YAMAHA DX11 V2 FM Synthesizer - Sound Demo

(c)2007-23 by RetroSound

YAMAHA DX11 4 OP FM Synthesizer
DX11 = V2
from the year 1988

The little brother of the Yamaha DX7 II with 4 OP
- 8 Voices
- multitimbral
- Quick Edit functions
and more

The demo video shows a few self programmed and factory sounds including the famous Lately Bass sound.

Here can you find the full playlist of the DX11 with single sound demos and one synth demo tracks. Enjoy.

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[RikMaxSpeed]

So nice to have a proper DX synth demo that doesn’t just play FM brass and bell sounds! - sound design has moved on since the late 80s!

[this_connor_guy]

The DX11/TX81Z is probably my favorite FM synth. It's so grungy. :)

[karlhaese]

my favourite synth ever! Extremely underrated to its big brother the DX7 and my 35yrs of programming custom emulations of acoustic instruments leave people astounded. Will post video soon.

[michaelmitchell]

This brings back memories, I remember looking at one of these in the shop before I bought my DX7 mk2. They had it on offer in the shop and did play around with it, I nearly bought this over the DX7 because I thought you got a lot for the money. God that was 1988 lol. Thanks for bringing this back to light. Great to see this synth again. Once again thanks for sharing this wonderful machine with us.

[DX]

Love those strings at 3:34. I can hear a kind of a choir on that tone. The DX11 is capable of many interesting sounds. Fantastic demo.

[falangistavaleroso]

I own a lot of old Yamaha's, last week I bought a DX 100 I always wanted. My fav is the FS1R

[jbognap]

I love your programming and the raw digital sounds.

[BlisterHiker]

Thanks for the demo! It reminds me how I missed more waveforms in DX7! 🙂

[kefmif]

I've got the older sister of DX11, the V50. It's got the same synth engine and can run all of the TX81Z patches, yet it's a workstation with 8 track sequencer and drum machine! Ultimate FM synth in my opinion.

[alekseikurepin]

Хорошая игрушка в умелых руках, спасибо за демо!

[retrosound]

Here can you find the full playlist of the DX11 with single sound demos and one synth demo tracks. Enjoy.

[lamberthon]

a new synth in your collection ! the DX11 is the last true pure synth of the 80's, and yes is the best 4 operator of the 80's DX TX seires you can double your polyphonie if you connect it with a other DX11 our a TX81Z the expender version of the DX11, nice DX !

[paulguy]

Thanks for sharing!

I don’t have Room or the Budget for many Hardware Synths as great as they are, but I do have Arturia’s Plugin Version of the DX-7 (V) and enjoy it!

With the Software Plugin versions you can have many Instances of the same synth on Software Instrument Tracks and the ability to automate over time their controls in a DAW like Logic, Ableton Live etc.

I am thinking though of buying a Hardware Synth though for the Hands-On experience; twisting the knobs, pushing sliders because using the mouse and clicking to assign modulations can take away the fun!

[Humanimal]

No way, I've not heard Space Gong in years! 😄❤️

[xoio]

Swings and roundabouts.... DX7 was monotimbral, had more operators, but only Sine waves. Whereas the DX11 had fewer operators, but the operators had 8 different wave forms to chose from, and it was up to 8 voice multi timbral.. Thus you could layer some complex tones on top of each other...

[micheldm]

Je l avais acheté a sa sortie fin 80, connecter à l atari pour utilisé le multis-timbral 8 voies

[Shred_The_Weapon]

That sounded so authentically like a classic analog synthesizer, I might have believed that’s what it was if I wasn’t watching the video. You could also have convinced me if you used this in a mix that I was listening to a modeled analog synthesizer from 7 years later instead of a frequency modulation one from ‘88.

There was a DX–11 synthesizer in the music department of where I went to high school in Washingtonville, New York. I always wondered how it sounded. I don’t think it was Version 2, but I can imagine there was not much of a difference from that one to this one.

[christophercassel]

Ah, ein neues Spielzeug? Deutlicher kann FM nicht klingen…. Und noch schön kompakt und clean im Design. 👍🏻

[argetech]

The Yamaha TQ-5 is this without a keyboard. It has a nice built in sequencer as well.

[rodolphepnthus]

Having owned a lot of analog synths, and sort of ignoring FM synths (because certainly of the hype thing for analog stuff in the 2000's), I discovered afterwards that in reality, I just love a thousand times more FM sounds.. 😅 Don't follow the hype, just listen for yourself 😊