MATRIXSYNTH: Yamaha TX816 FM Tone Generator


Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Yamaha TX816 FM Tone Generator

via this auction

"The TX816 has 8 TF1 modules, each of which can store 32 voices."

Essentially 8 DX7s in a rack.


3 comments:

  1. Think of all the colleges that ditched their Buchlas and redid their curricula when this thing came out.

    There is no God.

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  2. This was a big deal back in 1986 when I first got into synthesizers. Not just one, but *eight* DX7s! Its list price was high four digits.

    How things change.

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  3. And yes, now I would be more likely to collect the analog instruments that predated it :)

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