Of all of the California synthesizer companies, Sequential is probably the most representative - and long-lasting, having come back officially in 2015 when Yamaha, who had bought the company in 1987, ...

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.

Aphex Twin's Rare Yamaha GX 1 Synth Starts at $125,000 USD: The historic piece of equipment was one of the most advanced professional synthesizers when it was made in 1975.

A rare, vintage Yamaha GX-1 synthesiser owned by Aphex Twin is currently up for auction.. Currently available to bid on via auction site VEMIA, the iconic instrument currently has a starting price of ...

By the end of the decade, the first synthesizer became available for under $1,000—the humble Korg 700S—ushering in a new wave of Japanese efforts that flooded the synth market, including the patchable ...

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 ...

This synth was to music what the film Tron was to cinema at the time.” The “digital edge” would, by the end of the 1980s, fatigue synth artists bemoaning the hollow artifice wrought by digital ...

Digital synths from companies like Yamaha were too much for Moog and the company declared bankruptcy in 1987. But by 2002, people looked back at Moog’s synths with appropriate nostalgia and Moog ...

Yamaha's motor vehicle and audio divisions went separate ways years ago. ... with the introduction of Yamaha's legendary line of synthesizers. 1983's DX7 was the best-selling synth in the world, ...

Not to mention mass-market classics like the Yamaha DX7 and Casio CZ-101. Plus Arturia's Pigments and Augmented lineup, which marry orchestral, piano, and vocal samples with a robust synth engine.