There's also an important distinction between electronic musicians that enjoy diving into sound design and keyboardists who just want a typical stock sound. Tod

There's also an important distinction between electronic musicians that enjoy diving into sound design and keyboardists who just want a typical stock sound. Today, most synthesizers and keyboards usually clearly cater to one of these audiences, with analog synths created for the former and workstations like Korg Kronos for former. However, DX7 works as both – it was both used as a source of very innovative sounds, as well as a simple preset-driven keyboard for many, many pop musicians who seemed to never have used anything but built-in presets.