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The other factor is the sheer number of oscillators you'd need to get polyphony. The DX7 has 6 oscillators per voice. With 16 voices, that's 96 oscillators. Typ
by klodolph 5y ago
The other factor is the sheer number of oscillators you'd need to get polyphony. The DX7 has 6 oscillators per voice. With 16 voices, that's 96 oscillators. Typical polyphonic analog synthesizers have two. You occasionally see three. Polyphony is often lower. 8 voices is fairly common, but you saw smaller units... Prophet 5 was 5-voice, and Oberheim's OB-X was available in 4, 6, or 8 voice versions.
The DX7 had somewhere between 9 and 12 times as many oscillators, depending on which of those lines you compare it to.