Of all of the California synthesizer companies, Sequential is probably the most representative - and long-lasting, having ...

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 ...

The Yamaha MODX Plus synthesizers come with several key upgrades over the original MODX models, including increased polyphony, enhanced performance memory, and updated connectivity options. These ...

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 ...

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, ...