Yamaha Reface DX Part 1 - Unboxing & First impressions
I finally got the keyboard i've been dreaming of for the past year or so. The Yamaha Reface DX is of the Reface series and is a modern remake of the Yamaha DX 7, a synthesizer which was prominent in many music bands and artists of the 1980s.
I've been looking forward to this a lot not only because i've seen it in action but i've been wanting to get back into music creation on the Commodore Amiga as well as other music making applications.
In this video I do an unboxing and first impression of the Yamaha Reface DX and discover that there is a world of things to learn, hence why i've split this into a multi part mini series.
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Quoted from: http://www.musicradar.com/reviews/tec...
"FM synthesis has been experiencing something of a renaissance lately, largely due to the popularity of soft synths such as Native Instruments' FM8, Primal Audio's FM4 and Digital Suburban's Dexed.
These authentic sounding, feature rich, backwards compatible soft synths have ensured that FM synthesis has stayed relevant for modern day producers. Save for the MOD7 engine in Korg's Kronos and Nord keeping FM alive in their Lead/ Stage models, the big players (and particularly Yamaha) have largely abandoned FM in favour of sample- based synthesis.
It's a real shame, as the only thing really holding back FM synths of old (including the brilliant SY77/99 and FS1R) was the lack of hands-on control. The DX200 module went some way to putting things right but it still required a computer to get the best from it.
Fast forward to today and we have the first new DX with a keyboard since 1988's DX11! This is big news and something folks have been waiting for for a long time, but will it address the key deficiencies of old FM, in particular the lack of hands-on control?
The Reface DX is built into the same high-quality enclosure as the other Reface models. This time though, it's a browny colour like the original DX7 but the similarities stop there - this new DX has more in common with the DX100 and so it features a mini-keyboard (three octaves compared to the DX100's four) and also uses four operators (FM-speak for oscillators)."