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 ...

Yamaha DX7 - The Synthesizer that Defined the '80s. Posted: May 19, 2025 | Last updated: May 19, 2025. Huge thanks to Yamaha's synthesizer team for helping me put this video together.

BUENA PARK, Calif., Oct. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Yamaha announced the new MONTAGE M synthesizer, combining next-level amazing sound, new control dimensions for dynamic expression and ...

The highlight for many will be the new AN-X engine, an attempt by Yamaha to capture the warm sound and feeling of real analogue synths. This (sort of) takes its name from the AN1x, a fondly-remembered ...

Yamaha Montage Synthesizer. by American Songwriter May 4, 2016, 4:47 pm. Yamaha Montage7 For more than 40 years, Yamaha has developed industry-leading synthesizers, from the revolutionary DX7 in ...

The immediate differentiator between the Yamaha DX1 and DX7 is price and categorization. The DX7 was a mass-market synthesizer that launched in May 1983 at a ¥230,000 MSRP (just under $1,000 U.S ...

Released in 2016, Yamaha’s Montage synth workstation has been hugely successful, finding a berth in studios and on stages around the world. The company is now calling time on the keyboard, though, by ...

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BUENA PARK, Calif., Sept. 23, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Yamaha launched major operating system (OS) updates today to three synthesizer product lines, integrating features, enhancements and ...

Yamaha bought Sequential Circuits in 1987, but by then cheaper digital synthesizers had grown more popular than analog instruments like the Prophet-5, and in 1989 Yamaha shut the company down.

Today, Yamaha announced the new MONTAGE M synthesizer, combining next-level amazing sound, new control dimensions for dynamic expression and seamless workflow integration between stage and studio. The ...