Musicians in the 1980s had a love-hate relationship with Yamaha’s DX7 synthesizer. Its digital sound engine was unlike the analog synths that came before it, and created a unique timbre, but the thing ...

Music Tech Showcase 2021: The DX7 has claimed its rightful and prominent place in synthesizer history for a range of reasons, good and bad. On the one hand it harnessed a novel type of all-digital ...

EMAX II sampler and disks are also going under the digital hammer When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The synth is currently owned by ...

A typical synth sells for less than $1000. Prince's, which is up for auction, could fetch as much as $25,000 Synth Used By Prince In 'Purple Rain' Album Up For Sale NOEL KING, HOST: Good morning. I'm ...

Although there might have been other music produced or recorded in the 1980s, we may never know of its existence due to the cacophony of all of the various keytars, drum machines, and other ...

SYNTH WEEK 2024: After the incredible leaps in synthesizer technology that were made in the late '70s, 1980 could be regarded as the year that was the calm before the beautiful storm. There weren’t ...

Good morning. I'm Noel King. A typical Yamaha DX7 synthesizer sells for less than $1,000. But this isn't any old DX7. It's the one Prince used on his 1984 album "Purple Rain." It's up for auction, and ...

SPRINGFIELD — According to John Chowning’s bio on the Stanford University music department Web site, he’s been good for patents on “the simulation of moving sound sources and the synthesis of complex ...