[uuddlrlrbaba]

The DX7 is an incredible synth, but one of the joys of playing is hearing the sound change to your adjustments and the DX7 just doesn't do that. But it is great fun to feed through filter, delay and reverb pedals. Thats kind of the best of both worlds

[fsckboy]

just for the audience, the DX7 used a newly invented type of synthesis (FM but that doesn't tell you or anybody else anything) and it was alone among synths at the time to produce metallic, brass, bell, etc. sounds. Performers flocked to it to get away from the same old analog synth sound everybody else had. FM synths are programmable, but not easily, and the menu diving was not practical while playing.

Analog (subtractive) synths are very much back in popularity right now and they offer lots of knobs to give bwahgrrrssshhhhwow type transformations

[alterom]

>The DX7 is an incredible synth, but one of the joys of playing is hearing the sound change to your adjustments and the DX7 just doesn't do that

...but Yamaha Reface DX does.

I've been changing the sound while playing the synth to go from the ePiano preset to an aggressive synth lead as a demo of that interface.

It's pure joy, and an underrated piece of hardware.

[surfingdino]

It's even better with the Dtronics expander, but still too much faff for me.

[alterom]

Thanks, I didn't know about it - and it seems like an awesome addition to the machine!