I just got the latest issue of Keyboard magazine, and they have an article on the Yamaha DX7 and FM synthesis. Of course I was only 12 years old when the DX7 was released in 1983, and I was not even aware of it at the time. But then I was not into synths back then. My first experience with the DX7 and FM was in 1989 in high school. A music teacher had a DX7, and that was my first expeirence with it. It's a cool synth, but not really my cup of tea. I owned a DX7IIFD for a year, and sold it. Mainly becuse it has no knobs and was a little too confuseding to understand.

I never new how ground breaking this synth was and how popular it became when it was introduced. I read that FM and the DX7 fell out of favor in the 1990's. But is now makeing a comeback, as well as a new interest in FM synthesis. Yamaha has made a lot of good synths, but not one that I was willing too buy. Aside from the DX7IIFD, it was paid $500.00 for it.

Anyone else have thoughts on it or ever use one?