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YAMAHA DX7 II FD.

The keyboard is used but works perfectly. There is no case.


The keyboard comes with an original Yamaha memory card.



The Yamaha DX7 was the first almost entirely digital music keyboard based on FM synthesis (actually a phase modulation and not frequency modulation), conceived by John Chowning and marketed between 1982 and 1986, with a later version known as DX7II or DX7 mk II, equipped with floppy disk (in the FD version), between 1987 and 1989. The rack version of this instrument is called TX7.


The DX series also includes other models based on the same synthesis as the DX7. Among them: DX5 (version with 76-key keyboard), DX1 (version with keyboard with 73 weighted keys), TX816 (modular rack instrument with 8 modules, each with the features of a DX7), or TX802 (rack version and direct descendant of the DX7 mk II). At the same time, cheaper instruments such as the DX9, DX21, or TX81Z (rack version) were also produced using the same synthesis method.



The Yamaha DX7 features:


6 DCO oscillators for each of the 16 polyphony items (called operators)

1 general sinusoidal LFO

1 DCA envelope generator per voice

speed sensitivity and after-touch controlled by an additional microcontroller 6305

Speed sensitivity can be programmed linearly (like acoustic instruments) or logarithmically to suit your hearing sensitivity.

Small display with 2 lines of 16 alphanumeric characters

2 wheels for pitch and modulation

32 memory sounds for pre-programmed sounds, to which are added those on cartridge containing an EPROM 27(c)256 programmed by the instrument itself

MIDI port without the OMNI function, still not adopted at the time and with speed response with the maximum level at 99, although the MIDI limit is 127.

The 2 synthesis integrated, in the series of December 1985, are: YM2128 and YM2129, the main microcontroller is the 6303 and on the mains supply plate there is no protection against voltage variations, which is 220 V.



It is an ever-present instrument in 1980s pop music. Below you will find just a few examples of musicians, or their keyboard players, who have used it:


Al Jarreau

Alphaville

Atmosphere

Banco del Mutuo Soccorso

Beastie Boys

Bill O’Connell

Bon Jovi

Brian Eno

Carla Bissi

Chester D. Thompson from Santana

Chicago - (in the song “Hard Habit To Break” from the album Chicago 17).

Chris Ingles from Shadow Gallery

Christine McVie from Fleetwood Mac

David Paich

David Sancious

Depeche Mode

Devo

Dire Straits

Earth Wind & Fire

Eiffel 65

Electro Reverse

Enya

Fabio Badalamenti

Franco Battiato

Front 242

Geddy Lee from Rush

Gen Rosso

George Duke

Harold Faltermeyer in the song “Axel F”

Herbie Hancock

Howard Jones (especially in the first album)

Jan Hammer used the DX7 for the soundtrack of the TV series “Miami Vice”

Jean-Michel Jarre used the DX7 in his album Zoolook

Jens Johansson from Stratovarius

Joe Vannelli (for Gino Vannelli)

John Lawry from Petra

Jordan Rudess from Dream Theater

Kavinsky

Kitaro

Kim Wilde

Kool & The Gang

Kraftwerk

Les Misérables (musical)

Madonna

Magne Furuholmen from A-ha

Matia Bazar

Matt Bianco

Michael Jackson

Midge Ure

Midnight Star[1]

Mike Lindup from Level 42

Mike Post

Nine Inch Nails (used the DX7 both in studio and during live performances)

Observe & Control

Patrick Moraz from The Moody Blues

Paul Young and Adrian Lee from Mike + The Mechanics

Pet Shop Boys

Pete Bardens used the DX7 in his album Seen One Earth

Phil Collins

Philip Glass in the 2ns, 3rd and 5th Glassworks Movements

Pooh

Queen

Richard Tandy from Electric Light Orchestra

Rocco Tanica

Ryūichi Sakamoto

Scooter

Steve Porcaro

Stevie Wonder

Sting

Stock, Aitken & Waterman

Stratovarius

Sun Ra

Talking Heads

Tangerine Dream

The Cure

Thompson Twins

Tina Turner (especially in the album Private Dancer)

Tom Coster

Tony Banks from Genesis

Tony Kaye from Yes

Toto (who even collaborated on the production of a cartridge with some of their sounds)

mentioned in “Cool Dry Place” by Traveling Wilburys.

U2

Ultravox

Underworld

Van Halen

BBC Radiophonic Workshop

Startled Insects

VOCALOID, you can see in Kocchi Muite Baby’s PV that Hatsune Miku takes a Yamaha DX7

Rhianna Piper

Yes (in the 1983 album 90125, the DX7 is used profusely)

99 Posse, you can see it in the video “Cattivi Guagliuni”

Very good - Number of items: 1 - Including: Keyboard - Power supply

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