It’s all because of that FM electric piano, reckons Pierre Piscitelli When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Released in 1983, Yamaha ...

Yamaha’s v1.3 OS update for its YC series stage keyboards might be full of new features, but it turns out that many of them are inspired by instruments from the company’s past. In response to requests ...

40 years after its release, an alternative ROM removes some of the DX9's artificial limitations When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

THE 1980s was, by any measure, an eclectic musical decade. It was a time for kohl-eyed kids to strike poses to electro-pop and for the mullet-haired to raise a clenched fist while listening to glam ...

For better or worse, this synthesizer was king in the 1980s music scene. Sure, there had been synthesizers before, but none acheived the sudden popularity of Yamaha’s DX7. “Take on Me?” “Highway to ...

As the 1970s turned into the 1980s, a significant change was taking hold in the music world in the form of the adoption of electronic instruments, namely synthesizers. Progressive rock bands like ...

The Yamaha DX7 is one of the most iconic synthesizers that emerged in the early 1980s, and is still very popular today. That said, with even the newest of these having left the factory back in 1989, ...

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 ...

The Yamaha DX7 didn’t just join the sound of the '80s, it became it. Its metallic, glassy tones were everywhere, from chart-topping pop to moody ballads and genre-defining soundtracks. As one of the ...