Subject: Re: [vintage] electronic keyboard for sale
From: Kevin Austin (kevin.austin@videotron.ca)
Date: Tue Aug 21 2007 - 17:54:35 EDT
And for some (less than usual, and pure only) DX-7 sounds, look up
DX-tures on Sonus.ca.
Best
Kevin
At 10:15 PM +0100 8/21/07, lawrence casserley wrote:
>Ah the DX1 - wonderful machine - we had one at the Royal College of
>Music in London - it was much more transparent than the DX7 - you
>could see everything on the displays - made it much easier to get
>into the internal workings of FM synthesis - great for teaching. Of
>course the DX7 was "easier" and more popular precisely because it
>didn't do this, although you could do it all if you knew how to get
>behind the dashboard - with the DX1 it was all there to see.
>
>I never used a DX5 though. Good luck with the sale.
>
>Best
>
>L
>
>On 21 Aug 2007, at 20:49, alcides lanza wrote:
>
>>The DX5 had already two synths, and a 76 keys keyboard. Yamaha did
>>it as a less expensive copy of the first, and very expensive, DX 1
>>[10,000$]. The DX1 was released quite a few years before the DX7.
>>[...really, how many of us did know about the existence of the DX1?]
>>
>
>Lawrence Casserley -
><mailto:lawrence@lcasserley.co.uk>lawrence@lcasserley.co.uk
>Lawrence Electronic Operations -
><http://www.lcasserley.co.uk>www.lcasserley.co.uk
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