That is down to the influence of a single instrument: the Yamaha DX7 synthesiser. The DX7 can lay claim to being one of the most important advances in the history of modern popular music.

Not least because, thanks to its button and menu-based interface, it was notoriously difficult to program. Musician and YouTuber Pierre Piscitelli, though, argues that “so many people hate this thing” ...

A website uses AI to generate usable patches for Yamaha's classic DX7 synthesizer.

With that in mind, let's program a pad using Arturia ’s superb DX7 emulation, DX7 V. Learn how to make more rave sounds with the November 2018 edition of Computer Music.

Yamaha surprised the market with dueling back-to-back synthesizer releases, the DX7 and DX1, only months apart, but the differences were massive.

With the SMK-37 Pro, M-VAVE offers an affordable MIDI keyboard that impresses with its many functions. We have tried it out.

American singer-songwriter Ethel Cain has shared an ethereal new single, Nettles, which features a synth used on Angelo Badalamenti's highly influential soundtrack for Twin Peaks, David Lynch's ...