[net.music.synth] Yamaha DX-9

bottom@katadn.DEC (10/22/85)

Has anyone had a chance to try the Yamaha DX-9? I would be interested in 
a review. Thanks.

Dave Bottom
DEC Augusta Maine
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etan@tellab1.UUCP (Nate Stelton) (11/04/85)

In article <978@decwrl.UUCP> bottom@katadn.DEC writes:
>
>Has anyone had a chance to try the Yamaha DX-9? I would be interested in 
>a review. Thanks.

I heard from several reliable sources that it's a piece of crap.  I semm to
remember (someone correct me if I'm wrong), that, compared to the DX7, it has
no touch/vel-sensitive keyboard, less voices, half the algorithms, less
storage medium, but not cheap enough to make it worth it.  My wife is
shopping for a synth in the same ballpark, and is looking at the Sequential
Circuits Split-Eight (which I also heard bad things about), $499, and the
Korg DW8000, $599.  The prices are what I've seen advertised in my area.

                                -etan