WHY? (was Re: [sdiy] ... Simulating a Moog) DX7

[Karl Dalen]

 --- jbv <jbv.silences at club-internet.fr> skrev: > Just a few remarks...
> 
> What features does a synth need to get some success ?
> Probably a combination of the following ones :
> 
> 1- not too cheap, otherwise it'll be considered as a toy,
> 2- not too expensive, so that it can be afforded by
> musicians other than K. Emerson & W. Carlos only,
> 3- follow the old "plug & play" rule, so that anyone
> with a minimum of musical skills can make nice sounds
> from built-in patches as soon as the gear is out of the box
> without spending 2 weeks learning the manual,
> 4- learning curve not to steep, so that the most adventurous
> users can start exploring all the possibilities,
> 5- a new palette of sounds & possibilities large enough so that
> everybody doesn't get tired of it after 2 weeks,
> 6- a way to store & reproduce sounds you like and that you
> obtained by tweaking the gear by yourself.

> I think the DX7 made it because it matched all these features.
> Furthermore, R&D probably didn't cost too much, since
> Chowning made a large part of it...

It cost a massive amount, Chowning didnt do much, Yamaha 
essentially "became" a semiconductor manufacturer at grand
scale because of FM (not only the DX but the GX etc).
Dont imagine anything else, ask Yamaha and they will tell
you what a massive investment the whole FM thing was, a
patent from Chowning dont simply make a DX7!

I remembering the first promotial paper Yammaha published
about the DX in the inner page set there was a picture of the
"discrete" DX7, it was one entire rack from floor to seeling
in heigh full up with standard logics. Impressive wiev!
This was the prottype!

KD


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