[HAM] About DX7's:

[Linda Dachtyl]

Icicles to my ear drums.

Plus I understand subtractive and additive synthesis, but editing a  
DX-7 gave me nightmares. FM is not an easy, intuitive way to build  
patches......at least not for me.
Once I wanted to do something simple like smooth out an attack  
transient on a string patch and I just gave up on it. after fooling  
with it for about an hour without a manual. Got nowhere at all with it.
I played in a band that owned one. Wasn't mine.

As an alternate sound, it's OK. However, in the 80's you were almost  
forced to play that Rhodes sound and the horrible harmonica on Tina  
Turner's "What's Love Got to Do With It?". The Juno 106 was the warm  
mate to that synth or that 8 bit sampler...don't recall the name  
offhand. Ensoniq Mirage? I think that's what it was.

I bought my first "80's synth" after catching up on post-college  
bills. It was a Kawai K-3. One of the thickest sine/square/sawtooth  
wave things I had heard concerning digital up to that time and you  
were able to program some Hammondish sounds in the additive bank. It  
was the first synth I played that had the power of the Minimoog, IMO.  
I still have it and until I bought a Yamaha AN1X  in the late '90's,  
it was my "stable pitched Minimoog" for gigs.

I was Amish from about '82 till the time I bought the Kawai....as in  
"separate from the world". ;-)

I was also broke most of the time concerning buying frills and I had  
what I had and worked often in spite of all the band guys complaining  
about the weight of my Rhodes, my Crumar T drawbar keyboard, and  
Crumar Performer...plus a suitcase full of stomp boxes.

Sold both of the Crumars. Other than that, I have never sold a  
keyboard. Save for the Lowery:-)

Linda

On Jun 14, 2007, at 1:56 PM, Luther Nallie wrote:

> What does everybody hate about a DX7?  I have a DX7-2 and it is my  
> favorite keyboard (after my B3 of course).  I can get some nice  
> layered sounds out of it and no weighted keys.  I also have a  
> Roland XV88 and it has some nice sounds but the weighted keys are  
> really a struggle after getting used to the touch of a B3 and (I'm  
> ducking) a DX7-2.
>
>   So, fire awayyyyyyyy....
>   Luther
>