Synthbits: Yamaha DX7 – The Synthesizer that Defined the 80s
From the excellent YouTube music documentarian Polyphonic comes this great video all about the legendary DX7. The sounds of the DX7 – especially the electric piano, synth basses and bell sounds – were used time and time again in hits of the 80s. With the FM Cloud Converter app those classic FM sounds not only live again but take on new life in MONTAGE with deep realtime control, powerful DSP and resonant filters. But it all started with the DX7. Check out the video below:
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Greg Spero grew up in musical family. He recalls being surrounded by music growing up around Chicago: “My musical background is a kaleidoscope of many different styles. Growing up, my dad was a keyboardist/producer for rock bands while my mom was a classical piano teacher. As I was growing up, I would hear my mom playing romantic era repertoire like Debussy, Rachmaninoff, and Chopin and her students playing baroque and classical pieces from Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven. We had a small house, and the piano was central, so wherever I was I heard what was being played. I also heard the piano exercises repeated over and over. I heard all this throughout my childhood right when I was developing speech, learning to read, write, etc. It all became part of my brain’s vocabulary! Naturally, I would sit down and try to sound out what I remembered from all the music I was growing up with. At the age of three, I started plunking out melodies, figuring things out and playing some basic coherent music on the piano.”