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Was the Yamaha DX-7 ever sold in stores?

― startrekman, Monday, 30 August 2004 04:44 (twenty-one years ago)

where else would they have sold 'em?

― Savin All My Love 4 u (Savin 4ll my (heart) 4u), Monday, 30 August 2004 05:25 (twenty-one years ago)

i mean in retail stores

― startrekman02, Monday, 30 August 2004 05:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Like Sears? Not that I recall.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 30 August 2004 06:06 (twenty-one years ago)

you mean Big department stores?
they don't sell synthesizers in there.

where did you buy synthesizers back then?
music gear shops (stores) must have existed right?

― Savin All My Love 4 u (Savin 4ll my (heart) 4u), Monday, 30 August 2004 06:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, music shops in the '80s. I used to go in there when I was 13 or so and bug the clerks while I tried out every guitar on the wall. I was particularly fond of a certain dayglo orange Ibanez.

I was still less bothersome than my brother, though. He fancied himself to be a drummer.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 30 August 2004 06:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to love going to music shops to play with things like the DX-7s back in the 80s. I also coveted a Fairlight, until I found out how much the damn things cost.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 30 August 2004 06:25 (twenty-one years ago)

The DX7 was sold in music stores in the eighties, but not in non-music stores. Haven't you asked this question before?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 30 August 2004 07:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Startrekman is here to ask us a synth question every week.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 30 August 2004 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

It's like a temporal anomaly but with FM synthesis.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 30 August 2004 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Kirk: Scotty, I need more power to the oscillator!

Scotty: We're already at the max, captain, I cannae give you any more power!

Spock: Fascinating. The LFO reading is not what we'd expect for a temporal anomaly of this sort.

Kirk: Change the phase variance, Mr. Sulu. Full speed ahead.

Chekov: Keptin, I'm detecting a Moog on the sensors...it's...MASSIVE!

Kirk: Shields! SHIELDS!

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 30 August 2004 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

ha ha holy shit

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 30 August 2004 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Nick you my dawg yeahhh.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 30 August 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Alright, you guys are so smart... so what about the TR-606? Was that shit ever sold in stores?

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 30 August 2004 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Was the Yamaha DX-7 ever sold in stores?

Dunno, but apparently they bulk-shipped an assload of them to every port on the continent of Africa, thereby making a whole generation of African pop recordings sound like shit.

― Lee G (Lee G), Monday, 30 August 2004 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Holy crap, Sean, you know your synths - do you make music?

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Monday, 30 August 2004 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha, I have some guitars and stuff around, but I don't MAKE music very much any more thanks to the other demands of everyday life. Back when I was still at Brandon U, I took a few electroacoustic music courses, and got to learn a bit about the DX7 and the eMax and a big-ass Kurtzweil. (I admit that I had to do a quick refresh on my knowledge of the whole FM synthesis experience before posting, though.)

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 30 August 2004 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

my linear predictive coding says startrekman is writing a book on synthesizers.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 30 August 2004 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Kirk: Scotty, I need more power to the oscillator!
Scotty: We're already at the max, captain, I cannae give you any more power!

Spock: Fascinating. The LFO reading is not what we'd expect for a temporal anomaly of this sort.

Kirk: Change the phase variance, Mr. Sulu. Full speed ahead.

Chekov: Keptin, I'm detecting a Moog on the sensors...it's...MASSIVE!

Kirk: Shields! SHIELDS!

The Next Generation

Picard: commander data, check out the Oscillator

Data: The Oscillation unit is a 5 phased device with a power level of 200%

Picard: We must channel power to the LFO, Mr Laforge, can we do it

LaForge: Well, we must phase the power stream of the EPS taps and alter the phase of the stream to match the power of the LFO

― startrekman02, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 05:11 (twenty-one years ago)

you mean Big department stores?
they don't sell synthesizers in there.
where did you buy synthesizers back then?
music gear shops (stores) must have existed right?

-- Savin All My Love 4 u (savinallmylove4...), August 30th, 2004.

They did sell synths in department stores. Casios, Yamahas were sold

and as where i bought them, i didnt see that i was between the ages of 1 and 10 back in the 80's

― startrekman02, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 05:13 (twenty-one years ago)

but casios and yamahas made consumer keyboards. Casios pro synths came later and yamaha's pro synths were like a totally different company. What you should be looking into is the existance of this:

http://www.vintagesynth.org/roland/hs60.shtml

The Juno 106 marketed to consumers. I believe one of the alpha-junos/juno-1 was marketed under the HS title, HS meaning Home Synth? w/ a keyboard stand and speakers.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 05:57 (twenty-one years ago)

but for what it's worth, I was between 5 and 15 during the 80s. From my vague memory, there were piano shops that sold yamahas and casios and other pre-programmed keyboards that were more an outgrowth of their home organd divisions or whatever, while the professional keyboards could only be found at serious music shops.

But for consumer/pro crossover, I'm sure you know about the Realistic Moog:

http://www.vintagesynth.org/moog/mg1.shtml

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 06:05 (twenty-one years ago)

The Moog was invented by an Australian! \o/ go us!

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 06:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Dammit no, I mean the Fairlight was - Moog just gave it his blessings or something.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 06:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the default patch on those that sounds like a train.

― billstevejim, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 06:27 (twenty-one years ago)

i once went along to a pub gig/demo of a dedicated music yamaha computer in the 80's that went alongside the dx7. was a strange event now that memory comes back. have no idea of the bloke performing said demo .. but i do recall being very impressed by the sound of breaking glass. and oh to have had 2 Fairlights a la Sarm West Studios .. (was one of the big things about ZTT .. and Kate Bush i seem to recall .. having not one but 2 Fairlights)

― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 08:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Yamaha dedicated music computer = CX5m. I had one c/w sequencer software, DX7 editor etc. It was a PIECE OF SHIT. The timing on the sequencer!! OMG, I remember when I got an Atari, c/w "Pro24", and imported all my pieces into it, and when I played them back, the sounded so exciting, just because it was all actually in time!!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 09:05 (twenty-one years ago)

my yamaha portasound has died after 20 years, i am depressed. sort of thinking of taking it to a shop.

i rememebr when NIN put up the Dx-7 they used at WOodstock on Ebay. it was more intact than i would of thought & the patches all had labels for parts of songs

― kephm (kephm), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

had a casio back in the late 80's to the mid-90's it was the one that had the drum pads built in. I loved that thing....

― startrekman02, Wednesday, 1 September 2004 01:50 (twenty-one years ago)

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