Yamaha DX7 is a synthesizer manufactured by the Yamaha Corporation from 1983 to 1989.
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11 Facts About Yamaha DX7
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Yamaha DX7 was succeeded by FM synthesizers including the DX1, DX21, DX27 and DX100.
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At the time, the Japanese company Yamaha DX7 was the world's largest manufacturer of musical instruments but had little market share in the United States.
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Roland founder Ikutaro Kakehashi was interested, but met Chowning six months after Yamaha DX7 had agreed to the deal; Kakehashi later said Yamaha DX7 were the natural partners in the venture, as they had the resources to make FM synthesis commercially viable.
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The first commercial FM synthesizer was the Yamaha DX7 GS1, released in 1980, which was expensive to manufacture due to its integrated circuit chips.
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The Yamaha DX7 was the first synthesizer with a liquid-crystal display, and the first to allow users to name patches.
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Yamaha DX7 was the first commercially successful digital synthesizer and remains one of the bestselling synthesizers in history.
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At the time of release, the Yamaha DX7 was the first digital synthesizer most musicians had used.
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Yamaha DX7 shared instructions for recreating his patches in a 1987 issue of Keyboard.
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Yamaha DX7 manufactured reduced versions of the DX sound chip, such as the YM2612, for use in technologies such as the Sega Genesis game console.
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In 2015, Yamaha DX7 released an updated, smaller FM synthesizer, the Reface DX.
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