The cheapest DX7 ever?

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The cheapest DX7 ever?

Postby gcoudert » Tue Aug 14, 2007 9:34 am

Thought I'd share this!

I picked up a Yamaha DX7 on Ebay about a month and a half ago for... ?27 (about US$54).

OK, it's not exactly in pristine cosmetic condition but it's fully working and guess what, it has a very expensive memory upgrade (Sycologic V2) which I didn't know about, which gives 4 banks of 32 sounds (instead of a single bank), and it has 16 MIDI Out channels (the DX7 only transmits on Ch. 1 normally). It can send Program Change messages 0-127, whereas the the basic model only sends 0-31. No Local On/Off though. The only annoying thing with the Mark 1 DX7 keyboard is that it does not transmit velocities beyond 118 so beware if you're thinking of getting one to use as a MIDI controller.

I just love the DX sound; I also have a TX7 expander and once owned a DX7S, which I stupidly sold.

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Postby Ole » Tue Aug 14, 2007 4:28 pm

My Dx-7 mark 2 is one of my favourite synths:) It just got that sound.
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Postby OPEN OCEAN » Wed Feb 20, 2008 2:58 pm

think its a bargain anyway..have fun...
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Postby grahams » Sat Mar 28, 2009 3:09 pm

I just picked up a second hand E4XT Ultra for 25ukp and 12ukp postage, it wasnt working, but I managed to get the psu replaced and now it is.

Cheers,

Graham
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Postby vermis_rex » Sun Mar 29, 2009 1:19 am

The thing about DX7, and other Yamaha synths, is that they're built like tanks and will last nearly forever. Part of the reason they're so inexpensive on the second-hand (or third-hand by this time... we'll just call it "the secondary market") is that they made a f**k-load of them and nearly all of them still work. Can't say the same for many other synths from 1983.
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Postby gcoudert » Sun Mar 29, 2009 11:10 am

Although the DX7 is built like a tank, the one I bought for ?27 has a big hold in the left-hand side panel, a dent in the rear panel and several scratches.

It now needs a new battery. I'm going to go down the battery holder route to avoid unsoldering the battery and soldering a new one in in future.
E-mu E4K, Yamaha P150, DX7 Mk1 with Sycologic V2 upgrade, TX7, Roland JV1080, Akai S1000 & S2800i user
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