via this auction."1988) CELEBRATION OF HUNDRED YEARS HISTORY OF YAMAHA
- Programmable 6-operator x 2 (A & B) 32-algorithm digital FM tone generator (improvements include enhanced MIDI support, stereo panning, 6 envelope generators and enhanced 16-bit circuitry)
- Independent 8-parameter envelope generator for each operator
- 64-voice internal RAM memory and 64-performance memory
- Split and Layer mode
- Microtonality
- Random patch shift allowing slight pitch changes
- Fractal scaling
- Cartridge slot for ROM and RAM cartridges - different type than the original DX-7 (64 voices capacity)
- 76-key velocity and after-touch sensitive keyboard
- 40 character two line backlit display
- 32-note polyphonic stereo output (2 x 16 voices)
- Sustain footswitch, portamento footswitch, volume and modulation controllers and breath controller inputs.
- Additional slider controller
- MIDI IN/OUT/THRU terminals
- A real rarity made for collectors - limited edition(100 ), all pieces were signed and numbered.
- The instrument has steel gray colour. Wheels, buttons and sliders are gold paint. The keys glow in the dark .
- Original price was $4.000, recent price is around $6.000"
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Funny I was just talking to a friend at work about this version. because of the silver/gold coloring.
ReplyDeleteThe picture doesn't really do the "bling" justice...
how gaudy
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ReplyDeleteGood luck with that.
I saw one close for about $1000 on the bay about 2 years ago;About double what DX7 IIFD s were going for at the time.Wonder where he gets his $6000 figure.
ReplyDeleteActually I think it looks pretty cool, and I might even buy it if it had orig. DX7 key action and was under a thousand bucks.
ReplyDeleteIn other words, you might buy it if it was something different and much much cheaper..?
ReplyDeleteI'd buy it if it was Jupiter-8 going for twenty quid. But it isn't...
Regardless of the price issue it's a nice synth.The bigger keybed makes it more suitable as a controller.Wouldn't mind owning one :)
ReplyDeletegood god. the music store i worked at in the 80's was a yamaha dealer, and the rep brought one of these in for us to display for a while. it really was a seriously gaudy looking heap of plastic.
ReplyDeletethe glow-in-the-dark keys were an exceptionally nice touch.
i really can't imagine it being worth $6000 though, even though they did only make 100 of them, it's still a dx-7 for god's sake! now if bob moog had made a silver and gold minimoog, or dave smith had made a glow in the dark prophet 5, i could see collectors wanting to jump on it. but even a glow in the dark dx-7 is still the synth that makes that awful late 80's RnB electric piano sound...
not only a dx-7. it is a dx7ii. That is a different story. With poly unison features that makes the synth able to sound allso as f.eks. a roland d-50. ( more analog, Bigger , and ambient. ). The combinations endless > 6 x 2 operators. And " that awful late 80's RnB electric piano sound.." has become the sound of the 80,90.2000. and still makes up a big chunk of the sound bank of all yamaha synths today. Even Rolang has sampled/reproduced the el-pianos of the dx7 ii. I have one cennenial among 20 other analog and digital synths /drum machines, and it is still my dearest toy.
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Actually it has the same guts as a DX7IIFD.No more..No Less.
ReplyDeleteWhich is to say a bit better than a DX7.
Actualy it is 2 x a dx7. pluss dual/splitt/unison Poly/unison Mono. They came with a grey matter E card installed > a small sequenser>8 part multi timbral or split mode. But was difficult to program for moust peaplo.
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I have one, and it's purely a collectors item......Paid $400 at a local music-go-round. Even though that was a steal, it's in no way worth $6K.
ReplyDeleteand it's not a heap of plastic. It's almost all metal.
Yes but does it have the same keyboard mechanics as a "normal" DX7II? Or does the keyboard feel different?
ReplyDeleteAlso I wonder if "E!" would work on this
all i know is, if i was going to spend waay too much $$ on an fm synth from the olden days i'd go with something like this:
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holy cow. a dx-1 with a jellinghaus programmer. you get lots of knobs, 73 real wooden weighted keys, and nothing glows in the dark. sold.
of course, the only drawback is it's two dx-7s in a box and not dx-7II's so you won't be able to play that wacky harpsicord patch the IIfd had that made the 'thunk' when you lifted the keys. oh well.
Good luck finding that :) Never never land!
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