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I love reading the matrixsynth blog. so many interesting articles, photos etc. I highly recommend checking it out if you haven't already.
here is the link: link
recently there was an amazing piece on the yamaha dx1 which i had never even heard of before.
taken from the matrixsynth blog:
"This is quite rare and hard to find, since they only made about 140 of this model."
"Everything about the DX1 is top shelf. It weighs 112.2 pounds (at least that's the weight listed in the owner's manual, it's very heavy), it has full length wooden keys and twice the polyphony of the Yamaha DX7 - the DX1 is 32 note polyphonic when in SINGLE MODE and features a DUAL MODE that layers the two 16 voice tone generators or a SPLIT MODE that puts a complete 16 voice polyphonic synthesizer on each half of the keyboard. This makes the DX1 one of only two of the DX series instruments to offer a full 32 notes of polyphony when using the sustain pedal and arpeggiating a large number of keys.
"Many people think that the DX1 is merely two DX7's in a big wood case or a DX5 with 73 wood keys. NOT SO. The DX1 sounds better than ANY of the DX and TX series synthesizers, I've owned them all and played them side by side, there's no comparison. I always thought that the DX1 was the most "analog sounding" and warmest of the DX series. I realized that it wasn't just my opinion or my ears, I found out that Yamaha did make the DX1 using hand-picked components for it's top of the line instrument, so IT IS DIFFERENT than ALL the other DX series synths. It's cleaner and quieter than all the others, including the DX5 that was introduced as a lighter version of this magnificent beast. All DX7 cartridges can be used with this DX1. The classic DX FM pianos have a depth unlike any DX7. Brass and string sounds are much fuller and richer sounding since the two tone generators can be detuned and this detuning is one of many programmable parameters that a single DX7 can't duplicate."
photo set: link
Very interesting stuff  wish i owned one of those.....
more can be read at the matrixsynth blog.
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Loz
This is definitely the CS80 of FM synths.. lovely beast. Of course, stupidly expensive.
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DrexonField
hehe, totally. i love the pics for this synth. i've never seen it before
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