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The DX7 might be the best selling synth of all time. There's a lot of them out there.
by ecocentrik 2y ago
The DX7 might be the best selling synth of all time. There's a lot of them out there.
- Suppafly 2y ago>There's a lot of them out there. True, but everyone seems to want $500 for barely working ones and significantly more for decent ones.
- nine_k 2y agoThey are still excellent midi keyboards, in addition to an iconic synth engine. So I suspect DX7s are more widely applicable, and thus are much sought after, which keeps the prices not very low.
- TheOtherHobbes 2y agoThe keyboard may have one of the best synth actions ever made - smooth but fast, mid-weighted, not at all spongy.
- dinnerpianist 2y agoI read sometwhere that the DX7IID had corrected the original DX7's whimpy full velocity numbers delivery but found that not to tbe the case. I felt I had to use an Anatek POCKET CURVE with its dedicated DX7 compensation curve and beyond when using my IID to program the TX802 and 81Z.
- rvense 2y ago> The DX7 might be the best selling synth of all time They were, for a long time, but the figure I've seen is something like 100k for the original model. The market is so much bigger now I don't really believe it's true anymore.
- ecocentrik 2y agoThe number I'm seeing is closer to 200k in the first 3 years. It was on the market for 6 years so maybe a little more than that.
- skyyler 2y agoTrent Reznor famously destroyed dozens, if not hundreds of them while on tour. They were so commonplace people were donating theirs to NIN so he could smash them during the show. It was a whole thing. I don’t think it really moved the needle on the number out there, but it does show how ubiquitous they were.