Kevin Boone writes about the Yamaha DX7, which changed everything when it turned up in the mid-1980s: "the 'Electric Piano 1' preset alone appeared in over 60% of album releases of 1986.

SYNTH WEEK 2024: The pantheon of synthesizers has its uber-successful, key instruments. Units like the Minimoog, the Prophet-5, ARP’s Odyssey and 2600, and the DX7 sit alongside many others we ...

For better or worse, this synthesizer was king in the 1980s music scene. Sure, there had been synthesizers before, but none acheived the sudden popularity of Yamaha’s DX7. “Take on Me?” ...

“I heard this drone,” he says. “An engineer, Sean Oliver, he had taken the DX7 keyboard and he had just pushed the tone ...

Since her return from a brief sojourn to outer space, Katy Perry has been brought — rather forcefully — down to earth. The ...