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On Fri, 2010-12-31 at 16:04 +0100, Julien Claassen wrote:

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> Hello Jens!

>    Oh nothing against the EX series. I listened to a workstation comparison

> between some of its tme and the EX had sme clever technology in it. Yamaha was

> always good about that, only at this time, their samples weren't too good.

> Still physical modelling wise and in some other technical respects, I always

> thought, that they were clever machines.

>    Kindly yours

>           Julien

OT:
I marked this thread for reading next year ;).
I bought one of the first Yamaha DX7 (brown metal case), when I was

around 16 years old, today I'm 44 years old. It's my master keyboard

since that time! It had and still has got some software issues, but I

didn't switch to an upgraded version by warranty or by any other upgrade

and today I'm happy that I never did this. A friend has got a DX7 (resp.

it is 2 DX7) in a black plastic case, this machine doesn't sound as good

as an original DX7, it does nearly sound as bad as Hexter.
IMO any synths based on the DX7, e.g. DX1, TX7 etc. TXx (not DX9 etc.)

are unique. Btw. there's a book from 1984 "Yamaha DX7 Digital

Synthesizer" by Asuhiko Fukuda with some math about the DX7 AFAIR he was

the first one who emulated barking dogs etc., in the mid-nineties there

get choirs around that sound similar to sampled choirs.
And DX7 and DX7 II still have got very good keyboards. I know, today

there are some other and better keyboards for synth available, still the

DX7 keyboard is one of the good keyboards.
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