Comments on: The Yamaha DX21

By: doug dixon

doug dixon — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:35:05 +0000

This was my entry into synths. I had a saturday job when I was about 15 and saved up all year to buy a DX keyboard. I didn't have the money for the DX7 which I realy wanted. I remember on Christmas eve my dad picking it up from the music shop for me. I also got a Peavey KB15 amp.
The sounds are very…….FM if that makes sence. Some realy nasty stuff but at the time it was magic!!!!!
I sold it at the begining of the 90's and relpaced it with a Roland U20.
I recently got hold of a second hand DX11 which is like four DX21s put together with touch keyboard and easy edit. It is great.
Oh yes, the good old days when synths had personalitys and not just a box of GM sounds.

By: @SynthMiK

@SynthMiK — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:26:00 +0000

The DX-21 was my first synth (together with the D-110). Never used it much, sold it 2 years ago, got it back some months ago. It has some funny digital artifacts on low pitches. Besides this – hard to program, gets boring quite fast, not too interesting sounds. Still looking for a FS1R

By: Kurt Lorenz

Kurt Lorenz — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:11:50 +0000

Yeah, I agree with dajebus. I had a Yamaha DX 100 in the late 80's, and it was crap too. But at least you could strap-it-on and sound crappy.