{"id":153093,"date":"2026-04-28T23:03:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T04:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/?p=153093"},"modified":"2026-04-29T19:12:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T00:12:31","slug":"vintage-synth-review-the-yamaha-dx7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2026\/04\/28\/vintage-synth-review-the-yamaha-dx7\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Synth Review: The Yamaha DX7"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Yamaha DX7: The Official Sound of the 80s\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y2dCii_hicM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>In his latest video, composer &amp; synthesist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@DavidHilowitzMusic\">David Hilowitz<\/a> offers a vintage synth review of the <strong>Yamaha DX7<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Along the way, he offers an intro t0 FM synthesis, an overview of the DX7 and his thoughts on its role in music history.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Best line: &#8220;The previous owner has loaded the upper banks with weird, experimental sounds. Or maybe the memory got corrupted &#8211; I can&#8217;t tell which!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Check it out and share your thoughts on the Yamaha DX7 in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The video offers an intro to FM synthesis, an overview of the DX7 and a look at its role in music history.\u00a0&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2026\/04\/28\/vintage-synth-review-the-yamaha-dx7\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vintage Synth Review: The Yamaha DX7<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":144437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[2230,30605,199],"class_list":["post-153093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-keyboard-synthesizers","tag-fm-synthesis","tag-keyboard-synthesizers","tag-yamaha-dx7"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/yamaha-dx7-fm-synthesizer.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153093"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153096,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153093\/revisions\/153096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}