The Yamaha DX1 & Its Successors [Retrozone] Sounds Of The 80s: Part 2
In the second instalment of this two‑part retro, Gordon Reid recalls FM s finest hour, and describes the heyday of what was perhaps the most successful family of synthesizers ever developed.
In the first part of this history of FM synthesis, last issue, I mentioned that 1982 saw Yamaha demonstrating a prototype keyboard with six‑operator equation generators that you could edit. Appearing a year before the launch of the first DX7 (covered last month), the prototype I mention was nonetheless a true DX , with all the functions and attributes we now associate with this famous family of synthesizers.