The Legendary DX7 Sounds - FAMOUS SONGS and Patches

Playing famous songs with original sounds of the legendary DX7 synthesizer. This Yamaha was my first major keyboard. Vintage sounds directly from the '80s.

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[hoogends]

It's still an amazing synth to this day....

[BSCOOP]

The guy who engineered the factory patches was supposedly given few days to complete the task. The synth was the first thing of it's kind to hit wide market and he didn't had any prior experience with programming FM synthesis:)

[jfwfreo]

Top Gun wouldn't be anywhere near as awesome without the amazing soundtrack and the soundtrack wouldn't exist without the mighty DX7.

[synthwizplayforya]

I lug my DX7 around still to this day. It's still reliable after all these years. Definitely is the heaviest of the 6 boards I use in live shows. I recently added the backlight and it still plays as good now as it did when I got it in 96.

[ExilesGate]

The Rhodes patch with a decent 1980s reverb unit is sublime!😎

[ExilesGate]

I've repaired so many of these & if I had to pick just one synth to keep it would be a DX-7! Its the synth I always come back to.

[jawn]

i have never been more exited for a single octave being played until 9:09

[johnsuggs]

That's when music was good, instruments where made to last. Absolutely loved this board. Changed music for the 80s

[Coowallsky]

I dedicated myself to learing how to program a DX7 and as I did the factory patches became excellent guides for discovering how to get different timbres and use that knowledge to create about anythinggelse. The only limitation was woth the early models.
It was worth the effort and although different than the subtractive syntesis I was weaned on, it changed my approach to subtractive synths for the better.

[Numpsie]

Dude, definitely know your shit! I’m a music producer and for years me and my friends would try to figure out where Scott storch got that Rhodes sound for a song called “ you should let me love you” by Mario. it played throughput the WHOLE song and we could never find out what keyboard it came from.That particular sound is literally impossible to duplicate on any other keyboard.Thanx a million!!

[myc]

"Not a Scratch on it!". Wish I could say the same. Bought my Yamaha SY77. Bought it on Reverb from L.A. California. UPS dropped it, and the I was putting up a shelf for the speakers and my carpel tunnel made me drop it on the right corner of the Synth. Scratched it more. But it works perfect.

[juno]

Toto´s Africa is from 1982 and used a GS1, a DX7 predecessor. Anyway, there was a couple of songs I never realized that were using a DX. Thanx for that. BTW, big FM fan here, with a DX7 mk1, DX5, DX100 and TX81z.

[reneotten]

I never understood the musicians who hated or hate the DX7. It was my first synth and I like it so much that I bought a second one some years ago.

[ldmantis]

I keep coming back to this video. so great. thank you for all the info!!!

[JohnBassarcticsoundstudios]

If the DX 7 did nothing but a Rhodes Piano it was going to be a smash hit. Becouse you could tuck it under arm and go. #3 as the most famous synth of all time. I bought the TX 7 sound Module in 86 I replace the backup battery on it last night. It also blew me away it came with a 10 foot
AC cord.

[SuperSy]

We Built This City, bass is noticable DX too

[mikelambert]

Tubular bells is used on Do They Know It’s Christmas, by Band Aid. Enya also uses tubular bells on a lot of her songs.

[Mtaalas]

Important thing about pedal use is to realize, that sympathetic resonance is a thing, other stings will start to vibrate if they're in resonance frequencies of the notes you're playing when you have the pedal open. This creates a completely different, more open and richer sound for everything you play and makes everything just seem so much larger than life.

It's really important to learn it to one's spine how and when to use pedal. But that's the thing, you'll start using it without thinking after a while :)

[Johnsormani]

Nobody ever talks about the breath controller that you can use as a modulation source on the dx7. I never had one but now I wish that I bought one when they were available. I still have the ax1 keytar as well from back then. Thought about selling it, but as long if I have the space for it it’s fine. Btw I think the keybed is one of the best synth keybeds ever made, especially if you compare it with anything on the market back then ( none had velocity). The esq1 keybed was the only one that came close, a few years later

[usachef]

Dx7 bass was used on Take on Me/ Aha and You Spin Me Round/Dead or Alive