[sdiy] Yamaha DXy DCO's

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In a message dated 2/18/04 3:21:11 AM, jblippard at comcast.net writes:

<< Someone else noted the lack of filters on the original DX series, but I'll 
comment here--I'm willing to bet it was a tradeoff against the amount of 
processor power available at the time.  Yamaha probably could've added 
filters but it might have doubled the price of the DX-7.  Or maybe they 
just decided there were enough ways to get filtered-sounding FM tones 
without having to do the math.
 >>

In 1983 (when the DX7 was introduced), good sounding digital filters were 
still at least another three or four years away.  I could be wrong, but I think 
the Roland D-50 (1987) was one of the first mass-produced synths to have 
reasonably decent sounding digital resonant filters (not by today's standards, but 
pretty good for then).

Mike B.