I’m not sure where in the West you - I know the Amiga was big in Europe and used a sampler - but in North America Yamaha FM synths were huge. The DX7 is all ove

I’m not sure where in the West you - I know the Amiga was big in Europe and used a sampler - but in North America Yamaha FM synths were huge. The DX7 is all over 80s pop music, the Sega Genesis had a Yamaha YM2612 in it, and most PC gamers were listening to FM synth music via Adlib and Sound Blaster cards (Yamaha OPL chips) until the mid-90s or so.