Such a nice friendly guy great demo.

Beautiful synth absolute classic. Your videos are a joy to watch and therapeutic to my ears.

Always love Brit musicians, great enthusiasm and happy energy !

I come from a soundtrack background and some of the soundtracks that featured the DX7 (in amongst either a real orchestra or a plethora of other synths) include: Friday The 13th Part 4: The Final Chapter. Killer Klowns From Outer Space Day Of The Dead Rocky IV Demons Phenomena Zombi 3 Ghostbusters Beverly Hills Cop Fletch Thief Of Hearts Top Gun Romancing The Stone (actually 5 DX7 being sequenced) They Live Halloween IV Halloween V Runaway Cat's Eye (Actually a rack of DX7s) Night Of The Creeps Runaway Train (But this may have been a DX-5 or Synclavier doing those FM tones) Chopping Mall Return Of Swamp Thing The Blob And composer Jerry Goldsmith (Who scored Runaway) had a plethora of synths that he used for his scores in the 80 and 90s and that includes the DX7 and a ton of other Yamaha gear and likely Tangerine Dream used the DX7 on some of their stuff in the 80s when they were just hoarding loads of equipment.

2:32 used to watch your videos all the time. Loved that. didn’t realize that was Level 42 until I was listening to running in the family this morning and immediately thought back to this video.

Awesome exposition, playing and enthusiasm - thank you so much for posting 🙂🙂

You’re like the bob ross of synths 👍🏼

It refreshing seeing someone genuinely enjoying themselves. Thanks!

PIANO 2!!! Thanks for showcasing this instrument so nicely with such enthusiasm and love.

I'm 62, I just gave my old DX7 and one of my DX11s to my son. :D he's having a ball.

Brings back memories of my DX7 and DX7-II Synth playing during those years when the Synths first came out. Dont have the Synths anymore but still have the SY99 big brother of FM Synthesis. take care.

Best DX7 preset sound video on KZfaq. Thank you.

Great to listen to the iconic DX7

This is the best video showing the sound of the DX7, since you managed to take some good sound for the "acoustic" piano section. Very good job on putting this and kudos for your enthusiasm. I am also married to a DX7 mk1 :) Cheers from Brazil

Thanks for sharing this extensive impression! My personal favs are 9 (grand piano), 11 (elec piano) and 13. I have a DX7 since 1987 and am trying to pick up playing again. It is pretty indestructible, still works as well as over 30 years ago. The only thing it really needs when you play it is some gain or reverb. And if you manage to use bigger speakers / woofers, a lot of these sounds really come to life.

Well presented and great audio quality. Enjoyed that!

No worries, mate. The sound is coming through with plenty of punch. Stellar video

This thing secretly wants to play Nitzer Ebb basslines!

I just bought a DX-7 last week. Added some stereo reverb with Ableton Live. H U G E .

Dude, you're awesome! I have a friend who's super into synths and just got a Roland D-50... I stumbled across your channel when looking for a good sound demo to show someone after that thing blew my mind. Love the energy you put into these videos!

The DX 7 is a real Workhorse. Nice to see that you have big fun with this great synthesizer :)

Wonderfull! Great clip Moti il

great review woody ! the DX7 still sounds brilliant ! well done ! 😎👍👍👍👍👍👍

Love these FM-sounds. Great video, and thanks for reminding me of Level 42 ! :)

Brillant démo ! Merci ;)

Great Woody! Reminds me of somewhere back in my long ago...teenage years :)

Great! Thank you for sharing 🎹🎹🎹👍👍👍Greetings from Germany, Matthias

Woody, you're making me want to dust off my DX7. I just purchased the TX816 and I'll need the DX7 to control it. I love the FM Sound. I like how clean and powerful the DX sounds. Great job! I appreciate the upload. Take care and have a wonderful week. :) Your KZfaq Friend, Sam.

It took me so long to find part 2 because it's been given a different title - was going crazy thinking it wasn't there!

I remember getting my DX7 in the early 80's (still have it, tho these days I use DEXED). It was exciting because it had presets which most, if any, others did not, and it played up to 16 notes at a time if I remember correctly. Ground breaking for the time. I had an Arp Odyssey and a Sequential Pro One leading up to the DX7. The Arp was OK, but I just loved the Pro One since I played keyboard bass and it just had a magnificent bass sound. You can imagine it paired up nicely with the DX7. Bass under the left hand on the Pro One and "other sounds" from the DX7 with the right hand. Big time stuff for then lol! Young people now have no idea what they have to work with. I'm just glad I lived long enough to get to enjoy it with you! I always love your enthusiasm Woody when you are discovering "new stuff". Reminds me a bit of myself. Speaking of "new stuff", Have you discovered the LinnStrument yet? Been around for 7 or 8 years, but I just saw one on youtube about a month ago for the first time. Immediately saw it's potential and ordered one. Oh My!! Roger Linn out did himself on this one. After Keyboards and Frets for my first 75 years or so, this will most likely get me to the promised land! The perfect controller for all these synth VST's we have today. Not to mention it affords a completely new approach in looking at things from a musical perspective. It won't of course completely replace my other instruments, but it will most of the time, especially for lead and single note instruments. I'll probably still play E. Piano 1 with my keyboard though lol!

Queen one vision!!

Thank You Very Much!!!

There are great demos. I think you should buy another DX7 and demo the rest of the cartridges too :) I've just watched these again. They're helping me get over my craving for the Reface CP. The DX7/TX7 can actually do a lot of very similar EP and clav sounds, surprisingly well.

7:18 i even remember this being used inside a pc kids game from around 2000 haha "rainbow fish"

The DX7 is one of my favourite synth. I have owned a DX7 Mk 1, a DX7S and a TX7. I am considering acquiring a TX802. I sampled my favourite sounds before I let go of the Mk 1; fortunately, most decayed to 0 so I sampled the whole length of every C and F# and looped the others. The beauty of doing that is that I can layer and/or detune the DX7 multisamples on the Roland Fantom and add effects liberally, which makes the sounds come alive. My sampled DX7 is all over some of the videos on my KZfaq channel. Great videos, by the way! Keep up the good work!

8:37 that guitar sound, and variations of it, were favoured heavily by Jan Hammer in his Miami Vice scores.

Brass 2- Wonder if Tony Banks of Genesis used that in Invisible Touch Brass 3- Howard Jones! Strings 2 is my jam! :) One of my favorite sounds. Piano sounds, diabolical indeed, but love E.Piano! Piano 2- Land of Confusion counter melody. Piano 3- Kind of sounds like an RMI piano. I love the E. Piano sound! No shame here! Second guitar patch- Probably Tony Banks used it in the mid 80s.

The piano sound at 7:18 I believe for a lot of us old timers is thee signature sound of the DX7. That sound is on the Reface which runs about $300. I bought that smallish keyboard just for that sound. It’s a classic no doubt. I run mine through a midi controller so I get the 88 keys but I’ve found the sweet spot for that sound is from middle c up to the c an octave up. Higher than that and it’s just bright chiming sounds.

Nice vid, very enjoyable

Love the Pointer Sisters riff at the beginning

Thanks for the inspiration I recently found a mint DX7

great video!

Hey Woody. Michael McDonald usually played 'What a fool believes' in a CP80.Thank you for the nice demonstration of this great synth, by the way.

Piano 2 is one of the greatest tones I’ve ever heard

You can play the entire 80's music with this toy dude!

7:18, that is the best electric piano sound ever created....

Simply...WOW!

when ever i say 'i'm not making any more music' i seem to then get loads of ideas and make better music more then ever. i remember you saying that when you were made redundant or moving (cant remember exactly) that you wouldn't be posting many vids... you've been most prolific in your postings recently ! well its nice to see i'm not the only one who does this :) good stuff. i only wish i could get as many views and subscribers !

Your channel is awesome!! =)

7:17 I just can't get enough of that sound even though the 80s were over 30 years ago.

He looks like a cool guy to hang out with

...great! I need one!!!

I think I enjoy your DX7 videos the most. I mean like really 1983 the synth is so Iconic. Plus most of the time I think of DX7 I think of Dinorodes or tinepiano. But there are so many other cool sounds.

Great demo of the sounds Woody. Just a bit of trivia as someone from the BBC. Top of the pops had a props storage of instruments of the day through the 1980s. They had a two DX7, D50, Juno 60, and Prophet 5 amongst other toys. Bands were encouraged to use the provided instruments unless their kit was a main feature - Pet Shoo Boys insisted on using their kit. But that’s why the DX7 seemed so popular amongst bands as it was the go to prop of choice with of course the brand name covered up with black gaffer tape. Aha made good use of this on the DX and got BBC props to cover up only the YAM in the logo. Thanks for all the great content. Gabe.

You can't bet the old DX7 Nice one

Thanks mac

I played along with my PC version of "Dexed" VSTi with the original cart I downloaded somewhere. Pretty close! That was fun! :)

What a great channel. Now get a memorymoog!

Howdy howdy howdy, great synth

Also often overlooked today is the quality and feel of the keyboard. I love my DX7 somewhat for the nostalgic sounds but also for the feel of the keyboard as a midi controller.

jeez mate i reckon most of humans lib by hojo used a dx7. thanks for you vid, 80s was a great time to be alive.

Really loved the Whitney H EPiano...

Might buy one soon

It's crystal clear

Great woody piano!you is wiki for dx7 !! the dx7 forever !

You had expressed some concern over the sound quality of the video. It's excellent. The ' punch ' is coming through 😎

output sounds cleaner that I would have expected from the D2A converters back then

7:52 is my favorite sound of the DX7, and it was used in 98% of Whitney Houston's songs.

The 3rd preset which is the 3rd Brass preset sounds like a synth in Home - Resonance

Nicely done. I own this synthesizer but sometimes it takes me seeing and hearing someone else play to be re-inspired. Thanks!

i just started learning the keys, what would be a good home amp or speaker to get for the dx7?

The big realization about the DX7 for me was that it sounds so similar to the Sonic the Hedgehog music. I spent ages trying to recreate Sonic sounds with various retro synth plugins, and then when I found out about this I realized it basically had them all ready-made!

I need that in my life.DX7 was used for Queens One Vision and I had to have it.

It‘s most probably a Dyno My Rhodes on ‘Saving All My Love For You’. And it sounds so much better than its DX7 clone.

good man

I still have mine !!

i would love for you to do the solo to rush subdivision, your synth come out so clean

recently found an mark I version . hev now the hoily trinity . Im happy

I love the dx 7 ep I have it programmed to my korg Triton le..

Loved it. If Alan Partridge had a radio show about synths...

that first guitar is the basis for Donald Fagen's "Trans-Island Skyway". Love the Level 42 horns, did not appreciate at the time as I became a fan later. That first horn good for Amy Grant's "Emmanuel."

Glad level 42 is getting some attention.

the wide-distorted lens!

Wooo ! :-) Sounds a bit daft, but its a long time since I heard the *original* 32 factory presets in the DX7 mk.1 - I've had mine since 1986 and those internal 32 patches have been long since replaced with all my own programs ! :-) Made me remember how... "imaginative" Yamaha were with their naming of some of those sounds - the Electric Pianos and Clavs were good, but I've never heard guitars or orchestras that sound like that !! lol Incidentally, the ROM 1 and ROM 2 cartridges were *supplied with* the keyboard, but ROMs 3 and 4 were seperate purchases (as were the RAM cartridges). ROM 1A contains backups of those original on-board 32 presets. All DX7 sounds benefit from some reverb and I run Chorus on many of them too - its pretty-much essential for making any Strings useable :-) Nice to see someone (you !) getting excited and enthused about "discovering" those DX7 sounds again, some 30 years on ! :-)

My wife and I are up in Edinburgh on holiday (We live down in Devon). I’m currently just reclining watching this video, and my wife suddenly let out a surprised gasp saying England have just scored a goal. She knows that I have ABSOLUTELY NO INTEREST in the football, and commented on my indifference, saying “But you must admit its great we’ve scored a goal”. The reason I’m commenting, is my reply to her football-centric comment was “I don’t care about the football, I’m trying to watch Woody”!!!!

That keyboard screams 80’s

I loved the korg M1.

I don't have any of those presets. The battery in my DX7 is dead and from what I understand it requires soldering to replace, which has scared me out of replacing it, so the onboard presets are gone, but the cartridge that came with it has some pretty interesting sounds. Everyone complains about programming it without using a computer, but I've never had any trouble with it. In fact, that's where the real power comes from. Once you start programming your own sounds you can get beyond the overused electric piano and bass patches of the 80s. Electric pianos that morph into a sharp synth pad, design from the ground up to get interesting effects with the mod wheel and aftertouch, once you start tweaking the operators you'll find that this synth still has a place in modern music.

This was a lot of fun. I think Yamaha was already working on that signature dx love song piano sound before the dx line came out. The earliest clavinova models had a sound that was very similar. A bit more Rhodes sounding though. I don’t have a point. Just sharing.

That piano sound defined the 80s like the Rhodes/Wurlitzer defined the 70s. But point of order: "Babe" was recorded with an actual Rhodes I believe.

Right before your eyes by America on the 7:45 sound perhaps.

They made quite a bit of progress with FM technology. By 1991, with the SY99, the Orchestral and guitar sounds were quite good and even the piano was much better. Of course, the SY99 included samples as well as FM, but even the FM-only patches seem much more realistic. Nowadays, with the Montage FM-X engine, Yamaha has taken it to a whole new level, and there are amazing FM sounds that no previous instrument of any kind could have made. Even so, disregrding realism, the DX7 still sounds punchy and pleasant today. It's a real classic. It's great that with Dexed, you can get one now literally for free.

Beautiful! Although “One Vision” strings had been recorded with an EMU-Emulator synth.

The thing about 7:17 is that the patch shown is a recreation of another instrument that came out before the dx7. That’s why it sounds like the dx7 is in songs that came before it.

Wow, subscribed after the first minute, I love your passion for these instruments!

fantastic demo but .............glad I got a better keyboard haha.thanx for the fun.

I was wondering, that if the PG-1000 can be used to program either D50 or D-05, what can be used to program, either via software, or hardware, the Yamaha DX7s. I haven't been able to find anything.

i love you woody

Does anybody know that the chimes heard in Jellybean's "The Real Thing"(before chorus and bridge parts) and Stanley Jordan's "The Lady In My Life" come from DX7?

Was there sustain pedal input and sensitive keyboard in synthesizers before 1983? Or was DX7 the first?