The Yamaha AN1x Synthesizer mailing list

Op 12-6-2010 17:04, jondl_2000 schreef:

> So where's Yamaha? Are they going to follow suite? They had a period of engaging synthesizers at one point (CS1x, AN1x, CS6x, AN200/DX200, RM1x, A3000, EX5, etc.) but have since been successfully riding the workstation bandwagons. Is there any cause to believe they've something up their sleeve?

Well, you said it: 'successfully'. I've got an AN1x and a (silver) EX5, 
but I don't think they were resounding successes. The AN1x had a rather 
unattractive looking case (to avoid the word 'cheap'), and the EX5 has 
some serious implementation issues (taking 40 minutes to load 64 MB from 
SCSI is not a lot of fun). Both are super-synths, but a lot of people 
want an instrument that just works, does a lot of everything, and does 
all these things well enough.

Still, I believe that Yamaha has made the most interesting synths: DX7, 
SY99, VL1, FS1r... not the mention the GX-1 and FX-1.

- Peter