Models
12 models
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Yamaha DX7
Six-operator FM digital synthesizer
Synthesizer · Japan
Yamaha's landmark six-operator FM digital synthesizer, introduced in May 1983.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.