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My DX7 take is this: I don't think time has made any other synth less desirable to own than the original DX7's. - Keyboard velocity maxes out at 100 and the ac
by miunau 2y ago
My DX7 take is this: I don't think time has made any other synth less desirable to own than the original DX7's.
- Keyboard velocity maxes out at 100 and the action sucks.
- Membrane buttons.
- Weighs way too much.
- Dinky 2-line screen for controlling dozens and dozens of parameters using one slider.
You can run the entire thing completely correct off of a chip the size of a fingernail these days, so there's no practical reason to own one. No wonder the prices have dunked lately. Even the FB-01 is a much better proposition, at least it only takes up half a rack.
- alfiedotwtf 2y agoNah, I’d recommend the Yamaha DX Reface for something that’s a direct DX linage but compact (or you can use a MIDI controller if you want more than 37 keys).
- alterom 2y agoSeconding the Reface DX recommendation. It makes FM programming enjoyable. I never figured Dexed or FM-7 out, even though the soft synths and the screen real estate would seem like an ideal match for FM synthesis. But no, I feel like I only started to grok FM with Reface DX.
- wazoox 2y agoYep, I really like my little reface DX, it's reasonably easy to tweak sounds, and with the help of the free reface DX editor panel ( https://refacedx.martintarenskeen.nl/ https://refacedx.martintarenskeen.nl/ ) you can load any patch for 4-op FM synth of yore (DX 9, DX 11, TX81Z) into it.
- steve1977 2y agoThe key action sucks? The FS keybed is considered one of the best synth actions by many, it’s interesting you say that. It was used in the Korg M1 and other Korg synths for example and lives on as the lead-free FSX in the Montage flagship synths of Yamaha.