Chowning and licensed to Yamaha by Stanford University (employers own inventions patented by their employees). He was among the founders of the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) in Stanford's Department of Music. When I lived on the San Francisco Peninsula I attended many concerts organized by CCRMA (pronounced as "karma" ) on the Stanford Campus. There was one particularly notable concert where many of the pioneers of electronic music gathered together for one evening. One of the attendees was Leon Theremin! I kept the program but was unable to immediately lay my hands on it. I also remember seeing Tom Oberheim, Don Buchla and Max Mathews, among others.
This keyboard made 80s pop music what it is. especially the New Romantic era. absolutely essential keyboard❤️
DX7 is pure AESTHETIC
Pure cheap plastic. (Have you seen the Prophet 5, for instance?)
@@herrfriberger5 It's made of metal not plastic
Remember in the end of 1989 when my teacher at school had the DX7 and the D50 playing along with a Moog. I wanted to try them but he would not let me. It was so depressing.
Skyisnotalimit ... Wtf. What a dick.
@@nateratchet9091 Yeah I'm a Zoomer and I don't have a D-50 Synthesizer
I would have bribed him ahaha
What a lame teacher
Looks like that poor DX7 went to a early Nine Inch Nails show.. But it still works though!
Sega Genesis sounds like DX7... I love it!!!
Sega Genesis has a 4-operator FM chip so it sounds more like a DX21 ;-)
José Ángel Morente Where can i get a Sega Genesis Chip VST?
aulasdeteclado.com It's called FM Synthesis and it's pure art
It's called VOPM, old and obtuse, but it's a Genesis chip clone... Also a huge library with games patches for it is floating around, Can't remember where...
VOPM is for YM2151 - similar, but not the same. You'll want to try GENNY for a YM2612/Genesis VST. If you want to make music that will run on real hardware though, then take sometime to learn trackers and DefleMask.
I want one so badly. This is exactly the kind of thing I like.
Truly Infamous
I used to own one. So sad to say I sold it because I was homeless.
You can get one on Amazon or Ebay.
I’d rather get it off of craigslist, they’re somewhat cheaper.
I still have mine
Buy Yamaha MODX. This is basically new DX, with touchscreen, and with addition of tone generator AWM from Motif series. MODX= MOTIF+DX.
You can pick them up now for a reasonable price and the sound is still great. Don't bother with ModX it lacks a a fair amount of features compared to the montage and its keybed is terrible, which wouldn't be so bad; if you couldn't drop to lower modern offerings that cost less and have a better tonality and accessibility. Dx7 was a hassle to learn but its sonically brilliant and the bed is great. Have at it.
The Yamaha DX7 was the 1980's.
What about the roland Jupiter
@@jessieurena7583 Oberheim?
CS-80 has 80 in its name.
@Logic_Encrypted
I was surprised to find out it has no velocity.
If you close your eyes, you'll hear Tommy Wiseau talking about a DX7
djayEdT true
djayEdT Can't unhear it now
This instantly has become my favorite comment of 2018... oh. my. goodness.
Oh hai 80s
But unlike Wiseau has no clue of his profession this dude has!
Wow...I’m in awe. Such a beautiful instrument
that beat up dx7 sounds amazing
Having a DX7 would be like owning a Lamborghini Countach....
whow, so I have a Lamborghini.... I never new ;-)
Nope..... More like Owning a Supra or a Skyline GTR..
@@maegjohncareeon639 or a ford fiesta
Maeg John Careeon supra and skyline that are most famous for came out in the late 90’s funny
I remember when you could buy a used dx7 for 200 DM (~100 Euro)
You can do so much with this synth you just have to learn how to program it and it opens up new doors to new things.
2:55 my favorite part! This would make a great ringtone.
wow the dx7 sound pretty warm here... had one years ago but never could get it to sound so nice
That sound you're using at 3:59 to play Smooth Criminal sounds like the bass in the 808 State song Orbit. 👍
I don't think the DX7 sounds that dated, I have the free Dexed VST and I think it's still possible to do an entire track with the DX7 except
I prefer sampled percussion from any digital drum machine from the 80 but the TR-707 seems to work well with any synthesizer
weather you use samples or hardware. I think all the DX7's instruments actually do sound like their respective instrument.
The dx7 can make modern sounds.
Yeah, in fact the electric piano is as much a classic sound as a Rhodes now. The marimba is more realistic than modern synths IMO. Strings are also surprisingly good on the DX7, especially the DX7II.
DX7 was the first synth I bought in the mid 80's and it's the only synth I traded in when I bought a new keyboard (I'm still kicking myself for not keeping it!) Since then, I've kept every old keyboard when I've purchased a new "better" keyboard and my collection now includes a Roland D-50, Korg M1, Yamaha S90, Yamaha KX-5, Yamaha EF6 and Nord Electro 4HP.
Great demo! I've played on one of these before, years ago. I also once played on a DX7 MKII. I seem to remember preferring that one.
Um ícone 80´s clássico!!
Great! DX7 is the magic synthesizer.
I need a loop of the beginning theme! A classic castlevania theme with a twist!
Using the breath control from Yamaha is amazing to control all the great natural sounds ..i love it ..
Thank you for the love for vintage Yamaha FM synths!!! The YM 3812 FM chip is a legend for both synth and early console video games and Soundblaster PC cards. Yamaha was instrumental in bringing FM synthesis to the masses for a good price and its effects are still felt in the music industry today!!!
1:36 sounds like lonerism era tame impala 😁
The Electric Piano sound is Godlike. And Don't get me started with the Lead Sounds!!!
Is a must have!!!
Yes, E. Piano 1 is the music of Heaven! :D
You should try it with a Grey Matter E! mod
wishus knight been looking for those sounds 😢
its a mod chip you install on its expantion board.
Venom's Lair I doint know I just bought a DX7iifd for 800 bucks Its like all most new the last owner never used it came with manual and extra cartridges but I doint care for the sounds and I always wanted one know I'm thanking of selling it and get me korg n364.
This is a great video. Thanks for the upload. This is a classic! I found my Yamaha DX7 with grey matter back in 2006. I love the various patches on this synthesizer. With the grey matter installed I have a ton of patches to choose from. Take care and have a wonderful weekend. Sam.
Great demo. I own a DX7 and a DX7IIFD. I think it will take me years to unlock all their potential. FM synthesis can do almost anything you need.
Best DX7 Demonstration vid thank-you.
how did you not show off the electric piano sound? that was probably the most famous patch on the keyboard
Mike & Shannon Erickson EXACTLY!!!
Yeah hits like Human by The Human League were produced on the DX7 and even the Janet Jackson Control album. It was said in an interview by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis this is how the New Jack Swing era first emerged throughout 1986-1991
@@kyleboiko9688 used extensively in 80s Country also
@@thingserik7269 Bruce Hornsby used it in 2 of his big albums in the 80s The Way it is and Scenes from the southside
The opening of Hard Habit to Break by Chicago.
As always with anything Yamaha related... it was not easy to program but the sound is amazing.
Dom really really knows how to yield the goods with FM synths
I had one, with a breath controller (breathalizer).
IMO, FM had to be low end compressed to get the tinny character out as it produces a lot of sideband harmonics.
So, in the studio the DX-7 really rocks.
Yeah, in general, digital FM has that square-wave character if you mess with the frequency ratios too much, especially on higher frequency synths/leads. Modern VST DX-7 emulators (FM-8, Sytrus, etc.) are more ideal, as you can far more easily just filter out the high end mess you don't like with digital EQs and things like that. It is impressive how you can still synthesize completely new and unique sounds with FM even nearly 40 years after this synth became massively popular. I guess that's partly because of people's tendency to want to emulate real instruments, though.
1:36 I hear Tame Impalas Edors Toi in this 😂
Love it!
At last something different than the typical dx7 review. Awesome!
Awwhh nice memories..I hade 1 same too.Had loads of fun playing with tha one.!! I almost get tearful remenbering those times playing it.. Some of my music covers ive done with tha DX7.! also had a Juno 106 ,,and Roland.TR909 rythmachine and TR 707 drum machine. Ive miss so much the specifik sounds of the DX 7 that I bought a second DX7 many years later on..and a Drum machine and Yamaha RX 7 rythm machine.
Seth Rollins is a keyboard player. Wow!
😂
Ahhhh just opened the commentary section for this comment!!!
wait
SHOOOT
it DOES look like him!
I need one of these.
Let me just say that this Keyboard came out in 1989, I saw it at the Concert. EKV in Novi Sad then and now Sounds fantastic greetings from a fellow guitarist from Yugoslavia, the former Greater TITO JUGOALAVIA
I got one of these a few months ago! Thanks 🙏🏽 for showing the modulation trick 🔥🧨💣🎹👀.
2:55 Mario Kart
Nah sonic
@@mikepardee3083 Yeah because the Sega Genesis uses FM synthesis.
Lol!!!! Yes!
In SEGA Genesis
3:33 hear those operators oscillating via FM synthesis. You cant repeat that "original" sound today. The sound identify s the time period. Vintages 80's.
Of course you can! It's not even analog ffs! FM synthesis, which isn't even FM like in FM radio but phase modulation, is documented pretty decently. You can recreate it in software on the digital level pretty easily. The harder part would be lowpass filtering. Here's how it works simplified:
-You have a carrier wave, usually sine, but theoretically anything works
-You have a modulator wave, also whatever you want since you're doing it in software anyways
Here's how the final waveform ends up:
-You start on the first sample of the carrier wave
-You read the first modulator wave sample
-You offset the first sample by the modulator sample
Note that if the algorithm wants additive synthesis then you just mix the two samples
Rinse and repeat in whichever algorithm is used.
In Terry A. Davis words any kokujin can implement this kokujin feature
Met this guy at BBC Amplify 2017, was showcasing Yamaha's Montage line. Great player and sales rep!
Hi navboi! Dom says "hi" :-)
Shuki Levy used a DX7 in much of his 1980s cartoon soundtracks (largely for DiC and Ruby-Spears, but he also did the music for Filmation's "Masters of the Universe" shows). Such a great sound.
Man, looks like that DX7 has been through a few battles...and some scars...and won
Do you have any of the music that sounds like the vietnam sound effects in 80s movies
I loved my Wersi MK-1 Stage Performer, it was great and easy to program.
*Fun Fact:* This Synth was used on the animated movie Monsters vs. Alien
Yes but it had beats too :D
That's why I love modern elektro, it uses all these sounds again to make new music. Lazerhawk, Midnight Juggernauts, Justice, Daft Punk etc.
LEAVE THAT MODULATOR WHEEL ALONE!!!!
Yesssss!!! I agree completely!!! I hate this fucking vibrato!!!
@@MarciodiLucca you guys might have corona since you have no taste
UGH, THANK YOU! I mean vibrato in a synth patch can sound well when it's done right, but the constant abuse of the wheel, as well as trying to use it in every single sound demo gets on my nerves.
@@parasite-b9604 the hell what do you care man...He can make whatever sound he feels like making...thats music. Sorry you have such established taste lol. Which is a wimpy thing to have in music. It's like I always say, you're either hearing the music, or you're not.
@@parasite-b9604 are you literally just a guy with like 4 alt accounts that agree with each other. im starting to get those vibes
This gavd me so much more respect for my dx7 im looking forward to getting back into it
Ohhh god, that is the only instrument that can actually make me fell these childhood emotions. This is the only instrument that sounds like my childhood
Another great video!
I have a Volca FM which is almost literally a DX7 in a box, just with less polyphony. Love it. And FM synthesis in general.
Haut Strange Less polyphony, less warmth, less depth...
Sorry but the Volca FM doesn’t even touch the DX7
nice profile pic
Ooo the sound at 2:03 soooo good wish I had this synth
I wish I had A synth...
@@matteocristini6221 same
@@bruhology6437 I actually built myself one last year! Still working on it but it sounds great so far
@@matteocristini6221 finished yet?
@@tommhank. well... I finished it in 2019 as a monophonic synth, and it worked great! Then around a year later I decided to upgrade it to polyphonic and to add some features, and I ripped all the cables inside in the process. I haven't really had the time to complete it now and it's getting a little dusty, but maybe around this summer I'll be able to get back to it!
Still own one - I haven't owned another keyboard with after touch apart from this, the blowing mouthpiece was a lot of fun too.
That snippet at 4:44 is off the chain! My Band is going to have to play this live!
BEST SYNTHESIZER EVER!!!!
junito1957 word
Lol no. Montage and Kronos are synths. This is a pathetic joke.
all we understand is that the DX7 has modulation wheel
Still love that beauty. What a beautiful beast. Some great expansions 4 it as well. :D
I’m getting one for Christmas, very excited!
it's weird that every time they talk about edm sounds they talk about dubstep
Can someone tell him to keep his hand from that modulation wheel!!!!
The DX7 sounds great! I'm trying to get one for my next projects.
No wonder I love the DX7 so much, were the same age!
I like the Dx7 for it's very "dry" synthethic sound. Although i would much rather see a video about the Juno-8 on the sideXD.
Love my DX7, also have the little DX reface, which is awesome in its own way. You can swap patches w other Yamaha users around the world, so it really has no limits! However the original DX just can’t be reproduced perfectly by modern synths. No way
I will own one of these some day. I have my old Korg N5 but this is the synth I dreamed of as a kid in the 80s
In 5 days I'll get one and I'm extremely excited!!!
I remember this synth sounding a lot better.
It sounds just like my Kawaii k1 to my ears now lol.
Did you open with castlevania?
Dirk Diggler My exact thoughts.
+1! goosebumps all over.
Pontus Stensgaard you need to get out more. a lot more.
not sure how to interpret this... based on what?
Pontus Stensgaard getting goosebumps from a grown man playing what nowadays amounts to a kids keyboard.
I have a DX7 and i program the shit out of it... It can sound so damn good! I feel so lucky to own one. What a legend
Love these videos - just discovered your channel!! 👍🏻
4:19 Mr Fingers - Can You Feel It?
How did you not play the EP sound??
too young for that!
Man they realy bust our balls with that ep sound and a black singer screaming god help us
Rage against the ep
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Those strings pads are rich and beautiful
My favorite of all time for sure!
1:42 Instant Lionel Richie vibe there
Was waiting for the famous Electric Pianos, but it's not demoed. :(
I have the small dx200, great sounds too.
The synthesiser that would define the sound of most European pop music from the mid to late 1980s and heavily define the sound of modern synthwave music! :)
I didn't know a DX7 could do that a 3.20-3.30 and ive had mine for 2 years
Michael Langley I don't see how not.
This beauty is full of surprises! ;-)
2:55 sounds like mario kart
Because it is
One of my faves!
High school, 1985, several DX-7s were purchased by Santa Cruz High School. And the Computer Music class got to use them with MIDI on the Macintosh Plus.
I used to hate this synth with a passion, but over time I've learned there are good patches on this synth and there are bad ones. I still can't stand the electric piano and the Bass 1 is still grating at times, but then there are patches like the Tubular Bells or Brass that are truly outstanding.
kz1000ps I’m with you on that one. fm synthesis is bad at bass in my opinion! Maybe it’s better now. It’s been a while since I tried it!
1:44: Strings sound more convincing than Yamaha's latest CVP809 Clavinova.
_Remember when you were good and cutting edge, Yamaha???_
I have a Yamaha CLP-240 from 16 years ago and it crushes the DX7. Both are good but some things aren't designed to sound real. Most drum machines aren't supposed to sound real either. Some are but most are just supposed to sound cool and unique.
@@fixedfocusmediaofficial Indeed, but when you name a voice 'Real Strings' my instinct is that it's meant to sound like strings.
I'd love one of these to recreate the great 80s funk sound.
DX7! Still in the race!