Another DX7 needing keyboard work, this one the second version, the DX7 iiD. Unlike the original DX7, which is elegantly designed for servicing with a hinged panel, the DX7 iiD features a nightmarishly large array of different sizes of screws and bolts, and you have to take dozens of them out to work on it, and take all the boards out through the bottom of the synth. The bottom of it actually has a warning: “CAUTION: DO NOT REMOVE THESE SCREWS.” If only. Continue reading “Yamaha DX7 iiD (DX7 #3)”
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Yamaha DX7 and another Yamaha DX7

People disparage the DX7 because of its corny presets and not-great programming interface but it is fantastic for making crazy noise patches that seem to make no sense. Continue reading “Yamaha DX7 and another Yamaha DX7”