Models

12 models

  • Black technical line drawing of a Yamaha DX7-style digital synthesizer

    Yamaha DX7

    Six-operator FM digital synthesizer

    Synthesizer · Japan

    Yamaha's landmark six-operator FM digital synthesizer, introduced in May 1983.

  • Yamaha TX81Z

    Multi-part FM tone-generator module

    Synthesizer · Japan

    A Yamaha FM tone-generator module containing the equivalent of eight four-operator FM synthesizers.

  • Yamaha DX1

    DX Series FM digital synthesizer

    Synthesizer · Japan

    A Yamaha DX Series FM digital synthesizer introduced in 1983 and part of the original DX Series lineup discussed in Yamaha's official synth history.

  • Yamaha DX11

    Synthesizer model

    Synthesizer · Japan

    The Yamaha DX11, released in 1988, is a four-operator FM synthesizer that expanded on the DX21/27/100 with more waveforms and multitimbral operation, offering versatile FM sounds in an affordable keyboard.

  • Yamaha Reface DX

    Synthesizer model

    Synthesizer · Japan

    The Yamaha Reface DX, released in 2015, is a compact synthesizer in Yamaha's Reface line that revisits FM synthesis with a four-operator engine, touch-slider control, and built-in effects in a highly portable mini-key instrument.

  • Yamaha GS-1

    Digital keyboard with FM tone generation

    Synthesizer · Japan

    A Yamaha digital keyboard released in 1981 with FM tone generation and touch-sensitive control.

  • Yamaha TG77

    Audio equipment

    Synthesizer · Japan

    The Yamaha TG77 is the rackmount tone-module version of the SY77, offering Yamaha's combined FM and sample-based (AWM) synthesis for studio use with sequencers and controllers.

  • Yamaha DX100

    FM synthesizer

    Synthesizer · Japan

    The Yamaha DX100, released in 1985, is a compact, battery-capable four-operator FM synthesizer with mini keys. Affordable and portable, its punchy FM bass sounds became popular in electronic and dance music.

  • Yamaha SY77

    Synthesizer model

    Synthesizer · Japan

    The Yamaha SY77, released in 1989, is a digital synthesizer that combined six-operator FM synthesis with sample-based (AWM) synthesis—Yamaha's 'RCM' system—plus filters and effects, offering richer, more playable sounds than the earlier DX line.

  • Yamaha DX27

    Synthesizer model

    Synthesizer · Japan

    The Yamaha DX27 is a four-operator FM synthesizer from 1985, providing affordable FM synthesis with preset and programmable voices in a full-size keyboard.

  • Elektron Digitone

    Polyphonic FM synthesizer

    Synthesizer · Sweden

    The Elektron Digitone is a compact multitimbral FM synthesizer introduced in 2018, pairing a four-operator FM engine with Elektron's parameter-locking step sequencer in a desktop format. The current Digitone II expands the instrument to sixteen voices across sixteen tracks and adds wavetable and other synthesis machines.

  • Yamaha DX21

    1985 digital FM synthesizer

    Synthesizer · Japan

    The Yamaha DX21, released in 1985, is a four-operator FM synthesizer offering two-voice multitimbral operation and a built-in chorus, bringing programmable FM synthesis to a budget-friendly keyboard.